What were two important trade goods in West Africa?
100
The ruler divided it into provinces, named governors, judges, and tax collectors. Everyone used the same weights, measures and legal systems.
What ways was Songhai organized?
100
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What is Friday?
200
Large and sudden growth in population.
What is population explosion?
200
Raised levels of land
What are terraces?
200
Maize, corn
What is the most important crop grown by people in the Americas?
200
In West Africa, Ghana, Mali, and Songhai rose to power as _________ kingdoms.
What is trading?
300
A religious journey.
What is pilgrimage?
300
Paved roads in ancient times
What are causeways?
300
The developed a writing system, learned to farm on terraces, minted gold coins, and built great stone monuments.
What were some achievements of the Aksumites?
300
The climate became hotter and drier, and large game almost disappeared.
What caused hunting and food gathering bands to develop farming?
300
He ordered conquered peoples to worship the Inca sun god, made Quechua the official language, and moved people who had been living under Inca rule into newly conquered lands.
What is how Pachacuti hold the Inca Empire together?
400
System of trade in ancient Ghana
What is silent barter?
400
People who flee for safety
What are refugees?
400
It was on the Nile, it lay near large deposits of iron ore and trees to fuel smelting furnaces, it had good grazing land.
Why did the Kushites choose Meroe as their captial?
400
Extend their power over neighboring city-states, to dress in fine cotton and silk, and to fill their houses with riches from India and China.
What is how did the people of Kilwa use their wealth?
400
The Spaniards, who had guns and horses, defeated the Aztecs
What is how the Aztec Empire came to an end?
500
Grassy plains
What is savannahs?
500
A Mayan mathematics idea
What is zero?
500
They learned to worship the god Amon-Re and to work copper and bronze. They changed Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What did the Kushites learn from Egyptians?
500
A god-King
What is how did the people of Zimbabwe view their chief?