Across
- 1. highly mobile people who moved to new places in search of food
- 4. flexible writing system "sacred carvings"
- 6. long lasting pattern of organization in a community
- 7. gov't rule based on religious authority
- 8. series of rulers from a single family
- 9. controls its city and the land surrounding
- 10. region's curve shaped land that has some of SW Asia's best farming
- 13. taming of animals
- 14. new idea/product spreads from one culture to another
- 18. species name for modern day humans
- 20. humans and creatures that walk upright
- 21. way of applying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs
- 23. trading goods and services without $$
- 24. resting place after death & a structure
- 25. people's unique way of life
- 26. complex culture
- 27. development of skills in a specific type of work
- 30. skilled workers who made goods by hand
- 31. believing in more than one god
- 32. cut trees and grass then burn them to clear fields
- 33. system of writing
Down
- 2. human made object
- 3. pyramid shaped monument "mountain of god"
- 4. nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods
- 5. writing surface that grew in the marshy delta
- 11. changes caused by the beginning of farming
- 12. professional record keepers
- 15. characteristic of a civilization
- 16. new stone age
- 17. embalming & drying the corpse to prevent it from decaying
- 19. Egyptian god-king & rulers of Ancient Egypt
- 22. ruler of Babylon & created code of __________
- 28. earlier and longer part of stone age
- 29. possible king of upper & lower Egypt
- 34. several nations combined and controlled by one ruler