Across
- 1. A collection of written laws and rules
- 4. A person who makes money by selling goods
- 5. An expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind
- 7. A Neolithic town discovered in central Turkey
- 8. One who moves from place to place with no permanent home
- 10. An expert who studies and records the past
- 11. In ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 12. The business of farming; growing crops and raising animals
- 13. One of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
- 15. A craftsperson
- 18. A symbol that stands for an object
- 22. To move from one geographic region to another
- 23. Relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ceremony
- 25. An arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil
- 29. An expert who studies and creates maps of Earth’s natural and human-made features
- 30. A characteristic of civilization that includes the beliefs and behaviors of a society or group of people
- 32. A city that is the center of government
- 34. An early ancestor of humans
- 35. The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes
- 36. A means of supplying land with water
- 38. The first period of the Stone Age, called the Old Stone Age, from about 2 million years ago to around 8000 B.C.E.
- 41. Wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior
- 42. A military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender
Down
- 1. Writing that uses wedge-shaped characters
- 2. A scientist who studies human development
- 3. Before written history
- 6. To train a wild animal to be useful to humans
- 9. The way a civilization is organized
- 14. Ability or skill
- 16. An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top
- 17. An object made or used by people in the past
- 19. A person who writes
- 20. A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
- 21. A society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure
- 24. Something that can be used to fulfill a need
- 26. An area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared
- 27. The later part of the Stone Age, called the New Stone Age, lasted from around 8000 to 3000 B.C.E.
- 28. The business of buying and selling or exchanging items
- 31. The way a region or country uses resources to produce and sell or trade goods and services to meet people’s needs and wants
- 33. An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
- 37. A large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader or government
- 39. Fine particles of rock
- 40. One of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf