Native American
This tribe of Natives built complex irrigation systems that included numerous canals that brought water to fields from several miles away.
*50 pt Bonus if you can say which region of the U.S. they lived.
Who are the Hohokam of the Southwest region?
This is the term used to describe the part of an enslaved person's journey from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
A system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and in return they fought and worked for those people of higher rank.
What is feudalism?
This is where Christopher Columbus's first voyage landed.
What is Hispaniola?
These continents make up the Old World.
These other continents make up the New World.
What are Europe, Africa, and Asia? (Old World)
What are North and South America? (New World)
This ceremony of the Northwest helped societies because it redistributed wealth and created balance among the tribes.
What is potlatch?
These were the first Europeans to reach West Africa in the 1400s.
What are the Portuguese?
An era of rebirth of interest in art and learning and introduced new ways and methods of thinking.
What is the Renaissance?
This era sparked a spirit of curiosity, investigation and the desire to explore in the Age of Exploration.
What is the Renaissance?
This is the role that European colonies in America played in the triangular trade routes.
What is growing crops that were brought to Europe to be turned into manufactured good?
Within North America there is such a variety of Native American cultural groups and lifestyles due to this.
What is the ways in which Native Americans adapted to their environment and utilized the resources available to them in different regions?
These are some of the natural resources that Africans had that Europeans wanted.
What are ivory, gold, and salt?
This economic theory was based on the accumulation of wealth. It was rooted in the idea of having a favorable balance of trade-- meaning you export more than you import.
What is mercantilism?
This is the reason John Cabot was unable to establish a trade route to China using a Northwestern route.
What is there was a continent blocking the way?
This even marked the beginning of cultural exchange between Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans in the Americas.
What is the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492?
These Native American tribes of the East participated in expansive trade networks and built earthworks.
* 100 pt Bonus if you can explain what earthworks are and three ways in which they were used.
What are the Adena and Hopewell?
What are mounds of earth built up in shapes that served as burial mounds, platforms for temples, and defensive walls?
This is the reason that Europeans chose to exploit and enslave West Africans.
These are three reasons that the Middle Ages were referred to as the Dark Ages.
*100 Bonus points if you can name the event that marked the beginning of the Middle Ages.
What are germanic tribes at war with one another, trade was disrupted, and there was a decline in learning?
*What is the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD?
These are four motives for European colonization
What are 1) the desire to spread Christianity? 2) the desire for wealth? 3) the hope of finding new trade routes to Asia? 4) the desire for fame, glory, and adventure?
This is the reason Europeans turned to Africans for cheap labor, rather than Native Americans.
What is disease, which was killing Native Americans in droves?
This is the major way that Plains Indians and Arctic tribes (like the Inuit) were similar.
They both used almost every element of the animals they hunted. The Plain Indians utilized every part of the buffalo -- food, weapons, clothing, housing; The Inuit would use every part of the seals/whales they hunted -- fuel, food, clothing, etc.
This cultural group had a strong military including powerful female soldiers who served as royal bodyguards.
This second cultural group believed there was great significance in The Golden Stool that their kings sat on.
What are the Dahomey?
What are the Asante?
This is what Protestant reformers were most upset about within the Catholic Church.
What is the corruption, power, and influence of the Catholic Church?
These are influences or events that led to the Age of Exploration being possible.
1) Improved technology -- better boats, maps, navigation tools; 2) Renaissance & Humanism which fostered curiosity; 3) Rise of trade and commerce encouraged people to find new routes to Asia; 4) Competition among Europeans in the mercantilist system; 5) Desire to spread Christianity; 6) Search for prestige, fame, and glory; 7) Fall of Constantinople blocked land routes to Asia
These are some of the cultural aspects that West Africans brought with them to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Religion like Yoruba and Voudou; Music and dance influenced blue grass, jazz, and gospel; their languages influenced different creoles; cuisine, art, oral tradition, etc.