Early Americas
During the Ice Age, large amounts of water froze into glaciers. This caused ocean levels to fall and exposed this connection between Asia and North America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai became wealthy largely because they controlled this activity across West Africa.
What is trade?
This political and social system dominated medieval Europe.
What is feudalism?
This explorer helped Europeans recognize that the Americas were continents separate from Asia.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
This term describes the exchange that developed among Europe, Africa, and the Americas after contact.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Spanish soldiers who traveled to the Americas seeking things such as glory, land, and wealth were called this.
What are conquistadors?
This early Mesoamerican civilization is famous for enormous carved stone heads and impressive architecture.
Who were the Olmec?
Why was salt as valuable a resource as gold?
It was used in preserving food.
The Pope called for Europeans to capture this sacred region, beginning the Crusades.
What is the Holy Land?
This explorer crossed Panama and became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.
Who was Vasco Núñez de Balboa?
This was the primary goal of Europeans in America.
What is collecting gold?
This woman served as an important translator and adviser to Hernán Cortés.
Who was Malintzin?
This civilization made major advances in mathematics, astronomy, calendars, and writing.
Who were the Maya?
This famous ruler of Mali is remembered for his enormous wealth and his journey to Mecca.
Who was Mansa Musa?
The Crusades increased this economic activity between Europe and Asia.
What is trade?
This explorer led the expedition that became the first to sail around the world.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
These had a devastating impact on Native American populations, killing up to 95% of them.
What are diseases?
Cortés's defeat of the Aztec was aided by these factors.
Better technology, disease, and Native American Allies.
This civilization created a powerful empire centered at Tenochtitlán.
Who were the Aztec?
When Mansa Musa greatly increased the amount of gold available in some places, decreasing its value because of this principle.
What is scarcity?
This disaster killed about one-third of Europe's population and created a shortage of workers.
What is the Black Death?
This Spanish explorer traveled through the Gulf Coast and Florida.
Who was de Caca??
Europeans received these from the Americas, changing diets in Europe.
What are new foods/crops?
This system was defined by Native Americans being forced to work on Spanish plantations, mines, and haciendas.
What is the econmienda system?
This civilization was known for its uncharacteristic strong central government and road system.
Who were the Inca?
This leader of Songhai was the last of the great leaders of West Africa.
Who was Askia the Great?
The shortage of workers caused by the Black Death caused this.
What is the end of feudalism?
These explorers survived a disastrous expedition and traveled through the American Southwest.
Who were Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Corandado?
DAILY DOUBLE: This reason is why American cultures were as advanced as European cultures but less technologically advanced.
They had no work animals so they had to spend more time farming.
Disease caused massive Native American population loss. The resulting shortage of workers contributed to an increase in this practice.
What is African Slavery?