Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- The land between the Tigris and Euphrates
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- An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
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- Latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East
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- The largest inland sea
- 10 Across
- The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
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- Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence
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- The ancient and now extinct language of ___ under the Pharaohs
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- Someone who hunts game
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- A group's customs, art and way of life
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- A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
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- A group of persons together in one place
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- A society in an advanced state of social development
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- The area around the ___ Mediterranean
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- A preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
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- A causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe
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- The sequence of events involved in the ___ development of a species or taxonomic group
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