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Chapter 1-Converging Cultures Flashcards

1
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What are two language grouping for American Indians

A

Algonquin & Iroqois

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2
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This is a far northern American Indian group

A

Inuit or Eskimos

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3
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Who was an important Iroquois leader?

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Hiawatha

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4
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How was property ownership and leadership passed through Native American Indian culture?

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Matrilineal through the female line

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5
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What animal had a great impact on changing the way of life for Great Plains Indians

A

horse

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6
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Eastern Native American Indians lived in _____.

A

Long houses

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7
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Great plains Indians lived in ____

A

Teepes

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8
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Northeast US Indians were primarily ___.

A

Iroquois

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9
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Southeast US Indians were primarily ___.

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Cherokee

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10
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What type of farming did Southeast US Indians use?

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Slash and burn

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11
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Many Iroquois practiced _____ to get their food

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hunting and gathering

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12
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Inuit indians lived in _____ and used ____ during their long winter nights>

A

igloos and oil lamps

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13
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a good spirit for native americans is called a good ___

A

kachina

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14
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list five pacific ocean indian groups that primarily fished for food

A 
chinook
kwakiutls
salish
tlingit
nootkas
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15
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what desert dominates north and west africa

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sahara desert

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16
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list three empires in west africa

A

ghana
mali
songhai

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17
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what people were from the mali empire

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malinke people

18
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which empire was ruled by mansa musa and mansa sulayman?

A

Mali Empire

19
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Where did the Edo people settle and create an empire?

A

Benin on the cost of Guinea and Ghana

20
Q

What people were in the Songhai empire?

A

Sorko people

21
Q

Black Slavery primarily was used on ___ plantations in the Caribbean.

A

Sugar Plantations

22
Q

Who opened a school for navigation in Europe?

A

Prince Henry of Portugal

23
Q

list four new navigation tools in Europe.

A

compass
astrolabe
caravels
lateen sails

24
Q

who came to North America using longboats, settled, and then died off about 900.

A

Vikings

25
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What explorer sailed for Portugal around Africa to India?

A

Vasco Da Gama

26
Q

Where were most of Spain’s colonies?

A

South and Central America

27
Q

Florida was known as the land of ____ by the Spanish.

A

Flowers

28
Q

What was the first capital of the Spanish colonies?

A

Santo Domingo on Hispaniola

29
Q

Who was the first European explorer to reach the Pacific in Central America?

A

Balboa for Spain

30
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Who was the Spanish explorer to land on Watling Island in the Bahamas in 1492?

A

Christopher Columbus for Spain

31
Q

Split the new world between Spanish and Portuguese

A

line of demarcation

32
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The _____ was the sharing of crops, ideas, and tools between Africa, America, and Europe, a so called global interaction.

A

Columbian Exchange

33
Q

The _____ was when oceans levels were lower exposing the Bering Land Bridge for migration routes.

A

Ice Age

34
Q

From which continent is it believed that the first Americans came from?

A

Asia

35
Q

What is used to determine age of artifacts found in archaeology?

A

radiocarbon dating

36
Q

This is the earliest known civilization in Mexico?

A

Olmec

37
Q

These people were master architects in Mexico.

A

Toltecs

38
Q

These ancient people lived in cliffs like those found in Checo Canyon, New Mexico

A

Anasazi

39
Q

This early North American civilization used irrigation in the Southwest US

A

Hohokam

40
Q

which Mississippian culture built many Monunds in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys.

A

Adena

41
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This was a great city near St. Louis for early Mississippian culture.

A

Cahokia

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