Natives
While sometimes diverse, one common theme of many American Indian religious beliefs was…?
The importance of one’s connection with the physical environment.
Describe the importance of the voyage around the world led by Magellan?
What is This was the first time a crew was able to circumnavigate the globe.
A social system existing in medieval Europe in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and land in return.
What is Feudalism?
What effect did glaciers have on ancient humans during the last ice age?
They created a land bridge that allowed humans to travel from Asia to the Americas.
How were the Olmec able to support a civilization and cities?
What is a surplus of food?
Which country did most European explorers come from?
What is Spain
A wide shelf of land cut into a hillside
Terrace Farming
In what way did Chinese civilization differ from other ancient world civilizations?
It was geographically and politically isolated from outsiders
How did the Hohokam adapt to living in a desert land?
They dug irrigation ditches from the rivers to their farms.
What were some of the positive and negative consequences of the Columbian Exchange in North America?
Positives: Spread of food, culture, people escaped religious persecution
Negatives: The Europeans brought disease and started the slave trade
Cords with knots that stood for numbers and served as message recording devices.
What is a Quipu?
Which was the main way the Incas modified their environment to grow more food?
What is by building Terrace Farming?
What role did women play in the Iroquois League?
Women chose the clan leaders, were in charge of planting and harvesting, men lived with the women's families
Where did Columbus believe he had founded when he landed in the Caribbeans?
The Indies
What is a Raised dirt road?
What is a Causeway
What were some possible military advantages of Techtitlan’s location? Explain your reasoning.
Answers may vary
How did farming improve the lives of the ancient people who first practiced it? Use examples of different Native cultures to support your answer.
Incas- Terrace Farming
Maya- Drained swamps and cleared forests
Aztecs- floating gardens or Chinampas
Why was religion important in European cultures?
Christianity, Judaism and Islam allowed for trade to spread because of the Crusades.
A group of five nations that joined together to end the fight between them.
Who is the Iroquois League?
What are some of the greatest achievements of early civilizations in the Americas?
365 day calendar, farming, magnetic compass, astrolabe, Chinampas etc...