Vocabulary
Groups of People who settles in permanent villages
Sedentary societies
Process of clearing land by cutting down and burning trees.
Slash and Burn
People who are captured for use in forced, unpaid labor.
Slaves
How do most Historians believe the "first Americans" migrated from Asia?
Crossing a land Bridge from Siberia and Alaska
Christian followers of the Roman Catholic Church
Catholics
region that stretches from modern-day Mexico to Nicaragua
Mesoamerica
A large Desert in Northern Africa.
Sahara
Follower of the religion of Islam
Muslim
How did the Inuit Adapt to their environment?
Built homes of Ice
Movement that divided the church between Catholics and Protestants
Reformation
Complex society in which people share key characteristics such as language and religion
Civilizations
West African kingdom that ruled from about 1200 to 1400
Mali
Religion popular in the Middle East
Islam
What is the main reason why the "first Americans" migrated to the Americas.
Search for Food and Shelter
Device that mechanically printed pages by pressing inked forms onto paper, invented around 1440
Printing Press
Central African kingdom in the 1400s that engaged in warfare and slavery
Kongo
widespread food shortage that killed thousands of Europeans
Great Famine
Ruler of Mali who founded a university to teach Islam.
Mansa Musa
The first Great American Civilization emerged in __________
Mesoamerica
Groups of people who settled in villages or towns but moved every few years in search of food.
Semisedentary Society
Central African kingdom that ruled during the 1400s
Ndongo
Counterclockwise ocean current that flows between Africa and South America
South Atlantic Current
In the early 1300s, the great famine and the ______________ killed millions of people.
Black Death
During the Reformation, a group of __________ broke away from the Catholic Church
Protestants
Native American civilization that developed in what is now Peru, 1400-1500
Inca