Ch. 1 SS Flashcards

1
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movement of people or animals from one region to another

A

migration

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2
Q

climate and landscape that surround living things

A

environments

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3
Q

People who crossed the Bering Land Bridge into Alaska between 38,000 and 10,000 BC

A

Pale-Indians

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4
Q

A group’s set common values and traditions

A

cultures

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5
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Paleo-Indians that lived by hunting animals and gathering wild plants

A

hunter-gathers

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6
Q

a strip of solid land believed to have once connected Asia and present-day Alaska

A

Bering Land Bridge

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7
Q

above ground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe

A

Pebloes

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8
Q

The Anasazi build underground ceremonial chambers

A

kiosk

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9
Q

tall wooden poles created by Native Americans living in the Pacific Northwest

A

totems

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10
Q

cone-shaped shelter that was used by Native Americans

A

teepees

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11
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Five Iroquois nations formed a political alliance called

A

Iroquois Land

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12
Q

group of people from Northern Africa who controlled the trade routes

A

Berbers

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13
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Mali’s most famous ruler and a Muslim King

A

Mansa Musa

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14
Q

pilgrimage to Mecca

A

Hajj

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15
Q

building for Muslim prayer

A

Mouskes

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16
Q

one of Songhai’s greatest rulers was Muhammed Ture became known as

A

Askia the Great

17
Q

three greatest Greek thinkers or philosophers

A

Scrats, Plato and Aristotle

18
Q

Aristotle taught that people should live their lives based on

A

reason

18
Q

a form of government in which people rule themselves

A

democracy

19
Q

warriors who fought on horseback

A

knights

20
Q

disease that was caused by rats infected with the plague

A

black death

21
Q

two greatest Renaissance artists

A

Michelangelo and Leonardo De Vinci

22
Q

person who developed a printing press that used moveable type

A

Johannes Glutenberg

23
Q

business in which a group of people invest together

A

Joint-stock compines