Native Tribes
This tribe developed a yearly calendar and a written language with pictures and lived in Central America. (Hint: They predicted the world would end in 2012!)
Who are the Mayans?
These two popular items of trade were very valuable in African Empires.
What is gold and salt?
This is the French author of Democracy in America. (Spelling must be correct for full points)
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?
This is a political system in which a king allows nobles or lords to used lands belonging to the king.
What is Feudalism?
This European explorer wanted to find a faster route from Europe to Asia and so decided to sail west until he struck land, ending up in the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
These tribes were mound-builders (3 tribe names).
Who are the Olmecs, Mississippians, Adena and Hopewell?
This African Empire capitalized on trade that came in and out of their country, making the king rich through the tax placed on trade routes.
What is the Empire of Ghana?
This is the name of the river and valley that de Tocqueville speaks so highly of in Chapter 1.
What is the Mississippi River/Mississippi Valley?
This was the name of the period/era/age where trade was revived in Europe and more exact ways of keeping records of business income and costs helped determine profit.
What is the Renaissance Period?
This explorer was a Conquistador from Spain and conquered Montezuma and the Aztecs in 1521.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
These tribes lived far north and speared seals, whales and walruses.
What are the Inuit and Aleut tribes?
This African Empire was south of Ghana and was able to control trade on the upper Niger river.
What is the Empire of Mali?
These were the names of the mountain ranges that de Tocqueville describes as paralleling the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. (2 mountain ranges)
What are the Rocky Mountains and the Allegheny Mountains?
This country had beef with both Portugal and England over territory disputes.
What is Spain?
This Italian Explorer realized the New World was not Asia and ended having the New World named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
These tribes were descended from Pueblo People and built strong adobe houses and canals to irrigate their crops (2 tribes).
Who are the Hohokam and the Anasazi?
This African Empire's leader captured the city of Timbuktu, and they set up an organized form of government. (Double points if you can name the leader!)
What is the Empire of Songhai?
Who is Sunni Ali?
This is the people group de Tocqueville describes that the Natives have no history of and their "heaps of earth" stretch along the Ohio River and the central valley.
Who are the Mound Builders?
This widespread transfer of goods to and from the Old World to the New World resulted in altered life on three continents, bringing new crops, resources, and livestock to both regions.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Portuguese explorer sailed around South America and is often believed to be the first person to circumnavigate the globe but actually died before completing the journey.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This was the name of the alliance formed between five nations of the Eastern Woodland tribes where they abided by the Great laws of Peace.
What is the Iroquois League?
This is the percent of how much of Africa is dense, tropical forests.
What is 75%?
de Tocqueville describes these two regions and their territory/range. These are the landmarks he uses to measure the two regions. (Ex: Region 1 stretches from _____ to ____, while region two stretches from _____ to _____ and are boxed in by __________)
What is the Arctic to the Great lakes, and the Great Lakes to the Equator, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
This movement was the forceable removal of Africans to the Americas between 1500 and the late 1800’s.
What is the African Diaspora?
This English explorer who sailed for the Dutch ended up in current day New York and had a river named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?