O.M.A.I
This is the name of the Maya ritual calendar
What is: Sacred Round
This rich family ruled Florence for almost 300 years
BONUS (250): Their wealth came from_____.
Who is: The Medici Family
BONUS: banking
The introduction of _______ around 300 C.E. caused the trans-Saharan trade route to expand
What is: the camel
West Africa
What is: Danger of the Single Story
Who is: Felix
This is the oldest of civilization of the three listed: Aztec, Mayan, Incan
BONUS (150): The place(s) referred to as "classical culture"
What is: Humanism
BONUS: Rome and Greece
Ghana was located between these two areas that wanted to trade
BONUS (50): Ghana established its wealth using this method
What is: North Africa and West Africa
BONUS: heavy taxing
China
What is: Dynasties and Developments
The term for the spread of ideas, beliefs, and goods?
What is: Cultural Diffusion
This civilization used a unique system to deliver important dates, messages, and other data; it was an adaptation to the impressive distances between cities
BONUS (150): The name of the those who carried the messages across great distances
BONUS (50): These were a set of strings that allowed the civilization to keep records
Who are: the Inca
Bonus: Chasquis
Bonus: Quipus
These are at least THREE thinkers of the Enlightenment/Scientific Revolution and their ideas.
Locke, Hobbes, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Copernicus, Decartes, Vesalius, ...etc.
These were the three kingdoms that arose in West Africa about 500 and 1600 C.E.
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
O.M.A.I
What is: Engineering versus Conquest
This is the main reason Quechua is widely spoken in South America today
What is: the official language of the Incan Empire
This image is on the flag of Mexico and is symbolic of Aztec heritage
What is: the Eagle with the snake in its mouth standing on a cactus in the middle of body of water
During the Middle Ages, this person was considered to hold the greatest authority
Who is: the Pope (the church)
Written tradition became more important in West African culture when this gained a following
BONUS (100): Before written traditions, this was how history and culture were stored in West Africa
BONUS (5): This is an example of the above
BONUS (50): They were trusted advisors to rulers, keepers of local histories (ancestry, battles, deaths), and are know to be poet-musicians
BONUS (5): This was the title of keepers who were female
What is: Islam
BONUS: oral traditions
Bonus: OPEN
BONUS: Griots
Bonus: Griotte
Islam
What is: Misconceptions and Stereotypes
This ruler of the Mali Empire is said to have been the wealthiest man to have ever lived
BONUS (50): Because of his faith, he made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324
BONUS (25): The abovementioned ruler ordered the creation of several of these and greatly valued knowledge
Who is: Mansa Musa
BONUS: Muslim (he practiced Islam)
BONUS: libraries (and mosques)
List at least one way EACH of the M.A.I. civilizations adapted or overcame their environments
BONUS (25): This civilization's capital city was
Tenochtitlán
BONUS (25): One of this civilization's more famous city was Machu Picchu
Maya
- terracing
- slash and burn
Aztec
- chinampas
- grid system/causeways
- tribute
Inca
- suspension bridges
- cold resistant crops (potatoes)
- alpaca/llamas
These are two events that significantly decreased the population of Europe.
What are: the CRUSADES and the BUBONIC PLAGUE (BLACK DEATH)
These were the most respected people in Jenne-jeno; they also acted as political leaders, judges, and doctors
Who are: blacksmiths
Europe
What is: Rebirth and Revolution
Name FIVE advancements in the Arts (painting, sculpture, artitechture, literature...) that came about during the Renaissance
- free standing sculptures
- 3D/emotions
- perspective
- shading
- use of science/math
- secular topics
-vernacular language...