Vocab
composed of two or more parts
What is complex?
The idea that people came to the Americas over a land bridge.
What is the land bridge theory?
Give me three examples of culture
religion, clothing, food, language,
The Silk Road was _______miles long.
What is 5,000
Columbus set sail on what ocean?
Atlantic Ocean
is the entire way of life of a people.
What is culture?
The idea that people came to the Americas sailing down the coastline of the ocean
Coastal-route theory
What is the coastal route theory
The process of spreading ideas from one culture to another is called________.
a.) Diffusion b.) potlatch c.) culture region
diffusion
A rebirth or burst of learning and technological advancement in Europe from the 1300's to the 1600's)
What is the renaissance?
Ferdinand Magellan sailed what ocean? What did we learn from his voyage?
Pacific Ocean; We learned about how wide the Pacific ocean is and more about Earth's size.
A cord or string with knots that stood for numbers or categories
What is a quipu?
Olmec was able to farming and produce extra amount of food. What was this called?
The Olmec people over time had some farming communities in the Americas grew enough surplus to support large populations.
What is surplus?
What were the buildings in Anasazi culture made from, and what did the Spanish call them?
What is an adobe, and the Spanish called them Pueblos.
Zheng He was an emporer from______and he had a fleet of more than 300 ships.
a.) Middle East b.) China c.) Europe d.) Africa
China
the global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the people of the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
a.) Columbian exchange
b.) civilizations
c. diffusion
Columbian Exchange
A society or people sharing language, territory and economy that has certain basic features
What is civilization?
What group in the early Americas was responsible for making a relatively accurate 365 day calendar.
What is the Maya civilization?
Kinship means:
sharing a common ancestor
The Muslim people had a basic duty to make a pilgrimage to the ______ once in their life time.
a.) Mecca b.) Christian temples c. Arabia
a
What two diseases did Europeans give the American Indians?
influenza, smallpox
A political unit that controls a city and its surrounding land.
What is a city-state?
This group of people had floating gardens that were attached to reed mats that went down to the bottom of the lake with long stakes.
Who were the Aztecs?
Raised roads or packed earth that are linked the capital to the mainland.
What are causeways?
What are the three continents that make up the old world?
Europe, Africa, Asia.
The Vikings left Vinland because they possibly got into warfare with this tribe.
a.) Inuit b.) Maya c.) Aztec
Inuit