World History Vocabulary Crossword
Across
- 5. Living in a single place
- 8. Groups maintaining leadership over societies
- 9. A small, settled community
- 10. Study of past events
- 11. Region of the oldest civilizations
- 12. Populated society with complex characteristics
- 13. Large society relying on farming
- 14. Humans breeding to cultivate characteristics
- 19. Time period centered on agriculture
- 21. Wild maize; ancestor of corn
- 22. Exploiting domesticated animals to live
- 24. Exploiting domesticated animals to live
- 25. A major, ancient Sumerian city
Down
- 1. Taming organisms with artificial selection
- 2. One territory occupied by another
- 3. Control of water for agriculture
- 4. Mesopotamian site of agrarian civilizations
- 6. Large structures in agrarian civilizations
- 7. Study of Earth's geological features
- 15. A major, ancient Sumerian city
- 16. Large social and trade center
- 17. Food overproduction; developed specialized positions
- 18. Heavily-populated, regionally organized society
- 20. Cold time period on earth
- 23. World's first writing system; Mesopotamian