Chp. 1 History Vocabulary

Question 0

The earth begins to cool gradually, entering what scientists call a period of glaciation

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Ice Age

Question 1

To determine how old objects are, scientists rely on what?

Answer 1

Radiocarbon dating

Question 2

Huge ice sheets

Answer 2

Glaciers

Question 3

People who continually moved from place to place

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Nomads

Question 4

Occurred between 9,000 and 10,000 years ago in Mesoamerica

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Agricultural revolution

Question 5

The most important crop was a large-seeded grass

Answer 5

Maize

Question 6

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

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Civilization

Question 7

Volcanic glass

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Obsidian

Question 8

Circular ceremonial rooms

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Kivas

Question 9

Used by the Spanish to denote large housing structures built by the Anasazis

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Pueblo

Question 10

Good spirit

Answer 10

Kachina

Question 11

Cutting down parts of forests and then burning the cleared land, which left nitrogen-rich ashes, making it more fertile

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Slash-and-burn agriculture

Question 12

Large, rectangular building with barrel-shaped roofs covered in bark, used by some native Americans

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Longhouses

Question 13

Conical or dome-shaped houses built by native Americans using bent poles covered with hides or bark

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Wigwams

Question 14

Large groups of extended families

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Kinship groups

Question 15

At the edges of the Sahara, regions of scrub forest and a kind of rolling grassland

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Savannah

Question 16

Muslim place of worship

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Mosque

Question 17

Tracing descent or lineage through the maternal line

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Matrilineal

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Political system in which powerful leaders gave land to nobles in exchange for pledges of loyalty and service

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Feudalism

Question 19

Economic system in which peasants provide services to a feudal lord in exchange for protection

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Manorialism

Question 20

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

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Serfs

Question 21

French for rebirth, a period in Europe from 1350 to 1600 during which a rebirth of interest in the culture of Ancient Greece and Rome occurred

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Renaissance

Question 22

Device invented by the ancient Greeks and refined by Arab navigators. Used for to determine direction, latitude, and local time

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Astrolabe

Question 23

Small vessel capable of carrying about 130 tons of cargo

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Caravel

Question 24

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

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Line of demarcation

Question 25

Sail around, the globe

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Circumnavigate

Question 26

The arrival of European colonists in the Americas set in motion a series of complex interactions between peoples and environments

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Columbian exchange