Roots of American People 1
What is monotheistic?
The belief in one god
Define culture:
Ways of life
Define surplus:
Extra
Define navigation:
The science of locating the positions and plotting the course of ships
Define: Quran
Sacred book of Islam
Which of these were the two great West African trading kingdoms that arose between 1200 and 1400?
Mali and Songhai
What was an effect that the Crusades had on Europe?
Europeans now inspired to look overseas for trade
Which government was developed by the Ancient Romans?
republic
Chinas overseas trade expanded in the early 1400s because
Emperor was eager for trade and named Zheng He along with 300 ships with goods to set voyages
What is the general view about how people first reached the Americas?
They crossed a Bering land bridge from Asia
Which innovation helped early cultures develop in the American Southwest by creating a system to bring water to dry lands?
the use of irrigation to farm in the desert
Why did trade flourish in the Muslim world?
It linked the Mediterranean world in the west with Asia in the east and Africa in the south
Arabia was at a crossroads linking trade routes from Asia to Africa
Islam spread rapidly to many parts of the world through trade
Who ruled Mali at its height?
Mansa Musa
Which religion included rules of behavior known as the Ten Commandments?
Judaism
What kinds of dwellings did the Anasazi culture group build?
Cliff dwellings with walls of sun dried brick
Who could participate in the Athenian Assembly?
adult males
What was the ultimate result of Zheng He's voyages of discovery in the 1400s?
Expanding China's overseas trade, but later decided they had nothing to learn from the outside world
Which early American civilization built a complex system of roads and rope bridges that united its empire?
Inca
What is the most important reason that trade flourished in the Muslim world?
Muslim sailors had expert knowledge of wind and weather
by 1498, which Portuguese explorer had passed the southern tip of Africa?
Vasco de Gama
DAILY DOUBLE
In some culture areas in North America, what was traded as currency?
Which group emerged in Southern Utah, Colorado, Northern Arizona, and New Mexico?
Anasazi
Which group of people had stable towns and lasted for hundreds of years? They made large apartment houses made of sun dried brick.
The Pueblos
What were the two groups of the Eastern Woodlands?
Algonquians and the Iroquois
Which society believed that their system of government depended on a well rounded and educated citizens?
Athenians (Greeks)