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Where did Native Americans first grow things like maize and squash?

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Central Mexico

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What region’s people were grazing animals important for?

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Great Plains

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These Native Americans lived in wigwams

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Algonquians

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Who gave the most famous travel account during the Renaissance?

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Marco Polo

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What were things that were introduced to the Americas from the Columbian exchange?

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Pigs, horses, mules, sheep, cattle, wheat, barley, rye, oats, grasses, and grapes

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Columbus’ journeys to the Americas allowed what to happen?

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The growth of power and wealth of European Christendom, expansion of European commerce based on American riches (mineral and plantations + African slaves), development of new technologies, growth of military power

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This started the early years of the Middle Ages

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The collapse of the Roman Empire

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Horses changed the way of life for the Indians in this region.

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Hunt bison more easily and forcefully resist efforts to colonize their land

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What did the Europeans introduce to the Americas that caused a large amount of natives to die? (

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Disease (smallpox, typhus, diphtheria, bubonic plague, cholera)

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Why did Columbus supposedly seek a route to China?

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As a means of reviving the Christian struggle against Islam - convert the Chinese to Christianity and use their wealth and people for a new crusade

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This person explored a large part of South America. Enough to draw maps and consider it a continent

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Amerigo Vespucci

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This caused the population growth of Indians in central Mexico over 3,000 years ago.

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Expanded food supply (maize, squashes, beans)

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European society had extremes of poverty and wealth during this time period.

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Middle Ages

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How would you describe the political power of most American Indians?

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It was spread out amongst a variety of chiefs with limited authority

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What happened when the climate warmed about 12,000-10,000 years ago (or so the book says)?

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The environment became more diverse

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What resource is found in the Sahara

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Sahara

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This kingdom supplied the Mediterranean with a lot of gold in the 11th century.

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Ghana

18
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What type of ship did the Portuguese develop that helped with exploration?

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Caravals

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This country dominated trade routes in southern and eastern Africa in the 1400’s.

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Portugal

20
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What was Spain’s goal in the late 1400’s?

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Reach the coveted coast of China, so they could convert them to Chrisitanity, to help fight the Muslims in any further Crusades they were planning.

21
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Timbuktu was the site of an important learning center for what world?

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Africa

22
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This Native American group had a constitution that was passed down from each generation

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The Iroquois league

23
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What country first got involved in slave trade and greatly expanded it in Africa?

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Portugal

24
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This African empire took over for Mali.

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Songhai

25
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In the West African economy, who did land belong to?

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Land was divided up by kinship but kings could take the land away at will or give it to people they favored.

26
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How would you characterise slavery in West Africa?

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Common fate for war prisoners, not by race, children didn’t inherit it, could become wealthy, hold good positions.

27
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This is a type of sun-dried brick

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Adobe

28
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This was used to promote peaceful cooperation.

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Iroquois League

29
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What group did most people in Europe during the Middle Ages belong to?

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The peasants

30
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How did the printing press help society?

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Printing press lowered the cost and increased the volume of publishing, so more people became literare.

31
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Spain was created by the marriage of.

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Prince Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

32
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He expanded Mali’s domain and increased Islam

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Mansa Musa

33
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Was the most powerful kingdom in West Africa

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Songhai

34
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The Aztec ruler defeated by Cortez.

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Moctezuma

35
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He found out how to use the winds of the south Atlantic to get around southern Africa.

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Bartolomeu Dias

36
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To travel from one place to another

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Migrate

37
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This Portuguese man set up efforts to sail across the Atlantic

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Prince Henry the Navigator

38
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The time period that was marked by limited trade and a lack of strong nations

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Middle Ages?

39
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How was the political power of many Indians spread out?

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By local chiefs with limited power

40
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What key animal was introduced to the Americas through the Columbian exchange?

A

Horses

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