First Nations
Mastering cultivation of this crop in North America and Mesoamerica allowed the creation of fixed societies, cities, and allowed cultural diffusion across large areas.
What is Maize?
This type of government was central to most of Western European law and culture during the 15th century.
What is Monarchy?
What is the Sahara?
This year culminated in the voyages of Columbus and the sacking of the last Muslim outpost in Spain.
What is 1492?
This is the name for the Protestant belief that God already knows whether someone is going to Heaven or not.
What is Predestination?
This 'nation' was a grouping of tribes working together in the Northeastern United States. "A Sort of upstate-New York NATO."
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
This practice of disposing property, usually left everything to the first son, leaving younger offspring at loose ends.
What is Primogeniture?
What is the Koran?
Who were the Portuguese?
Portuguese traders overtook Arabs merchants as the primary purveyors of this one-time commodity.
What is the slave trade?
Famous for Cahokia, this river-centered native culture extended as far east as Tennessee and Kentucky.
What was Mississippian culture?
This advanced society to the East was the goal of European explorers trying for new trade routes.
What is China?
While many Africans practice local animist religions, trade (and sometimes warfare) dispersed this major religion across much of Northern and Central Africa.
Islam.
Who were the Taino?
The descendants of the Mongol Horde interrupted business along this major trading route, which caused Europeans to seek a way to the west.
The Silk Road
This religion belives that the natural world is suffused with spiritual power.
What is animism?
These wars generally pitted Christians against Muslims, often in contention over control of the Holy Land?
What are the Crusades?
The Akan States of West Central Africa were also known by this metallic monicker.
What is the Gold Coast
This explorer reportedly burned his own ships before going on to invade Mexico.
This "Rebirth" of European culture brought about a return to Classical ideals, and a flowering of art and science.
This region was known for wide-ranging tribes of migrating natives, and both were transformed by the introduction of horses to the area in the 16th century.
The Great Plains
This priest described 95 reasons why the Catholic church was failing to meet its duties to Christians, touching off the Protestant Reformation and the Hundred Years War
Who is Martin Luther?
The country of Mali had so much gold that this prince accidently wrecked the economies of countries he visited on his Hajj.
Mansa Musa
Pizarro arrived in this Peru to find this empire already in chaos due to diseases spread originally from Europeans.
What is the Incan Empire?
This Aztec city, built upon a lake, was the Europeans' first encounter with a major American civilization.