Geography
The Tigris and Euphrates river surround this ancient civilization.
What is Ancient Mesopotamia?
This term is a person who does not stay long in the same place.
What is a nomad?
In this era, people lived nomadic lives.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
A desciption of the king's court at the empire of Ghana would fall under this component of GRAPES.
What is political?
While the Sumerians used a writing system called cuneiform, the Mayans and Egyptians both had a different form of writing system called ________.
What are hieroglyphics?
This is a geographical feature that many civilizations developed near because it provided important sustenance for people and crops, as well as a means of trade.
What is a body of water/river?
This term is the process of adapting wild plants/animals for human use.
What is domestication?
In this era, people experienced more economic growth and innovation because they were more likely to trade goods and ideas.
What is the Neolithic Era/after Agricultural Revolution?
Ancient Mesopotamia's development along the Fertile Crescent, a part of the Middle East where land there was fertile (good for growing crops), can be applied to what component of GRAPES?
What is geography?
This invention, monopolized by Ancient Egyptians, gave people a far standard, durable medium on which to record ideas.
What is papyrus/paper?
Jared Diamond said this civilization had geographic luck because it had fertile land and animals that could be domesticated.
What was Mesopotamia (or ancient Middle East or the Fertile Crescent)?
The belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods, is known as this component of a civilization.
What is religion?
In this age, survival was dependent on hunting and gathering.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
In Inca and Aztec society, crops like potatoes, maize, tomatoes, cotton, and chocolate were grown and traded. This is an example of which component of GRAPES?
What is economics?
This was the set of laws used in Babylonia (Mesopotamia) that encouraged the concept of "eye for an eye."
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
The wheel, paper, compass and gunpowder were all invented in this part of the world.
What is Asia (China and the Middle East)?
The distinct arrangement of institutions and levels of society where human beings live and work together is known as this component of GRAPES.
What is social structure?
During the Paleolithic Age, what kind of tools did people primarily use? (Several acceptable answers)
What are chiseled stones, harpoons, fish hooks)
The ancient Sumerians dug a canal to give their plants water from the river to make sure they can have food and make money. This can relate to what aspects of GRAPES? (Name one)
Achievements, economics, geography
This more destructive achievement was used first in Ancient China for fireworks and war.
What is gunpowder?
Ur was an ancient city-state located in this civilization on the south bank of the Euphrates within ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
This term, commonly known as farming, was the innovation that led to the shift from the Paleolithic Era to the Neolithic Era.
What is a agriculture?
This is the term that means the sharing of ideas, traditions, and knowledge with various cultures. This is possible because of the Neolithic revolution.
What is cultural exchange?
The component of GRAPES that this refers to: "Arab (ethnic group of North Africa) traders of this region wanted gold as much as the Wangara (gold merchants of Ghana) wanted salt, but both had to pass through Ghana to trade…Ghana controlled land…it had the military forces…to maintain peace in the area, assuring safe trade for the Arabs and the Wangara."
What is economics?
In these ancient civilizations, crops like potatoes, maize, tomatoes, cotton, and chocolate were grown and traded. (name one)
What are Inca, Aztec, Maya?