Chapter 1-Converging Cultures Flashcards
What are two language grouping for American Indians
Algonquin & Iroqois
This is a far northern American Indian group
Inuit or Eskimos
Who was an important Iroquois leader?
Hiawatha
How was property ownership and leadership passed through Native American Indian culture?
Matrilineal through the female line
What animal had a great impact on changing the way of life for Great Plains Indians
horse
Eastern Native American Indians lived in _____.
Long houses
Great plains Indians lived in ____
Teepes
Northeast US Indians were primarily ___.
Iroquois
Southeast US Indians were primarily ___.
Cherokee
What type of farming did Southeast US Indians use?
Slash and burn
Many Iroquois practiced _____ to get their food
hunting and gathering
Inuit indians lived in _____ and used ____ during their long winter nights>
igloos and oil lamps
a good spirit for native americans is called a good ___
kachina
list five pacific ocean indian groups that primarily fished for food
chinook kwakiutls salish tlingit nootkas
what desert dominates north and west africa
sahara desert
list three empires in west africa
ghana
mali
songhai
what people were from the mali empire
malinke people
which empire was ruled by mansa musa and mansa sulayman?
Mali Empire
Where did the Edo people settle and create an empire?
Benin on the cost of Guinea and Ghana
What people were in the Songhai empire?
Sorko people
Black Slavery primarily was used on ___ plantations in the Caribbean.
Sugar Plantations
Who opened a school for navigation in Europe?
Prince Henry of Portugal
list four new navigation tools in Europe.
compass
astrolabe
caravels
lateen sails
who came to North America using longboats, settled, and then died off about 900.
Vikings
What explorer sailed for Portugal around Africa to India?
Vasco Da Gama
Where were most of Spain’s colonies?
South and Central America
Florida was known as the land of ____ by the Spanish.
Flowers
What was the first capital of the Spanish colonies?
Santo Domingo on Hispaniola
Who was the first European explorer to reach the Pacific in Central America?
Balboa for Spain
Who was the Spanish explorer to land on Watling Island in the Bahamas in 1492?
Christopher Columbus for Spain
Split the new world between Spanish and Portuguese
line of demarcation
The _____ was the sharing of crops, ideas, and tools between Africa, America, and Europe, a so called global interaction.
Columbian Exchange
The _____ was when oceans levels were lower exposing the Bering Land Bridge for migration routes.
Ice Age
From which continent is it believed that the first Americans came from?
Asia
What is used to determine age of artifacts found in archaeology?
radiocarbon dating
This is the earliest known civilization in Mexico?
Olmec
These people were master architects in Mexico.
Toltecs
These ancient people lived in cliffs like those found in Checo Canyon, New Mexico
Anasazi
This early North American civilization used irrigation in the Southwest US
Hohokam
which Mississippian culture built many Monunds in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys.
Adena
This was a great city near St. Louis for early Mississippian culture.
Cahokia
