Chapter 1 Flashcards
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This is an advanced culture with developed science and industries.
Civilization
A method to water crops by channeling water from a river or stream.
Irrigation
A thick sheet of ice.
Glacier
Another name for extra.
Surplus
The discovery of this meant families did not have to search for food.
Farming
They created the most accurate calendar known until modern times.
Maya
They built the city of Tenochtitlan on a series of islands..
Aztecs
They had the world’s largest empire in the 1400’s.
Inca
In a ____________, groups of people have a similar way of life.
Culture area
Woven cloth, baskets, canoes and furs were common gifts at a ___________.
Potlatch
Women in Iroquois clans chose the clan’s ________, or tribal chief.
Sachem
This is what a group of Iroquois families that were related to one another were called.
Clan
The Anasazi lived in large ________________.
cliff dwellings
This Indians of the Southeast held a _________in late summer.
Green Corn Ceremony
What two large Native American groups dominated the Eastern Woodlands?
Algonquin & Iroquois
Which of the Native American groups was made up of five nations?
Iroquois
He was believed by Muslims to have been given the word of God.
Muhammad
He ruled Mali at its height.
Mansa Musa
He was a Chinese explorer.
Zheng He
This is the science of locating and plotting the course of ships.
Navigation
Most of the trade linking Europe, Africa and ______ passed through the Arabian Peninsula.
Asia
This was the chief trading center on the east coast of Africa.
Kilwa
China developed movable type 400 years before it was developed in _________.
Europe
The silk road stretched from China to ________.
Persia
