Ancient People Vocabulary

1. Watering crops by digging a ditch that leads from a body of water.
3. A long Period with no rain.
4. One of seven large areas of land on the globe.
8. Objects and tools used by early humans for eating, cooking, and hunting.
13. Family members who come after one has died.
16. The average condition of weather over a period of years.
17. Wild animals that are tamed and used by humans.
18. No longer living.
19. Flat-topped hills with steep sides.
21. A plant with sword-shaped leaves and cluster of white waxy flowers that grows in the warmer regions of North America.
22. A heavy clay used for making bricks.

2. Scientists who study past human life by looking at prehistoric fossils and tools.
5. One of seven continents in the world bounded by Alaska on the northwest, Greenland on the northeast, Florida one the southeast, and Mexico one the southwest.
6. Usual ways of doing things.
7. Large hairy extinct elephants with tusks that curved upward.
9. People who lived a long time ago and have since disappeared.
10. A very hard stone that produces a spark when struck by steel.
11. Gave up completely.
12. Groups of people who share a set of beliefs, goals, religious customs, attitudes, and social practices.
14. A type of object made out of clay that has been hardened by heat.
15. Animals that have three long clawed toes on each foot.
20. The period in history after the birth of Jesus Christ.