Early Americans
Taking a wild plant or animal and putting them under human control.
What is domestication?
Ghana introduced these two important products to the world market.
What are gold and salt?
The political system of Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is Feudalism?
The trade routes of Ghana, Mali, and eventually Songhai.
What are the Trans-Saharan?
The common people of Germany and Iroquis lived in the forests in these.
What are long wooden houses?
The first documented civilization in MesoAmerica.
Who are the Olmec?
Large groups of traders traveled in these human gatherings to stay safe.
What are caravans?
This economic system had the serfs working the farms, the vassels collecting the taxes (pretty much everything the serfs produced), and the lords lording from above.
What is manoralism?
The first ocean going ships.
What are caravels?
While many African leaders converted to Islam, their European counterparts were converting to this religion.
What is Christianity?
Kayaks helped this society fish and hunt sea mammals in the Arctic, even to this day.
Who are the Inuits?
The religion that African traders spread with their mind and words.
What is Islam?
Martin Luther started this protest with his 95 thesis, it gave us Protestantism.
What is the Reformation?
The practice of clearing land to make it farmable by Eastern Natives.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
The Pueblo and Mali used this common resource to build their dwellings.
What is mud or adobe?
Burial grounds and temples are what historians think these ancient structures located around the Mississippi Valley were used for.
What are the mounds of the mound building societies?
This great leader from Songhai founded a university and promoted education.
Who is Askia the Great?
This rebirth started in Italy and made its way North through art and literature.
What is the Renaissance?
These watering holes gave camels the fuel they needed to make it across the Sahara.
What is an oasis?
The Mayan and Moche people lived in the Andes mountains of South America, much different than this geographic landform that the West African people of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai lived in.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The belief system of Eastern Natives that tracked familial relations through the mother.
What is matrilineal?
During the height of the Trans-Atlantic trade, rulers did this to promote commerce and trade with Muslim traders.
What is convert to Islam?
This invention made the Reformation, Renessaince, and eventually the scientific revolution possible because it greatly increased the spread of information. It was the internet of 1440.
What is the printing press?
Great plains Natives followed this large animal and used every single part of it to eat and also build their homes, tools, and clothes.
What are the buffalo or bison?
This practice, seen all over the Americas to help them farm, but was not mentioned in Europe and Africa.
What is irrigation?