Vocab 1

3. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.
8. the period of time before written records.
9. 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.
11. the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.
12. a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England
13. a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
16. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
18. the radical and important period of change in which humans began cultivating plants, breeding animals for food and forming permanent settlements.
19. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
20. (in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9).

1. by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food.
2. tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce.
4. the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.
5. Crescent the Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan, together with the northern region of Kuwait, southeastern region of Turkey and the western portion of Iran.
6. the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.
7. The species to which all modern human beings belong a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly
10. the study of human history and prehistory archaeology through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
14. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.\
15. a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
17. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.