The Early Americas
What are settlements?
The vocabulary word for an entire way of life of a people.
What is culture?
The system of rule by lords who ruled land but owed loyalty and military service to the monarch.
What is feudalism?
The great burst of learning and technological innovation in Europe.
What is the Renaissance?
2 ways people may have first come to the Americas
The word for mud bricks dried in the sun.
What is adobe?
The most powerful force in Medieval Europe?
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
Where the astrolabe was created.
What is China?
The vocabulary word for a growth of extra food.
What is a surplus?
The vocabulary word for the process of spreading ideas from one culture to another.
What is diffusion?
The collection of trade routes the crossed the grasslands, mountains, and deserts of Central Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
The early American civilization that lived on terraces cut into the sides of mountains.
Who are the Inca?
The early South American civilization that created the 365 day calendar.
Who are the Mayans?
The culture region known for being so cold that the Native groups had to rely on hunting and fishing.
What is the arctic region?
One cause and one effect of the Crusades.
Cause: The Christians wanted to rule the Holy Land.
Effect: Increased trade between Christian and Muslim nations in the Middle East.
The Native American group who formed 5 nations.
Who are the Iroquois?
The early South American civilization that built their city around an island in a lake.
Who are the Aztecs?
The Native American group known for hunting buffalo and building tents from their hide.
Who are the Sioux?
What was one important resource that Africa traded with others?
Gold, copper, ivory, salt, coffee beans
Name the creator of the printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?