A city or village and its surrounding farmlands with its own leaders and government.
City-State
A person who writes.
Scribe
Name of innovation that allowed people to go from living in small nomadic clans to living in large groups and forming civilizations
Agriculture or Farming
What does "G" stand for in G.R.A.P.E.S.?
Geography
Name of people who lived in ancient Mesopotamia
Summerians
Name one of the two rivers in Mesopotamia
Tigris or Euphrates
A person who buys and sells goods for a living.
Merchant
What does the "R" in G.R.A.P.E.S" represent?
Religion
A new way of doing things.
DAILY DOUBLE
Innovation
A complex society
Civilization
An organized system that groups use to make laws and decisions.
DAILY DOUBLE
Government
A triangle shaped area where sand, silt, clay or gravel is dropped at the mouth of a river.
Delta
A huge mud-brick temple built by the ancient Sumerians.
Ziggurat
Belief in One God.
Monotheism
A group that has a particular amount of power in society.
Social Class
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes or streams.
DAILY DOUBLE
Irrigation
Writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge shaped marks in soft clay.
Cuneiform
The belief in more than one god.
Polytheism
Region known as the "cradle of civilization".
Fertile Crescent
The system of government in which a king or queen rules.
Monarchy