Peopling the Americas
N. American Societies circa 1492
W. African Societies circa 1492
European Societies circa 1492
Transatlantic Encounters
100
“a Native American people that settled in the Valley of Mexico in the 1200s a.d. and later developed a powerful empire.”
What is "Aztec" ?
100
“ the ties between members of a family.”
What is "kinship?"
100
“a religion founded in Arabia in a.d. 622 by the prophet Muhammad; its believers are called Muslims.”
What is Islam?
100
a Genoese sailor who sailed to the West Indies on behalf of the Spanish Crown in 1492.
What is Christopher Columbus?
200
“ a Native American group that lived on the mesa tops, cliff sides, and canyon bottoms of the Four Corners region (where the present-day states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah meet) from about a.d. 100 to 1300.”
What is "Anasazi"?
200
“the assignment of different tasks and responsibilities to different groups or individuals. ”
What is "division of labor" ?
200
“ a large farm on which the labor of slaves or other workers is used to grow a single crop, such as sugar cane or cotton.”
What is plantation?
200
“a household made up of a mother, a father, and their children.”
What is nuclear family?
200
“ the establishment of outlying settlements by a parent country.”
What is colonization?
300
“the last and most complex of the Mound Builder societies, inhabiting the Ohio and Mississippi valleys from about a.d. 700 into the 1500s.”
What is "Mississippian"?
300
“a group of Native American peoples—descendants of the Anasazi—inhabiting the deserts of the Southwest.”
What is "Pueblo"?
300
“ a dry grassland dotted with trees and bushes, found in sub-Saharan Africa and other tropical or subtropical regions.”
What is savanna?
300
“a series of Christian military expeditions to the Middle East between a.d. 1096 and 1270, intended to drive the Muslims from the Holy Land. ”
What is Crusades?
300
“ the transfer—beginning with Columbus’s first voyage—of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere.”
What is Columbian Exchange?
400
“a Native American people that around a.d. 1400 created an empire reaching nearly 2,500 miles along the west coast of South America.”
What is "Inca"?
400
“a Native American people that formerly inhabited the coastal marshlands of what is now California.”
What is "Kashaya Pomo" ?
400
“a West African kingdom that flourished in the Niger Delta region (in what is now Nigeria) from the 14th to the 17th century. ”
What is Benin?
400
“a social ordering by rank or class. ”
What is hierarchy?
400
“a Native American people of the Caribbean islands—the first group encountered by Columbus and his men when they reached the Americas.”
What is Taino?
500
“a Native American people whose civilization flourished in what is now southern Mexico in the period 1200–400 b.c.”
What is "Olmec"?
500
“a Native American people that formerly inhabited the northwestern coastal region of North America.”
What is "kwakiutl"?
500
“an empire that, at the height of its power in the 1500s, controlled much of West Africa.”
What is Songhai?
500
Prince of Portugal in the 15th century, often referred to as"__________ the Navigator"
What is Prince Henry?
500
“he 1494 treaty in which Spain and Portugal agreed to divide the lands of the Western Hemisphere between them.”
What is Treaty of Tordesillas?