WHAP Era 1

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Across
  1. 4. The systematic dominance of men over women in households and society, which intensified with agrarian, settled life.
  2. 6. Ranking of people (elites, priests, merchants, artisans, peasants, slaves) that developed as civilizations grew.
  3. 7. A small group holding high social, economic, or political status, often owning land or managing resources in early civilizations.
  4. 9. Characterized by small, mobile foraging bands with relatively egalitarian social structures.
  5. 11. A settled society with agriculture, food surpluses, and social stratification.
  6. 12. Revolution The shift to sedentary agriculture (c. 8000–5000 BCE), causing population growth, sedentary living, and labor specialization.
Down
  1. 1. The shift to sedentary agriculture (c. 8000–5000 BCE), causing population growth, sedentary living, and labor specialization.
  2. 2. a devastating global pandemic of bubonic plague that peaked in Europe and Asia from 1347 to 1351, killing over 20–25 million people
  3. 3. Groups Extended family units that were the primary social structure in foraging and early agricultural societies.
  4. 5. The development of cities, which created new social interactions and concentrated specialized workers.
  5. 8. Exploitation of coerced labor, a key feature in many early social hierarchies.
  6. 10. A nomadic lifestyle based on herding, which created distinct nomadic social structures often in conflict with sedentary societies.
  7. 11. System The division of society into distinct tiers based on wealth, birth, or function.