General WH Questions
This revolution began in 1776 in the American colonies
What is the American Revolution?
What does the term "mesoamerican" mean?
The term literally translates to "Middle America".
Extends from southern/central Mexico through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras
What four major goods did Mali trade?
Gold, salt, Slaves and Copper
A self-sufficient estate operated by a lord and worked by serfs.
Manor
People vote on a person to make choices for them.
Republic
This revolution transformed economies with factories and machines.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This crop was the main food source for most Mesoamerican civilizations.
What is maize (corn)?
Ghana was called the _______ because it had an abundance of this precious metal
"Land of Gold"
Were a series of intermittent military campaigns in the years from 1096 to 1487, sanctioned by various Popes
Crusades
Economic troubles and overreliance on enslaved labor
What is the reasons for the fall of the "Roman Empire."
This exchange of goods, animals, and diseases followed Columbus’s voyage.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What were the three sisters of food crops in the Mesoamerican civilizations?
Maize, squash, beans
________ was the largest and most powerful West African Empire
Songhai
A medieval European social and political system (roughly 9th–15th centuries) where land was exchanged for loyalty and service.
The entire system relied on exchanging land, known as a "fief," for military or agricultural service.
Feudalism
Key causes included economic decline (inflation, taxes), political corruption, military reliance on mercenary forces,
What is reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire?
This political system is ruled by a king or queen.
What is monarchy?
The Maya developed this advanced system of writing using symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
"Land of Gold", 1st West African Empire, traded gold for salt
Ghana
Epidemic outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe that killed between one-third and two-thirds of the population in less than five years.
Black Death
Roman officials were often guilty of this dishonest practice
What is Corruption?
This Enlightenment thinker believed in separation of powers.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
Houses made of cedar that were used by coastal tribes that could house several families. They were permanent dwellings.
Longhouses
This continent is the second-largest. It is widely regarded as the birthplace of man because the oldest human bones on record have been found there.
Africa
This document outlined the rights of the rebellious noble and they forced King John to except it.
The King is not above the law and must follow it.
The Term for this definition starts with a "M"
The Magna Carta
This economic problem caused money to lose value and prices to rise.
What inflation?