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Europe before Transatlantic Travel
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The first peoples in the Americas.
What are Paleo-Indians?
100
The four early civilizations in Mesoamerica and South America.
What are Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Inca
100
Three of the wealthiest and powerful West African Kingdoms in order of rise to power
What are Ghana, Mali, Songhai
100
Led to increased trade with Asia
What are the Crusades?
100
Building for Muslim prayer, equivalent to a church
What is a mosque?
200
The first peoples in the Americas crossed the blank from Siberia, Asia to Alaska.
What is Bering Land Bridge
200
Built by the Anasazi gave them protection against enemies
What are cliff dwellings?
200
Mali's blank and Songhai's Askia the Great were both Muslims.
Who is Mansa Musa?
200
In the mid- 1400s developed a printing press that used movable type
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
200
Set of common values and traditions
What is culture?
300
Kept records on a system of knotted strings called quipu
What are the Inca?
300
Aboveground houses made of a heavy clay called abode
What are pueblos?
300
Helped construct mosques in the kingdom of Ghana.
What are the Berbers?
300
Wrote the Republic which described an ideal society
Who is Plato?
300
Roman government was a ________
What is republic?
400
They hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
400
Mound builders were skilled farmers and traders.
What are the Hopewell and Mississippian
400
It gained wealth from taxes and by controlling trade in salt and gold.
What is Ghana?
400
During the Renaissance the focus was less on religion and more on people
What is humanism?
400
To strengthen the alliance against invasion was the goal of this group of 5 peoples
What is the Iroquois League?
500
Aztec capital, greatest city in the Americas, one of the world's largest cities
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
Native Americans believed that individual ownership of blank only applied to crops.
What is land?
500
Important to the West African economy because ______ could be traded for valuable goods in the Middle East and Europe
What is the slave trade?
500
In the Middle Ages, nobles exchanged land for military service with
What is a knight?
500
Businesses in which a group of people invest together
What is are joint-stock companies?