Chapter 1 test cards Flashcards
A place or region newly settled
Settlement
A society - or a people sharing a language, territory and economy - that has certain basic features.
Civilization
A political unit that controls a city and i’ts surrounding land.
City-state
A system of rule by lords who ruled their own lands but owed loyalty and military service to a monarch.
Feudalism
The global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
Columbian exchange
Between 1100 and 1300, the series of wars fought by Christians to control Palestine or the Holy Land.
Crusades
A network of over land trade routes linking China to the Middle East.
Silk road
The burst of learning in Europe in the late 1300s to about 1600.
Renaissance
An entire way of life developed by a people.
Culture
A region in which people share a similar way of life.
Culture-region
A community of people that share common customs, language and rituals.
Tribe
The alliance of the Iroquois nation
Iroquois league
An area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land.
Colony
To travel all the way around the world.
Circumnavigate
In 1519, which Portuguese explorer sailed across the Pacific?
Ferdinand Magellan
Who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
When did Christopher Columbus see land?
October 12th 1492
The American Indians of North America were influenced by what?
The physical characteristics of the area where they lived
The classes of the Southeast region were what?
Great sun, Little suns, nobles, honored people, stinkards
Name the 5 Iroquois groups
Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga
Where did the Mound Builders emerge?
Between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi Valley
How do most scientists believe that people crossed into North America?
The land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska
The earliest known civilization in the Americas was the …
Olmec
Where was the Olmec civilization?
Present-day Mexico
How long ago did the Maya civilization begin?
About 3,000 years
Which civilization made advances in astronomy and mathmatics?
Maya
What is the Aztec capital?
Tenochtitlan
Where is Tenochtitlan?
Island in the middle of a large lake
The ruler in the Southeast region was called what?
The great sun
What was a powerful influence on Western Europe?
The Catholic Church
