Three Worlds Meet - Chapter 1

Question 1

Early trade across the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 1

Columbian Exchange

Question 2

Split in the Christian Church that led to Protestantism

Answer 2

Reformation

Question 3

People who built an empire along the west coast of South America, beginning in the 1400s

Answer 3

Inca

Question 4

Descent from a common ancestor

Answer 4

Lineage

Question 5

Portuguese prince who started a school for sailors and sponsored early voyages of exploration

Answer 5

Prince Henry

Question 6

People who built an empire in Mexico, beginning in the 1200s

Answer 6

Aztec

Question 7

The ties between members of a family

Answer 7

Kinship

Question 8

Italian explorer who sailed to North America for Spain

Answer 8

Christopher Columbus

Question 9

A dry grassland with trees and bushes

Answer 9

Savanna

Question 10

Moving one’s home

Answer 10

Nomadic

Question 11

Period when Europeans began investigating all aspects of the physical world

Answer 11

Renaissance

Question 12

People who created a civilization along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, beginning around 1200 B.C.

Answer 12

Olmec

Question 13

The establishment of outlying settlements that are controlled by a parent country

Answer 13

Colonization

Question 14

A huge farm on which slaves or other workers grow a single crop

Answer 14

Plantation

Question 15

Native American group that lived on the Northwest coast

Answer 15

Kwakiutl

Question 16

Agreement between Spain and Portugal to explore different lands

Answer 16

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 17

Native American group in Eastern North America

Answer 17

Iroquois

Question 18

Household made up of a mother and father and their children

Answer 18

Nuclear Family

Question 19

Series of wars started by Europeans to win back the Holy Land from the Muslims

Answer 19

Crusades

Question 20

African kingdom around the Niger River known for metalworking

Answer 20

Benin

Question 21

Large African kingdom known for trading

Answer 21

Songhai

Question 22

Native Americans who lived where Columbus first landed

Answer 22

Taino

Question 23

The assignment of different jobs to different individuals

Answer 23

Division of labor

Question 24

Native American group in the Southwest

Answer 24

Pueblo

Question 25

Native American group that lived in what is now California

Answer 25

Kashaya Pomo

Question 26

Social ordering by rank or class

Answer 26

Hierarchy

Question 27

Religion founded by the prophet Muhammad in the 600s

Answer 27

Islam

Question 28

Native Americans who lived in the Southwest in the canyon bottoms of the Four Corner region from about A.D. 300 to 1300

Answer 28

Anasazi

Question 29

Mound-building people who lived in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys

Answer 29

Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian

Question 30

People who created a civilization in Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula, about A.D. 250 to 900

Answer 30

Maya

Question 31

Small kingdoms on the lower Congo River united under one ruler

Answer 31

Kongo

Question 32

Native Americans who lived in the Southwest and settled in the river valleys in Central Arizona from about 300 B.C. to A.D. 1300

Answer 32

Hohokam