Across
- 3. Revolution The major transition in human history where people shifted from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle a settled agricultural lifestyle.
- 4. A member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture.
- 5. All species of primates which are highly developed.
- 7. A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictograms were used as the form of writing, examples have been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia before 3000 BC.
- 9. The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and analysis of artifacts.
- 12. A massive, stepped, pyramidal tower with a temple at the top, built in ancient Mesopotamia by civilizations like the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.
- 13. An advanced, complex human society with characteristics like cities, organized government, a division of labor, advanced technology, and a shared culture and system of communication.
- 15. Crescent A crescent-shaped region in the Middle East with fertile land, historically home to early civilizations like Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt.
- 16. Human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through discoveries, study, and research.
- 17. People who copy out documents, especially employed to do this before printing was invented.
- 19. A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
- 20. Relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
Down
- 1. The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
- 2. Relating to the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 billion years, when primitive stone implements were used.
- 6. To arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
- 8. Relating to the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.
- 10. Objects made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical definitions.
- 11. The process of adapting wild animals or plants for human use.
- 14. A member of nomadic people who live by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food.
- 18. A prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire, England, known for its unique arrangement of large standing stones.