Vocabulary
What is Irrigation?
What is a method to water crops by channeling water from rivers or streams.
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
What is the first americans crossed a land bridge connecting Asia and North America.
What are moundbuilders?
what is People who construct large piles of earth.
Who founded the Islam teaching?
Who is Muhammad.
Who was Henry the Navigator?
Who is a portugese prince who taught crews about navigating and map making
What is Civilization?
An advanced culture in which people have developed cities, science, and industries.
What two empires were around in the 1400s?
What is the Aztec and Incan Empires.
How did farming transform native american society?
what is they creating currency, trading, and met the needs of the people like never before.
Where are trade networks linked?
What is the Middle east and West Africa.
What was Martin Luther known for in the Renaissance?
What is his criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and nailing his 95 theses to the door of the church.
What is Culture?
What is a way of life.
The Mayan Empire was active between?
250 A.D to 900 A.D.
What is Potlatch?
A ceremony at which the hosts showered their guests with gifts.
What was one of the greatest trade routes of ancient times?
What is the Silk Road.
What were the Crusades?
Bonus: How many crusades or battles were there in 200 years?
What is a holy war declared by the Roman Catholic church to win back the holy lands from the muslims.
Bonus: There were 9 crusades or battles over 200 years.
What is a Clan?
What is a groups of families that were related to one another.
What two big engineering advantages did the Aztec Empire invent?
What is Stone roadways and Floating irrigation platforms for farming.
What shared beliefs did native cultures have?
storytelling oral traditions, spirit dwelling in nature, and rituals.
Why did the silk road decline?
What is alternative sea routes were discovered.
Why was Vasco De Gama important?
He declared a trade route passed the southern tip of africa and continued north and east to India.
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What is Feudalism?
What is a system in which a ruler grants parts of his land to lords.
What 2 plants did they gather in Mexico that transformed life?
What were the Anasazi skilled at?
Making baskets, pottery, and jewelry.
What did the chinese invent in 1050?
What is the Printing with movable type
What is an astrolabe?
Bonus: What were the long term effects of the crusades?
what is an instrument to determine sailors precise latitude or distance from the equator.
Bonus: The spread of catholicism and christianity through the holy lands.