Learning Contract #1: Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. characteristics and knowledge of a group
  2. 5. the period of time before written records
  3. 7. complex human society with social and cultural development
  4. 9. the study of past cultures
  5. 12. object made by humans, typically an item of cultural or historical interest
  6. 14. someone employed to make written copies of documents
  7. 16. tame (animal) for pets or farm produce
  8. 17. Humans
  9. 18. ancient writing system used in Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit
  10. 19. a person with no fixed home
Down
  1. 1. crescent shaped region in the Middle East. It was home to some of the earliest human civilizations.
  2. 3. later part of the Stone Age
  3. 4. early phase of the Stone Age, lasting 2.5 million years
  4. 6. rectangular stepped tower in ancient Mesopotamia
  5. 8. the critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture
  6. 9. a worker in a skilled trade, mostly manmade
  7. 10. a pictural symbol for a word or phrase
  8. 11. person who depends mostly on wild foods, nomadic or semi-nomadic
  9. 13. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code
  10. 15. prehistoric monument in England