Unit 1 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. total of knowledge, attitude, and behaviors shared and passed on by members of a specific group
  2. 5. the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
  3. 6. is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq,
  4. 9. people in ancient Egypt (usually men) who learned to read and write.
  5. 11. a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place
  6. 12. the period of time before written records.
  7. 14. final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans.
  8. 16. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly on clay tablets.
  9. 17. A hunter-gatherer is a human living a lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging and hunting, like what most natural omnivores do
  10. 18. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase
  11. 19. the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong
Down
  1. 1. this is the process of adapting plants and animals to meet human needs,
  2. 2. Religious Monuments
  3. 4. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
  4. 5. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
  5. 7. a complex human society
  6. 8. relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.
  7. 10. The early stages of neolithic people
  8. 13. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
  9. 15. This was the critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture