The World Before the Opening of the Atlantic

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Bering Land Bridge.

Question 2

Who crossed the Bering Land Bridge to Alaska?

Answer 2

The Paleo-Indians

Question 3

A movement of people or animals from one region to another

Answer 3

Migration

Question 4

People who hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food

Answer 4

Hunter-Gatherers

Question 5

Climates and landscapes that surround living things

Answer 5

Environment

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Culture

Question 7

Aboveground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe

Answer 7

Pueblos

Question 8

Underground ceremonial chambers

Answer 8

Kivas

Question 9

Ancestor or animal spirits on tall, wooden posts

Answer 9

Totems

Question 10

Cone-shaped shelters

Answer 10

Teepees

Question 11

Ancestry traced through their mothers, not their fathers

Answer 11

Matrilineal

Question 12

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

First type of government and only native american alliance formed

Answer 12

Iroquois League

Question 13

A group of people from northern Africa

Answer 13

Berbers

Question 14

Pilgrimage to Mecca

Answer 14

Haji

Question 15

Buildings for Muslim prayer

Answer 15

Mosques

Question 16

Mali’s most famous ruler

Answer 16

Mansa Musa

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Askia the Great

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Socrates

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Plato

Question 20

Taught that people should live lives based on reason

Answer 20

Aristotle

Question 21

Clear and ordered thinking

Answer 21

Reason

Question 22

A form of government in which people rule themselves

Answer 22

Democracy

Question 23

Warriors who fought on horseback

Answer 23

Knights

Question 24

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

Answer 24

BlackDeath

Question 25

Two of the greatest Renaissance artists

Answer 25

Michelangelo and Leonardo Di Vinci

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Johannes Gutenberg

Question 27

Business in which a group of people invest together

Answer 27

Joint-stock companies

Question 28

What was the Ice Age?

Answer 28

A time when Earth's climate was intensely cold

Question 29

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

Answer 29

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

Question 30

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

Answer 30

The Olmec. It is located in Mesoamerica

Question 31

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

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Why did the Anasazi build kivas?

Answer 32

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

Question 33

What different types of housing were built by the Anasazi?

Answer 33

Pueblos, Cliff Dwellings, and Pit houses

Question 34

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

Answer 34

They worshipped nature in animals

Question 35

What are culture areas?

Answer 35

The geographic locations that influenced society

Question 36

What did the North and Northwest Native Americans eat?

Answer 36

Fish, and large mammals

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Maize, squash, and beans

Question 38

What were the most valuable trade items in West Africa?

Answer 38

Salt and Gold

Question 39

How did some people become slaves?

Answer 39

Being captured in battles or they were criminals

Question 40

When citizens elect representatives to make laws

Answer 40

Republic

Question 41

Name the feudalism pyramid from top to bottom.

Answer 41

``` Pope King Nobles Knights Peasants ```

Question 42

How were people unified in the Middle Ages?

Answer 42

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

Question 43

What are Crusades?

Answer 43

Holy wars created by European Christians against Muslim Turks

Question 44

What was the goal of the Crusades?

Answer 44

To recapture the Holy Land, the land where Jesus lived

Question 45

What were the Renaissance Men and Women?

Answer 45

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

Question 46

What was a key feature in the Renaissance?

Answer 46

Love of art and education