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- 3. The transition of human society from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to settled agriculture and domestication of animals
- 5. (in ancient Mesopotamia) A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9).
- 6. The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
- 7. A member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
- 10. A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.
- 12. The Fertile Crescent is a boomerang-shaped region in the Middle East, encompassing parts of modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, and northern Egypt.
- 14. The term for modern-day humans
- 15. Tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce.
- 16. A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
- 17. A person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
- 18. An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
- 19. A prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, consisting of a large circle of megaliths surrounding a smaller circle and four massive trilithons; dating to late Neolithic and early Bronze Age times (c1700–1200 b.c.) and believed to have been connected with a sun cult or used for astronomical observations.
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- 1. A member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food.
- 2. The period of time before written records.
- 4. 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.
- 7. Relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.
- 8. Arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
- 9. Relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used and humans were nomadic.
- 11. The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
- 13. The stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.