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The Earliest Americans
Cultures of North America
Trade Networks of Asia and Africa
The European Heritage
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the land bridge
What theory states that the earliest people came across a land bridge from
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spirits dwell in nature and are part of our daily life
What were the traditional beliefs of Native Americans?
100
Muhammad
Who was the founder and prophet of Islam?
100
Judaism
What major religious group was the first to teach monotheism?
100
kayak
What is a small boat made from animal skins?
200
the Mississipians
What Mound Building group built the first city, Cahokia, in North America?
200
the Anasazis
What Native group built cliff dwellings?
200
algebra, measured the Earth, ships with large, triangular sails
What types of technological advances were attributed to the Arabs?
200
the Roman Empire
Who first considered Christianity a threat, but later made it their main religion?
200
Vasco da Gama
Who was the first explorer to round the tip of Africa, discovering a new all-sea route to Asia?
300
learned to farm
What did gatherers begin to do 8,000 yrs. ago in Mexico?
300
Indians of the Southeast
What Native group celebrated the end of the growing season with the Green Corn Ceremony?
300
Zimbabwe
What was the center of the flourishing East African trade route?
300
Direct democracy
What type of government did the Greeks follow, which allowed an assembly of ordinary citizens to make decisions?
300
Prince Henry the Navigator
Who set up a center for exploration to expand Portuguese power and spread Christianity?
400
the Incas
What was the largest empire in the world in the 1400's?
400
Western Great Plains Natives
What Native group lived in the dry, largely treeless region, living in tepees, and hunting buffalo?
400
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
What are the three great West African trade empires?
400
the Roman Senate
What group did the Founding Fathers of the U.S. form the lawmaking body of our government after?
400
Protestants
Who protested and demanded that the Roman Catholic Church institute reforms?
500
Tenochtitlan
What capitol city was built, by the Aztecs, on a series of islands?
500
the Iroquois and the Algonquin
What two groups made up the Eastern Woodlands Natives?
500
the Silk Road
What major trade route stretched from Persia to Xi'an?
500
the Crusades
What battles allowed the Europeans to become exposed to differing cultures and ideas?
500
republic
What form of government has its people choose representatives to govern them?