history chpt. one vocab

Question 0

A 100,000 years ago the Earth began to cool gradually, entering what scientists called a period of glaciation

Answer 0

Ice ages

Question 1

Scientists rely on ……. To determine how old objects are.

Answer 1

Radiocarbon dating

Question 2

Huge ice sheets

Answer 2

Glaciers

Question 3

People who continually moved from place to place

Answer 3

Nomads

Question 4

9,000-10,000 years ago when early Americans learned how to plant and raise crops

Answer 4

Agricultural Revolution

Question 5

Known as corn today

Answer 5

Maize

Question 6

A highly organized society marked by trade, government, the arts, science, and often a written language

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Civilization

Question 7

Volcanic glass

Answer 7

Obsidian

Question 8

An Anasazi made circular ceremonial room

Answer 8

Kivas

Question 9

Large housing structures; multi-story with Adobe cut stone and long passageways; built for the Anasazi

Answer 9

Pueblos

Question 10

The pueblo people thought a …… Was a good spirit

Answer 10

Kachina

Question 11

Cut down parts of the forest and then burn the cleared land so that the ashes would enrich the soil and make it more fertile

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Slash-and-burn agriculture

Question 12

Large rectangular houses with barrel shaped roofs covered in bark

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Long houses

Question 13

Conical or dome shaped and were made using bent poles covered with hides or bark

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Wigwams

Question 14

Extended families; Iroquoian peoples lived in these

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Kinship groups

Question 15

Regions of scrub forest and a kind of rolling grassland at the edges of the Sahara

Answer 15

Savannah

Question 16

Muslim places of worship

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Mosques

Question 17

People who trace their lineage or descent through their mother rather than their fathers

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Matrilineal

Question 18

A new political system in Western Europe; a king would give estates to nobles in exchange for loyalty and military support

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Feudalism

Question 19

The economic ties between nobles and peasants; in return for protection, peasants provided various services for the Lord

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Manorialism

Question 20

People who were bound to the manor and could not leave without permission

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Serfs

Question 21

In intellectual revolution; it means “rebirth”; Europeans rediscovered the works of Greek and Roman philosophers, geographers, and mathematicians

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Renaissance

Question 22

A device invented by the ancient Greeks and refined by Arab navigators; it uses the position of the sun to determine the direction, latitude, and local time

Answer 22

Astrolabe

Question 23

A small vessel capable of carrying about 130 tons of cargo

Answer 23

Caravel

Question 24

An imaginary north-to-south line running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 24

The line of Demarcation

Question 25

Sail around the globe

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Circumnavigate

Question 26

A series of complex interactions between peoples and environments that permanently altered the worlds ecosystem and changed nearly every culture around the world

Answer 26

Colombian Exchange