GRAPES of Civilization
The physical landscape, climate, weather and wildlife of an area.
What is Geography?
These two rivers surround Mesopotamia, which in Greek means "The Land Between the Rivers."
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
What is everything?
After settling in the Fertile Crescent, the Sumerians were the first people to do this action to supply themselves with food.
What is agriculture/farming?
This theory ponders whether or not we are alone in the universe.
What is is the Fermi Paradox?
Pertains to the government, elections, and lawmaking of a civilization.
What are politics?
This natural occurrence brings water over the banks of the rivers, providing fertile soil for the Mesopotamian farms.
What is flooding?
This word describes the belief in many gods.
What is polytheistic?
To provide water to their crops and control the flooding of the rivers, the Mesopotamians created this system.
What is irrigation?
These spherical objects are often seen during thunderstorms and have an unexplained origin.
What is ball lighting?
Pertains to the buying and selling of goods, money, trade and jobs.
To the North, this land feature surrounds Mesopotamia providing natural protection from invaders.
What are mountains?
This term describes the belief in one god.
What is monotheistic?
This technology allowed the Mesopotamians to dig deep ditches into the ground in order to plant their seeds.
What is the plow?
You may see these moving mountains while traveling through California's Death Valley.
What are Sailing Stones?
Pertains to the beliefs and practices involving a god or gods (monotheistic and polytheistic).
What is religion?
To the South, this landform provides natural protection from invaders.
What is a desert?
The Mesopotamians built these temples to to worship the main god or goddess of their city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
This invention was attached to carts and chariots, allowing the Mesopotamians to more easily move around on land.
What is the wheel?
Seen in such films as "Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse," this theory posits that there are realities that exist alongside our own, only slightly different.
What are parallel universes?
Involves inventions, mathematics, writing systems, scientific discoveries.
What are achievements?
Described as hot and dry, this made settling in Mesopotamia difficult at first.
What is the climate?
These people were the only ones allowed at the very top of the temple, which was considered to be closest to their main god or goddess.
What are priests?
The Sumerians developed this written language that was initially used to keep track of trade and business deals.
What is cuneiform?
This fear might have you shaking in your boots at the sight of a honeycomb or other object with a similar uniform pattern of holes.
What is trypophobia?
How society is organized into different social classes.
What is social structure?
Fresh drinking water, fertile soil for agriculture, and travel and trade with one another are all reasons people did this action.
What is settling near a river?
The Mesopotamians believed that this god, the Sky God, was the king of all of the other gods and goddesses.
Who is An (Ah-n)?
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
These gateways are often seen in science fiction films as an entrance to another world.
What is a black hole?