Chapter 1 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 6. Dry grassland that does not easily support vegetation, and by extension farming, and has historically promoted more nomadic lifestyles among human inhabitants.
  2. 9. The transition from nomadic life to settled farming.
  3. 10. Simple drawing created to represent an object or idea.
  4. 11. A political structure which asserts strong influence over a single city and the lands which surround it; often controlled by rulers, nobles, and priests who govern farmers and artisans who work on the lands.
  5. 12. The belief that spirits and forces may live in animals, objects, and dreams.
Down
  1. 1. The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another.
  2. 2. Believing in many gods.
  3. 3. The era in prehistory when fire and stone tools were used for the first time.
  4. 4. To raise plants and animals in a controlled way that makes them best suited to human use.
  5. 5. One of the first Neolithic villages.
  6. 7. A greater supply of goods or materials than what is needed at a particular point in time, helped lead to larger populations and the development of cities.
  7. 8. People who move from place to place in search of food, following game animals and ripening fruit.