Introduction to World Civilizations

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. The land between the Tigris and Euphrates (11)
  2. 8. An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia (9)
  3. 9. Latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (9)
  4. 10. The largest inland sea (13)
  5. 12. The defensive football players who line up behind the linemen (9)
  6. 14. Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence (5)
  7. 15. The ancient and now extinct language of ___ under the Pharaohs (8)
  8. 16. Someone who hunts game (6)

Down

  1. 1. A group's customs, art and way of life (7)
  2. 2. A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving (10)
  3. 3. A group of persons together in one place (9)
  4. 4. A society in an advanced state of social development (12)
  5. 6. The area around the ___ Mediterranean (10)
  6. 7. A preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen (7)
  7. 11. A causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe (6)
  8. 13. The sequence of events involved in the ___ development of a species or taxonomic group (9)