Ch. 1 SS Flashcards
movement of people or animals from one region to another
migration
climate and landscape that surround living things
environments
People who crossed the Bering Land Bridge into Alaska between 38,000 and 10,000 BC
Pale-Indians
A group’s set common values and traditions
cultures
Paleo-Indians that lived by hunting animals and gathering wild plants
hunter-gathers
a strip of solid land believed to have once connected Asia and present-day Alaska
Bering Land Bridge
above ground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe
Pebloes
The Anasazi build underground ceremonial chambers
kiosk
tall wooden poles created by Native Americans living in the Pacific Northwest
totems
cone-shaped shelter that was used by Native Americans
teepees
Five Iroquois nations formed a political alliance called
Iroquois Land
group of people from Northern Africa who controlled the trade routes
Berbers
Mali’s most famous ruler and a Muslim King
Mansa Musa
pilgrimage to Mecca
Hajj
building for Muslim prayer
Mouskes
one of Songhai’s greatest rulers was Muhammed Ture became known as
Askia the Great
three greatest Greek thinkers or philosophers
Scrats, Plato and Aristotle
Aristotle taught that people should live their lives based on
reason
a form of government in which people rule themselves
democracy
warriors who fought on horseback
knights
disease that was caused by rats infected with the plague
black death
two greatest Renaissance artists
Michelangelo and Leonardo De Vinci
person who developed a printing press that used moveable type
Johannes Glutenberg
business in which a group of people invest together
Joint-stock compines
