Land-Bridge
The land-bridge theory suggests that these two (modern-day) continents were the location of where Paleo-Indians crossed over to first populate the Americas.
1)North America
2) Asia
These 2 groups adapted to the harsh conditions of the Arctic culture area.
What are the Aleut and Inuit?
A religion that spread rapidly over African trade routes, and followed by many African Kingdoms- such as Ghana, Songhai, and Mali.
What is Islam?
This is the early crop that both the Olmec and Maya grew.
What is maize (corn)
This is the earliest known civilization in North America
What is the Olmec
This is how the Incan Empire dealt with problems caused by its increasing size.
What are roads/ highway systems
A social system in medieval Europe in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and land in return.
What is Feudalism?
A well-known Malian (Kingdom of Mali) who was a devout Muslim and perhaps the most wealthy individual to over live on Earth.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Most Native Americans believed this about land rights.
Individual rights to land were only temporary-
NOT PERMANENT.
This was how scientists believed people first moved to the Americas (name and description)
What is the Bering Land Bridge
During the ice age, the sea level dropped and people crossed the newly exposed land bridge.
The cliff dwellings built by the Anasazi gave them protection against this.
What are enemies (defense)
The 1300s disease which originated on fleas on rats and traveled along Eurasian (European and Asian) trade routes. This killed an estimated 25 Million people.
DD- Wager
What were the unintentional consequences?
What is the Black Death?
-Better pay for peasants
-Larger cities
-Decline of Feudalism
-Beginning of Renaissance
The TWO things being traded most in and out of Africa at the time- which also leads to the eventual devastation of later Africans.
What are salt and slaves?
These were some of the cultural signs that Mississippians left behind.
This is how the Aztecs built such a rich and powerful state.
What is trade, tribute, and a fierce military?
Underground ceremonial chambers built at the center of a community.
What are Anasazi Kivas
Johannes Gutenberg created one of these- with movable type- which led to the ability of thousands of people to get new ideas.
What is the Printing Press
Followers of the Religion of Islam.
What are Muslims?
This is how a Matrilineal society is different than a Patrilineal society.
DD- (wager)
This is a Native American group that was Matrilineal.
Matrilineal societies trace ancestry (family) through the mother rather than the family.
-Who were the Mandan or Pawnee
Dailey Double!
*The group of people who traveled across the Bering Land bridge.
DD- (make wager)
Tell me a year in the range of when it happened.
What are Paleo-Indians
(38,000 BCE- 10,000 BCE)
The type of community that South-Eastern Native Americans lived in.
What are farming villages (governed by village councils)?
This European era, which means "rebirth" in French (not in Italian, funnily), saw what historians view as the ultimate period of knowledge, art, and culture.
DD- Wager
Name one poet/artist/writer/etc. from this period.
What is the Renaissance
DD- Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Gutenberg, Raphael, Donatello, Copernicus, Galileo
A Muslim pilgrimage to the city of Mecca-
Mansa Musa took a very extravagant one of these in 1324.
What is a Hajj?
Some religious beliefs shared by many indigenous groups.
What are:
-Strong tie to nature
-Spiritual forces everywhere (in animals & plants)
-Earth & Sky as sustainers of life