America, Africa, and Europe before 1500
A land bridge between Asia and present-day Alaska that was exposed by the lower sea levels of the Ice Age.
What is the Bering Land Bridge
Cone-shaped shelters made of animal hides by the nomadic plains people.
What is a teepee
a Muslim king who ruled the Mali Empire at the height of its power and who spread Islamic influence through a large part of West Africa.
Who is Mansa Musa
Greek philosopher who believed people should live based on reason and clear and ordered thinking
Who is Aristotle
People believed to have crossed the Bering Land Bridge.
Who is the Paleo-Indians
An alliance of Native Americans in northeastern North America.
What is the Iroquois League
The Muslim ruler who led Songhai to the height of its power.
Askia the Great
A form of government in which people rule themselves.
What is a democracy
How did the formation of glaciers during the Ice Ag allow for migration to North America?
When glaciers formed, water levels in the oceans dropped exposing the Bering Land Bridge between Asia and Alaska.
An underground ceremonial chamber at the center of each Anasazi community?
What is a kiva
What was the primary source of the wealth and power of all the West African empires?
control of trade routes
Three of the greatest Greek thinkers
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Why do you think the migration of early peoples in the Americas flowed north to south?
Warmer climates, and following herds
What was the significance of the characters carved on totem poles?
Characters were representations of animal or ancestor spirits with religious or spiritual significance.
What did Mansa Musa build as a place for Muslims to pray and worship?
What is a mosque
Wrote a work called The Republic.
Who is Plato
What was the greatest city in the Americas during the height of the Aztec culture?
What is Tenochtitlan
What belief did all Native Americans share?
What river flowed through both Ghana and Mali?
What is the Niger River
Who invented the printing press and how did this impact their society?
Who is Johannes Gutenberg. For the first time, people could read the same books and share ideas about them.