What is Cuzco? ** Extra 100 pt. ?? Is now present day what?
100
Groups of Native Americans established powerful ______.
What is empires?
100
The Incas kept records on ____.
What is groups of colored, knotted strings known as quipus?
100
What is Vijayanagar?
What is an important trading center for Asia and European countries?
100
What is the term that includes a city and the surrounding areas?
What is city-state?
200
In about 1200 the _____ settled in the Valley of Mexico.
What is the Aztecs?
200
What was the name of the Aztecs capital city?
What is Tenochtitlan?
200
Land areas in Europe were being ruled ______.
What is monarchs, king and queens?
200
Some Asian countries began to explore the world by ___
What is sailing the oceans?
200
By the late 1400s, the Aztecs had taken control of much of ______.
What is Central and Southern Mexico?
300
Because of the book, The Travels of Marco Polo, traders from Europe were _____.
What is traveling the long, difficult land routes that connected Europe and Asia.
300
*******Open Book 1 min Question*****
How many people did the Incas rule over? GO!
What is more than 12 million people! That's about 2.5 times as many as the present day population of Louisiana!!!!!
300
***** In your BOOK***** 1 min Question!!
What was the name of the capital of Ghana?
What is Kumbi Saleh?
300
_______ had become a great African empire.
What is Ghana?
300
Who was one of the best known leaders of the Soninkes? **** Extra Pts! **** How did he keep Songhay a strong empire?
Who is Sunni Ali and he encouraged more trade?
400
How did the Incas expanded their empire?
What is by using force to take over other people's lands?
400
Europeans were making big improvements _______.
What is science and technology?
400
The _______ ruled one of the largest and richest empires.
What is the Incas of South America?
400
Because of the market cities _________ had become one of the most powerful empires in Africa.
What is Mali?
400
After Yong Le’s death, new Chinese rulers decided to ____.
What is keep China apart from other civilizations?
500
How did _____________ spread the knowledge of the Renaissance????
What is Johannes Gutenberg? Johannes developed a new easier and less costly way of printing books. He printed The Travels of Marco Polo and people became interested in the lands Marco Polo traveled.
500
What is the Renaissance?
What is a period between the 1400s and the 1500s, when people were making big improvements in science and technology. People were also eager to explore new lands.
500
What Chinese inventions were the Polos amazed by?
What is gunpowder and the compass?
500
The young Chinese ruler, Yong Le, paid for the ocean voyages of ____.
What is Admiral Zheng? Extra Pt! How many voyages did he make during 1405 and 1433?
500
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What made the Aztec empire one of the most advanced civilizations in America at that time? (1000 pt)
What is a system of communication by using pictures and objects and symbols to represent words and syllables.