Lesson 1
What is the Inca empire?
About how many languages were spoken in North America at the time of European contact?
About 300
What are gold and salt?
Three of the greatest Greek thinkers or philosophers
who were socrates, plato and aristotle?
The first americans to who crossed from Asia into North America sometime between 38,000 bce and 10,000 bce.
Who are Paleo-Indians?
a strip of land connecting Alaska with Russia that emerged from underwater around 38,000 bce
what is the bering land bridge?
You can find the Iroquois league in this culture area as well as the Cherokee, Creek and Seminole people. They were farmers, hunters and trades known for their beans, squash and maize.
What are the Northeast and Southeast culture areas?
These are the 3 most powerful trading kingdoms of africa?
what are ghana, mali and songhai?
This marked the beginning of the Middle Ages.
This means underground ceremonial chambers.
what are kivas?
Why do you think migration of early peoples in the americas flowed north to south?
warmer climates, following herds
Few plants grow in this culture area as the ground is always frozen beneath a top layer of soil. You can find the Inuit and the Aleut people who carve images of ancestors of animals on totems or tall wooden poles.
What are Arctic and Subarctic culture areas in the North and Northwest?
This is the famous Muslim king who helped Mali reach the height of its power fame and wealth.
Who was Mansa Musa?
What were the crusades?
This means people traced their ancestry through their mothers not their fathers.
what is matrilineal?
how did the aztecs build such a powerful and rich state?
1. fierce warriors, 2. made alliances, 3. collected tribute and 4. controlled trade
This concept was extremely important in Native American religions.
What is nature?
The name of an important river in West Africa.
What is the Niger River?
why was the printing press critical to the spread of new ideas?
Thousands of people could read and discuss the same books and share ideas about them.
A pilgrimage to Mecca made by devout Muslims
what is hajj?
Name the four civilizations in mesoamerica and south america
How did Native Americans view landownership?
People did not own the land only the crops that grew. Land was available for everyone and it was everyones responsibility to care for it.
What did Mali and Songhai have in common?
Both powerful trading kingdoms and Islam was important to both
What were two key features of the Renaissance or the period that followed the Middle Ages?
Love of art and education
A government in which people rule themselves.
what is a democracy?