Vocabulary
A community of plants, animals, and other organisms that live in a particular environment.
What is a biome?
This landform is found in the Eastern U.S. It is a large mountain range that stretches from Canada to Alabama.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
This is the belief that reframed European culture during the Renaissance to place more importance on the importance of each individual.
What is Humanism?
These were the Dahomey's main crops.
What are yams and cassava?
This was brought to America by the Columbian Exchange, killing millions of Native people.
What is disease?
This person sailed the ocean blue in 1492, when he arrived in what he believed to be Japan. He was also the first European to step foot into South America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This is an area of land with unique characteristics that distinguish it from other areas.
What is a region?
This landform is located in the Easter U.S. It is an expanse of rocky terrain and lakes that surrounds the Hudson Bay.
What is the Candian Sheild?
This man invented the printing press, an invention that made books more widely available, raising the literacy rate in Europe.
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
This was the main religion of the Dahomey people. It was polytheistic (many gods) and included a practice of magic, which we now know to be medicine making.
What is vodu?
This animal brought to the Americas by the Europeans became a staple of southwestern Native tribes.
What are horses?
This person was a Portuguese prince. He never went on an expedition, but he paid for many explorers to explore the ocean.
Who is Henry the Navigator/Prince Henry of Portugal?
This is a form of farming where almost all the food planted and harvested is used to feed the farmers family. It was a common form of farming pre-industrialization.
What is subsistence farming?
This economic region is found in the Western U.S. It is located in the prairie region and has rich soil, making it good for grain. It is also known as "America's Breadbasket."
What is the Great Plains?
A finding made by Nicolaus Copernicus that went against Church teachings and got him excommunicated.
What is the discovery that the Earth revolved around the Sun?
This was the lineage the Asante people followed, where they traced their families by the women.
What is matrilineal?
These people were known throughout South America as a rich empire of gold. Pizarro sought them out, using their civil war as a distraction, and in the 1530s took over what we now know as Peru.
Who were the Inca?
This explorer was accompanied by another explorer. He was the first to reach India by going around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa in 1498.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This means "rebirth." It was a period of great advancements in art, music, literature, and science that started in Italy and spread through Europe.
What is the Renaissance?
This biome is known for its temperate zones that surround tropical areas. It is dense with trees and runs along the coast of the PNW.
What is a rainforest?
On October 31, 1517, this man nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg church. This move started the Protestant Reformation and got him excommunicated from the Church.
Who was Martin Luther?
This was the name for the Asante king, based off a story of an object falling from the sky and choosing their first king.
What is The Golden Stool?
These people believed Hernán Cortés was their god, so they welcomed him to the city of Tenochtitlán. Cortés would go on to plunder their empire for two years, renaming Tenochtitlán to Mexico City.
Who were the Aztec?
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe. He died during the expedition, but his crew completed the mission for him.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This was a system used by the Spanish government to control the Native Americans in the 1500s. Conquistadors, soldiers, and other officials would be put in charge of a specific number of Natives.
What is encomienda?
This biome is very hot and dry in the day, but cold at night. Its harsh environment makes for unique plants and animals to call it home.
What is a desert?
This man was the chief inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. He burned approx. 2,000 people between 1484-1498.
Who was Tomás de Torquemada?
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What are drums, horns, gongs, and bells?
This Native innovation was used in many different ways. One example is the Pueblo people who not only built this system, but also placed their farms at the bottom of hills to make a natural version of this system.
What is irrigation?
This explorer was the second to attempt to find the Northwest Passage. He was sponsored by England and the Netherlands but never found the passage. He was abandoned in a bay named for him and was never seen again.
Who is Henry Hudson?