Native American Civilizations
This group had a city called Cahokia with a population of up to 20,000 people.
What is the Mississippian civilization?
This invention by Johan Gutenberg revolutionized the spread of information and ideas in Europe.
What is the printing press?
This disease from Europe devastated Native American populations who had no immunity.
What is smallpox
Columbus
Renaissance means?
Rebirth
These natives were in America in the Eastern Woodlands. Built homes out of adobe and stone
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
These three technological innovations helped European navigators explore across the Atlantic Ocean.
What are the compass, astrolabe, and improved maps?
This crop from the Americas became a staple food in Europe and Africa after 1492.
What is the potato?
These emerged in europe during the 1400s they were _____-states
nation-states
This philosophical movement emphasized human potential, classical learning, and individual achievement.
What is humanism?
Built Irrigation Systems in the Southwest.
Who were the Ancestral Puebloans?
This type of ship was designed specifically for ocean exploration with improved sails and steering.
What is a caravel?
: These animals were brought from Europe to the Americas and changed Native American societies.
What are horses and cattle?
peasants to work land owned by nobles in exchange for protection.
What is the manor system?
The true renaissance man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This farming technique involved cutting and burning vegetation to clear land for crops.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
This Portuguese explorer found a sea route around Africa to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The transfer of goods, plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The Catholic Church promised forgiveness for sins if a person paid these.
Indulgences
This religious reformer developed Calvinism and emphasized predestination and hard work.
John Calvin
A grand ceremonial feast and gift-giving gathering practiced by people of the northwest coast.
potlatches
This Portuguese prince sponsored voyages of exploration down the African coast and established trading posts.
Who is Prince Henry of Portugal?
: Millions of Native Americans died from this after Columbus's arrival, more than from warfare or other causes.
What is disease?
This movement challenged Catholic Church practices and led to the creation of Protestant churches.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
A list of grievances with the church.
The 95 theses