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The First Americans
Early Societies
Early Europe, Asia, and Africa
European Exploration
Vocabulary
100

What is the earliest known civilization in North America?

What is the Olmecs

100

This group settled in the arctic region.

What is the Inuit

100

He was the emperor of Mali that acquired a lot of wealth.

What is Mansa Musa

100

This culture group followed the buffalo and used all parts of it.  

What is the Plains Indians? 

100
This invention helped to spread the Renaissance ideas.
What is the printing press?
200

This civilization built a huge network of roads.

What is the Incas.

200

Archeologists found shells, turquoise, bear teeth, and other objects inside the mounds. What did this prove?

What is that the mound builders traded.

200

This organization helped to unify the people during the feudal era?

What is Roman Catholic Church?

200
What does the term Renaissance mean?
What is a rebirth of learning and arts.
200
What early crop did both the Olmecs and Mayans grow?
What is corn or maize?
300

Their capital was called Tenochtitlan?

What is Aztecs

300

This society had five tribes that banded together into a Confederacy in order to avoid conflicts.

Who are the Iroquois?

300

This linked China with the Middle East.

What is the Silk Road

300

How did the Columbian exchange affect Native Americans? 

It brought diseases which killed many of them. 

300
This new invention helped sailors determine their latitude while at sea.
What is the astrolabe?
400

They developed an elaborate calendar.

Who are the Mayas?

400

While Native American tribes were different, one thing they had in common was a respect for ____________.

What is nature or the land.

400

This was the main cause of the decline of feudalism.

What is the growth of trade

400
How do Americans think the first people came to the Americas.
What is they crossed the land bridge during the Ice Age when the water froze or the coastal route theory when they went in boats down the coast.
400
This is what Europeans were looking for when they set sail for the Americas.
What is a sea route to Asia.
500

How did the Incas improve farming?

What is they built terraces?

500

Whose crew was the first to sail around the world?

What is Magellan?

500

These were fought to convert Muslims to Christianity.

What is the Crusades?

500
This was the first European country to build an empire in the Americas?
What is Spain
500
This language was a blend of Arabic words and local African languages.
What is Swahili?