Vocab 1 Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.
  2. 3. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
  3. 5. soil or land producing or capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops.
  4. 10. 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.
  5. 12. tame an animal and keep it as a pet or for farm produce.
  6. 14. the period of time before written records.
  7. 15. The first known codification of laws is attributed to Ur-Nammu, king of Ur, in the twenty-fifth century b.c.
  8. 16. relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.
  9. 17. the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
  10. 18. boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations.
  11. 20. nomadic or semi-nomadic and live in temporary settlements
Down
  1. 2. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
  2. 4. a common job in medieval European towns during the 10th and 11th centuries
  3. 6. human
  4. 7. relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.
  5. 8. a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.
  6. 9. Revolution-the critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture
  7. 10. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
  8. 11. a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
  9. 13. 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.
  10. 19. the first monument was an early henge monument, built about 5,000 years ago, and the unique stone circle was erected in the late Neolithic period about 2500 BC.