Chapter 1: Colliding Worlds

Question 1

Semi Sedentary Societies

Answer 1

societies whose members combine slash-and-burn agriculture with hunting and fishing. They live in large groups during the summer, redisperse during the winter, and rejoin in the spring to plant crops.

Question 2

Mississippian Culture

Answer 2

a Native American culture complex that flourished in the Mississippi River and the Southeast regions. Characterized by maize agriculture, mound building, and distinctive pottery styles, they were complex chiefdoms usually located along the floodplains of rivers.

Question 3

Crusades

Answer 3

a series of wars undertaken by Christian armies between A.D. 1096 and 1291 to reverse the Muslim advance in Europe and win back the Holy Lands

Question 4

Protestant Reformation

Answer 4

the reform movement that began with Martin Luther’s critiques of the Roman Catholic Church. This precipitated an enduring schism

Question 5

Counter-Reformation

Answer 5

a reaction in the Catholic Church triggered by the Reformation that sought change from within

Question 6

Plantation System

Answer 6

a system of labor in which unfree labor produced cash crops for far away markets