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1. A mixture of potassium nitrate - charcoal - and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery - time fuses - and fireworks

2. Any epidemic disease with a high death rate

3. (archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron ages - characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons

4. Process by which scientists formulate a hypothesis - gather data by observation and experimentation - and come to a conclusion

5. Destruction of forests

6. Tools and skills people use to meet their basic needs

7. An organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world

8. This scientist was an English mathematician and physicist who devised principles to explain universal gravitation - that all matter attracts other matter.

9. The period of history - succeeding the Bronze Age - when people first learned to extract iron from ore and use it to forge tools - weapons and other objects. The first organized production of objects developed in southwestern Asia shortly after 2000

10. A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

11. To fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.

12. The great rebirth of acrt - literature - and learning in the 14th - 15th - and 16th centuries which marked the transition from the medieval to modern periods of European history. - A new way of thinking. Which laed to future reforms for the catholic

13. A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

14. Made during The Renaissance

15. (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture - characterized by the use of stone implements

16. Restrictions; limits

17. Change in technology - brought about by improvements in machinery and by use of steam power

18. The historical period from around 500 A.D. up to around 1450 A.D. between the fall of Rome and the birth of the Renaissance

19. The practical application of science to commerce or industry