Africa and Mesoamerica Review | 5/3

Question 1

Climate Zones

Answer 1

Desert, Savanna, Rain forest, Mediterranean

Question 2

Savanna

Answer 2

Grass lands

Question 3

Sahara Desert

Answer 3

Desert in Africa

Question 4

Great Rift Valley

Answer 4

Where African civilization began

Question 5

Mansa Musa

Answer 5

Leader of Mali; richest man alive

Question 6

Patrilineal

Answer 6

When ancestry is traced through the fathers side

Question 7

Matrilineal

Answer 7

When ancestry is traced through the mothers side

Question 8

How did the geography of Africa affect the cultures that developed there?

Answer 8

Trade, economy, food, farming

Question 9

What goods were the most important to West African civilizations?

Answer 9

salt and gold

Question 10

What were the achievements of each African civilization?

Answer 10

Kush were the first Africans to use iron, Axum remained christian despite Islamic invasion, Ghanas became wealthy through trade, and in Mali, Timbuktu became the cultural learning center of Africa

Question 11

Bering Land Bridge

Answer 11

Bering Strait, connected Asia to North America. How the people of the far north traveled

Question 12

1st people in America’s

Answer 12

people from the far north

Question 13

Pueblo

Answer 13

Homes made out of Adobe

Question 14

Adobe

Answer 14

Material used for making Pueblos; sun dried clay

Question 15

Potlatch

Answer 15

traditional feasts to show people’s wealth

Question 16

Sachem

Answer 16

Ancient word for chief

Question 17

Longhouse

Answer 17

Houses used by Native Americans, Iroquois

Question 18

Olmec

Answer 18

Best known for their giant head sculptures

Question 19

Human Sacrifice

Answer 19

Associated with the Aztecs; believed the sun would only be happy if it had human blood

Question 20

What were the major crops grown in the Americas?

Answer 20

Corn, Beans and squash

Question 21

What were the achievements of each Mesoamerican civilization? Review chart

Answer 21

The Mayans contributed to math, the concept of zero, the writing system and the calendar. The Aztecs contributed to architecture and engineering and the Incas contributed to terrace farming, had a network of roads, and machu picchu.