Earliest Americans
During the Ice Age, lower sea levels exposed this land connection between Asia and North America
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
The Anasazi, Hopewell, and Mississippian cultures all practiced this way of producing food.
What is farming?
This was the first of three great West African trading kingdoms.
What is Ghana?
This ruler of Mali became famous for his pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This form of government developed in ancient Greece and allowed citizens to participate in government.
What is democracy?
This is the movement of people or animals from one region to another.
What is migration?
Pacific Northwest Native Americans carved ancestors and animal spirits on these tall wooden poles.
What are totem poles?
These were the three powerful West African trading kingdoms studied in the module.
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
This Greek philosopher wrote The Republic.
Who is Plato?
This deadly disease caused a major population decline during the Middle Ages.
What is the Black Death?
These early people migrated into the Americas, following animal herds as they moved.
Who were the Paleo-Indians?
These underground ceremonial rooms were important to Pueblo peoples.
What are kivas?
These two valuable resources were at the center of West African trade.
What are gold and salt?
This Greek teacher encouraged people to think and question their own beliefs.
Who is Socrates?
The Crusades and Marco Polo's travels helped increase this economic activity in Europe.
What is trade?
This was the earliest known civilization to develop in Mesoamerica.
Who were the Olmec?
This strongly influenced Native American groups' foods, homes, and ways of life in different regions.
What is geography/the environment?
This important river was connected to the development and trade of the West African kingdoms.
What is the Niger River?
This Greek philosopher taught that people should use reason, or clear and ordered thinking.
Who is Aristotle?
This period was considered a “rebirth” in European art and learning.
What is the Renaissance?
These four major civilizations developed in Mesoamerica and South America.
Who were the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca?
In many Native American cultures, individuals did not permanently own this, although crops could temporarily belong to individuals.
What is land?
Ghana's position between sources of these two resources helped it become wealthy through trade
What are gold and salt?
This inventor's movable type made books easier and eventually less expensive to produce.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
Scholars fleeing Turkish conquest brought classical writings from this empire into Italy.
What is the Byzantine Empire?