Origins of Civilization

1. A member of a community that moves regularly from place to place rather
2. a large political unit or sovereign state where a dominant central power (the
7. The supreme political and religious ruler of ancient Egypt
8. An ancient system of writing that uses pictures and symbols instead
15. Mesopotamia was one of the first places where humans started practicing
16. The shared way of life of a group of people.
17. living in a single permanent location.
18. A sequence of rulers from the same family or lineage who hold power over a
19. An independent, sovereign country made up of a single main city and the
20. rules over distinct, diverse territories and ethnic groups.

1. Period The final stage of the Stone Age.
3. the belief in and worship of multiple gods or deities
4. Period The earliest and longest phase of human prehistory.
5. A complex human society.
6. The belief in the existence of only one god or in the oneness of God.
9. standard letters.
10. agriculture, and the earliest known writing system, cuneiform, originated there as well.
11. he sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty
12. To arrange laws, rules, or system information into a clear, organized, and written code
13. or empire through hereditary succession.
14. lands or villages around it.