Geography and Trade
What major environmental event caused glaciers to melt and sea levels to rise?
Climate warming
Land-bridge
Two major resources that were traded from west Africa
Gold and Ivory
What new era began in Europe by the mid-1400s?
The Renaissance
These three European nations became alarmed by Spain's growing wealth and power in the Americas.
Dutch, French, and English
The enormous Desert dominated northern west Africa.
Sahara Desert
What type of home did many Algonquian peoples live in?
Wigwams
A persons wealth was often determined by the number of these people or dependents they owned, rather than land.
Slaves
What Portuguese sailor sail around the southern tip of Africa of 1487?
Bartolomeu Dias
The Spanish settlers were organized into a racial hierarchy known as this
Castas
What did Europeans bring home from the East that increased trade?
Silks, gems, spices, and other goods.
What three crops became important in Central Mexico?
Maize, squash, and beans.
This famous Ruler led the empire of Mali
Mansa Musa
What did Columbus believed he had reached when he arrived in the Carribean?
He thought he reached the East indies/Asia.
This Spanish explorer traveled north from Mexico searching for the legendary cities of gold.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Spanish built these religious settlements to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
Missions
Which civilization became the most powerful people in the highlands of central Mexico?
Aztecs
The three Kingdoms of West Africa in order
What are Ghana, Mali, Songhai?
What was the name of the exchange of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the old and new world?
The Columbian exchange
The most successful Native American revolt against Spanish colonization
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680?
What three kingdoms became powers in exploration?
Spain, Portugal, and England.
What city in the Americas had a population of about 200,000 at it's peak?
Tenochtitlan
This religion spread into West Africa through trade caravans crossing the Sahara.
Islam
The crusades
This was the first permanent European settlement in Canada
Quebec?