The Earliest Americans
A time when earth had freezing temperatures and large amounts of water froze into huge ice sheets.
What is the Ice Ace?
The Anasazi built these for religious ceremonies.
What are Kivas?
A group of people from West Africa. They controlled the trade routes.
Who are Berbers?
The type of government that developed during the Greek Classical Period. In this type of government, citizens rule themselves.
What is a democracy?
Two ways in which Ghana, Mali, and Songhai were all similar.
They both controlled the gold and salt trade, and they were located along the Niger River.
The earliest civilization in the Americas, located in Mesoamerica.
What is the Olmec?
Ancestor or animal spirits. Held great religious and historical significance for Native Americans of the Northwest.
What are totems?
The first of the three great empires in West Africa to become rich from trading salt and gold.
What is Ghana?
The greek philosopher who wrote a work called "The Republic", which describes an ideal society vased on justice and fairness for everyone.
Who is Plato?
Buildings for muslim prayer.
What are mosques?
Why did early peoples in Americas migrated from north to south?
Warmer climate and following herds.
This means that people traced their ancestry through their mothers, not their fathers.
Where Mansa Musa traveled to on a spiritual journey, and along the way, he introduced his empire to the world.
What is Mecca?
An invention that helped spread new ideas during the Renaissance.
Government, trade, and systems for record keeping were all part of early civilizations in which geographic location?
Mesoamerica and South America.
The people who build a rich and powerful state through fierce warriors, alliances, collecting tribute, and controlling trade.
Who are the Aztec?
Five nations - the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca - that formed a political alliance.
What is the Iroquois League?
Under his leadership, Mali reached the height of its wealth, power, and fame.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Businesses in which a group of people invest together.
Joint-stock companies.
This view was shared by ______ ________ groups: individual land ownership applied only to crops and was temporary.
What is Native American?
When the sea level fell, a land bridge between north-eastern Asia and present-day Alaska was exposed. Early people used this to migrate to the Americas.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
Geographic locations that influenced societies.
What are culture areas?
One of Songhai's greatest rulers. Devout muslim that who supported education and learning.
Who is Askia the Great?
A class in the feudal system. They gave land to vassals in exchange for loyalty and military service.
What are lords?
During the time know as the Greek _________ Period, Greese was organized into hundreds of independent city-states, which established the basis for Greek civilization.
What is Classical?