Across
- 3. in ancient Mesopotamia, a large, stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to a city's chief god or goddess.
- 4. The first part of the Stone age when humans survived by living a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
- 7. skilled workers who make goods by hand
- 9. a major turning point as humans switched from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle
- 10. a region of the Middle East in which civilizations first arose
- 13. the later part of the Stone Age, used stone weapons
- 14. complex culture with advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology
- 16. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase
- 17. The time or period before recorded or written history.
- 18. species of human beings
- 20. The selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans
Down
- 1. The investigation of the human past by means of excavating and analyzing artifacts
- 2. Objects made by human beings, either hand-made or mass-produced
- 5. one who gets their food by hunting for it and collecting wild fruit, vegetables, and nuts
- 6. the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group
- 8. professional record keepers around 3000 BC in Sumer
- 11. to arrange or set down in writing
- 12. a person who does not stay long in the same place
- 15. architecturally sophisticated prehistoric stone circle
- 19. Sumerian method of writing using writing characters scratched by a stylus on clay surface