Unit 1 Vocab

4. A civilization with a series of rulers from a single family
5. Exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money
7. The transition from nomadic hunting and gathering communities and bands to agriculture and settlement
8. A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand
9. A member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food
10. A person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented
13. The taming of animals and plants
16. The spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another.

1. A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
2. Land between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea that provided the best farming in Southwest Asia
3. A time period characterized by the use of bronze, proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization
6. The belief in more than one god
7. a person who moves from place to place in search of food and safety
11. A society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar
12. the development of skills in a specific kind of work
14. The stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.
15. Denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets