WHI Vocab #1 - Learning Contract
Across
- 2. relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed
- 4. the period of time before written records
- 7. member of a people having no permanent abode
- 10. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest
- 11. a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple
- 15. the critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture
- 17. a multi-generational relationship between humans and other organisms, in which humans take control over their reproduction and care to have a steady supply of the organisms' resources.
- 19. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets
- 20. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code
Down
- 1. a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia
- 3. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase
- 5. type of subsistence lifestyle that relies on hunting and fishing animals and foraging for wild vegetation
- 6. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand
- 8. the most common and widespread species of primate
- 9. a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England
- 12. the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
- 13. relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used
- 14. the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
- 16. an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached
- 18. a person who copies documents