The first people came to the Americas by this method.
What is walked across a land bridge?
100
This trading "road" crossed the African desert and brought Europeans in contact with North Africans?
What is the Sahara Highway?
100
The basic unit of European society was this type of family.
What is nuclear?
100
This is the study of things in the past
What is history?
100
A mother, father, and their children
What is the nuclear family?
200
The first Americans came because they were searching for this.
What is food?
200
The Portuguese arrived in West Africa because they were searching for this.
What is an alternate trade route? Also acceptable: gold
200
The European social order was based on this concept
What is hierarchy?
200
These are documents that were created at the time of the historical event being studied
What are primary sources?
200
A system of social order in which everyone has a job based on characteristics like gender or age
What is the division of labor?
300
Native Americans believed that the Americas were not only land but...
What is many lands?
300
Name two West African empires who came in contact with Europeans around 1492
What are the Songhai, Benin and Kongo?
300
Name two consequences of the Crusades?
What is decline in Church authority, rise of nations, Reformation, development of trade, advances in science and technology, and the Age of Exploration?
300
This is the bonds that tie family members together
What is kinship?
300
This system of social organization groups people according to rank: nobles and peasants, for example.
What is hierarchy?
400
Native Americans shared certain cultural patterns. Name two of them.
What are trading networks, religious beliefs, beliefs about land use and social values?
400
West African social order was based on this principle
What is lineage? Also accepted: kinship
400
In 1492, he sailed the ocean blue for Spain
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
These people lived in the rain forests of West Africa and were famous for their iron mines and strong weapons
Who are the Kongo? Also acceptable: Benin
500
This powerful tribe lived in the Eastern woodlands of North America.
Who are the Iroquois?
500
The Portuguese discovered two uninhabited islands off the coast of West Africa and as a result brought a new kind of this to the Atlantic world.
What is slavery?
500
Columbus' first contact with Native Americans was with this people, who believed he was a great Spirit.
Who are the Taino?
500
A religion founded in 622 AD
What is Islam?
500
This is the movement of goods back and forth across the Atlantic after 1492 that included such things as pumpkins, tomatoes, turkeys, and tobacco