World History Vocab #1

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Across
  1. 2. A way of life where you move from one place to another rather then living in a fixed place
  2. 4. A skilled craftsperson that mastered a specific trade and produced goods by hand
  3. 7. A member of a society that gets its food by hunting animals and gathering plants(historically were nomadic societies)
  4. 10. A crescent-shaped region in the Middle East where some of the worlds earliest civilizations emerged
  5. 11. The remains or impressions of a once living thing that has been preserved in the earths crust
  6. 13. The study of past human activity through excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts.
  7. 14. Highly educated people who were trained in writing, copying, and preserving texts, documents, and records in societies
  8. 15. A pictorial sign or symbol that communicates meaning through resemblance to an object or concept. An early form of writing or visual communication
  9. 16. An advanced stage of human social and cultural development of urban settlements
  10. 19. The transition from nomadic life to permanent homes and communities
  11. 20. To adapt wild animals and plants into forms that are useful and beneficial to humans.
Down
  1. 1. A massive, terraced, pyramid like structures built in ancient Mesopotamia for religious purposes
  2. 3. The customs, arts, social institutions and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group
  3. 5. The earliest know system of writing developed by ancient Sumerians in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE
  4. 6. Any object made or used by humans in the past
  5. 8. An Archaeological period that marked a shift from hunting and gathering to farming and the domestication of animals (new stone age)
  6. 9. The primate species which modern humans belong to (means "wise human")
  7. 12. The period of human history spanning from roughly around 2.6 million years ago to around 12,000 years ago (old stone age)
  8. 17. A prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, made of a large circle of megaliths around a smaller circle and 4 trilithons
  9. 18. The period of human history before there were written records
  10. 21. To gather, organize, and arrange rules, laws, or other information into a systematic code or system