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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
What culture group settled in the Arctic area?
What is the Inuits
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
He defeated the Incas.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
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?