Societies of the Americas
Societies of Africa
Societies of Europe
Geography
Potpourri
100
This is the most likely reason for migration.
What is the search for food and shelter.
100
This West African empire grew wealthy by taxing gold and salt as they passed through its territory.
What is Ghana?
100
This disease killed millions of people in Europe.
What was the Black Death?
100
These people lived in what is now Peru.
What is the Inca?
100
These two great empires once dominated Central and South America.
What are the Incas and the Aztecs?
200
This first great American civilization stretched from modern-day Mexico to Nicaragua.
Who are the Olmec?
200
Sundiata founded this West African empire, which later became famous for the city of Timbuktu.
What is Mali?
200
This invention allowed books to be printed by machine rather than by hand. Who invented it?
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
200
These two nomadic groups lived in the Southwest and relied on hunting and raiding rather than farming.
Who are the Navajo and Apache?
200
This group built multi-stories homes under steep mountain cliffs.
What is the Pueblo?
300
These people made many advances in the arts and architecture between AD 250 and 900.
What is the Mayans?
300
This West African empire reached its height under rulers Sunni Ali and Askia Muhammad.
What is Songhai?
300
A time of increased interest in art and learning in Europe.
What is the Renaissance?
300
This farming method, used by Eastern Woodlands peoples, involved burning fields to clear and fertilize land.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
300
What is Ms. Wolpert's favorite Starbucks drink?
WHAT IS PUMPKIN SPICE!!!!!!!!!!!
400
Near what modern-day city (or state) did the Mound Builders live?
What is Saint Louis, Missouri? Once called "Cahokia."
400
West African empires grew rich by controlling the trans-Saharan trade routes for these two goods.
What are gold and salt?
400
The upset over corrupt practices among the Catholic clergy led to this.
What is the Reformation?
400
Modern day Mexico was once ruled by this group?
What is the Aztec?
400
The West African Kingdom that ruled from 1200 to 1400.
What is Mali?
500
Name two innovations of the Maya.
What are calendars and the number 0?
500
This West African river was central to trade and travel for the empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
What is the Niger River?
500
These two reasons led Queen Isabella 1 of Spain to send expeditions to search new territories.
What were to spread Christianity and to capture valuable resources.
500
This group lived near present day Alaska and built homes of ice.
What is the Inuit or Aleut?
500
A group of people with common interests, customs, and way of life.
What is culture?