Lesson 1
What was the land bridge called that Paleo-Indians crossed to connect Asia and Alaska?
Bering Land Bridge
What feasts would contain hosts chiefs who would give away most of their belongings as gifts.
Potlatches
What is a pilgrimage to Mecca called?
Who conquered Gaul?
The Franks
What event led to the land bridge appearing between Asia and Alaska?
Ice Age
What was the first civilization in Mesoamerica?
Olmec Civilization
Which area of tribes have a rich supply of game animals, fish, and wild plants
South & Southwest
What was the predominant language in Africa at the time of the Mali empire fall?
Islam
Which early country created the form of Democracy
Greece
What are multi-storied permanent villages built with adobe by the Anasazi
Pueblos
Inca kept records with a system of knotted strings called
Quipu
What tribes used igloos, fishing, dogs for sleds, and lived in the North and Northwest?
Inuit & Aleut tribes
What were Ghana's two major trading resources
Gold & Salt
What is the relationship between knights and lords
Feudalism
What is a group of languages that connect to each other through descent from a single common ancestral language
Language family
What are some different ways tribes acquired food to help them settle?
Hunting/farming/gathering
What is the system of family descent, identity, and inheritance that is traced exclusively through the female line
Matrilineal
What country/nation invaded the Songhai Empire with the goal of taking over salt mines in the Sahara
Morocco
What does the word Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
Which early country published their laws on public display?
Rome
What was the first political confederation of Native Americans
Iroquois League
What native american statue had ancestors or animal spirits/drawings; and had religious and historical significance
Totems
What was the same of Songhai’s greatest ruler
Askia the Great
Who are the three greatest philosophers we learned about in this module?
Socrates/Plato/Aristotle
Which philosopher wrote The Republic?
Plato