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The World Before the Opening of the Atlantic Flashcards

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A land bridge between northeastern Asia and present-day Alaska. It helped people cross into North America.

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Bering Land Bridge.

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Who crossed the Bering Land Bridge to Alaska?

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The Paleo-Indians

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A movement of people or animals from one region to another

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Migration

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People who hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food

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Hunter-Gatherers

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Climates and landscapes that surround living things

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Environment

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Is a group’s set of common values and traditions,including language,government, and family relationships

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Culture

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Aboveground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe

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Pueblos

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Underground ceremonial chambers

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Kivas

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Ancestor or animal spirits on tall, wooden posts

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Totems

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Cone-shaped shelters

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Teepees

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Ancestry traced through their mothers, not their fathers

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Matrilineal

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This confederation,or alliance,was established by the Cayuga,Mohawk,Oneida,and Seneca

First type of government and only native american alliance formed

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Iroquois League

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A group of people from northern Africa

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Berbers

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Pilgrimage to Mecca

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Haji

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Buildings for Muslim prayer

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Mosques

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Mali’s most famous ruler

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Mansa Musa

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One of Songhai’s greatest rulers, his real name was Muhammad Ture

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Askia the Great

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A great teacher who wanted to make people think and question their own beliefs

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Socrates

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A philosopher and teacher who wrote a work called “The Republic”

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Plato

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Taught that people should live lives based on reason

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Aristotle

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Clear and ordered thinking

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Reason

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A form of government in which people rule themselves

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Democracy

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Warriors who fought on horseback

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Knights

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The plague; a disease spread across Europe killing an estimated 25 million people

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BlackDeath

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Two of the greatest Renaissance artists

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Michelangelo and Leonardo Di Vinci

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A German man who developed a printing press that used movable type, it allowed an entire page to be printed out at once

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Johannes Gutenberg

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Business in which a group of people invest together

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Joint-stock companies

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What was the Ice Age?

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A time when Earth’s climate was intensely cold

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Why were the early people able to use the Bering Land Bridge?

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Because the sea levels were low and the land bridge was formed

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What is the earliest known civilization in the Americas and where was it located?

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The Olmec. It is located in Mesoamerica

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How did the Aztec build such a powerful, rich state?

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By having cotton, gold, and food. They also had strong alliances and armies.

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Why did the Anasazi build kivas?

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Because they were sacred places and they were used for religious ceremonies

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What different types of housing were built by the Anasazi?

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Pueblos, Cliff Dwellings, and Pit houses

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Why were mounds built in the same shape of birds and snakes?

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They worshipped nature in animals

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What are culture areas?

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The geographic locations that influenced society

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What did the North and Northwest Native Americans eat?

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Fish, and large mammals

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What did the Native Americans in the West and Southwest eat?

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Maize, squash, and beans

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What were the most valuable trade items in West Africa?

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Salt and Gold

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How did some people become slaves?

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Being captured in battles or they were criminals

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When citizens elect representatives to make laws

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Republic

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Name the feudalism pyramid from top to bottom.

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Pope
King
Nobles
Knights
Peasants
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How were people unified in the Middle Ages?

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They were all unified by the Catholic Church since nearly everyone in Europe was Catholic

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What are Crusades?

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Holy wars created by European Christians against Muslim Turks

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What was the goal of the Crusades?

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To recapture the Holy Land, the land where Jesus lived

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What were the Renaissance Men and Women?

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Well rounded people , knowledgable in the arts,science, literature, and reason

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What was a key feature in the Renaissance?

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Love of art and education

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