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| What invention created a communications revolution in Europe? |
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| transatlantic trade of crops, technology and culture between the Americas, Europe and Africa that began with Columbus's voyage to the Americas |
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| The Treaty of Tordesillas was meant to prevent territorial disputes between what two European countries? |
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| someone who rules over a kingdom |
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| How do we know how long ago the first people came to the Americas? |
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| How did the first Americans travel from Asia? |
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| They walked across the land bridge (Beringia) |
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| From where did the first Americans come? |
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| How do we know the first inhabitants of North America came from Asia? |
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| much of their DNA matches |
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| Why did the first Americans come to the Americas? |
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| They were hunting migrating big game animals. |
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| What event allowed for the growth of civilization in the Americas? |
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| What are the characteristics of civilizations? |
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| trade, government, the arts, science and written language |
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| Where was the first civilization in the Americas? |
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| What were the four civilizations that developed in Mesoamerica? |
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| Olmec, Maya, Toltec, Aztec |
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| To what regions did Mesoamerican farming technology spread? |
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| American Southwest and up the Mississippi River |
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| What building structure are the Anasazi most famous for? |
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| What two early North American cultures were famous for irrigation? |
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| What early North American cultures were famous for mound-building? |
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| Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian |
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| What city in Alabama was created by the Mississippian culture? |
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| Indians living in the Great Plains regions were known for hunting _____ and living in _______. |
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| What Northeastern Indian group was famous for their elaborate government system where women held political power, tribes joined together to keep peace and they wrote a constitution? |
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| Which cultural traits are influenced by geography? |
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| food, housing, clothing, tools, weapons |
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| Who was the chief of the Mohawk Indians? |
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| What is the desert region that stretches across North Africa called? |
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| What animal made trans-Saharan trade possible? |
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| What were the two most important trade items in West Africa? |
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| What was the economy of the kingdoms of West Africa's southern coast and Southern Africa based? |
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| How had African societies gained most of their slaves? |
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| They captured them in war |
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| Why did Europeans need African slaves? |
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| To work on plantations in the New World |
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| What caused a mini agricultural revolution in Europe around 1000 A.D.? |
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| invention of the horse collar |
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| How did the Crusades affect Europe? |
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| The Crusades introduced Europe to the goods in the Far East. |
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| Why did Europeans want to find a water route to the Far East? |
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| To find a cheaper and faster way to get the goods from the Far East |
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| What led to the growth of towns in Europe? |
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| a steady food supply and increased trade |
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| What new technology was developed by Europeans that helped them to explore the New World? |
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| What was the purpose of the Crusades? |
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| To free Christianity's holy places from the Muslims |
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| Who headed the extended families among the Iroquian people? |
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When Columbus landed in the Bahamas, what did he call the people living there?
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| Indians because he thought he was in the Indies of the coast of Asia |
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| Which statement issued by the Pope set up the line of demarcation which confirmed Spain's claim to the new lands of America? |
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| In the manorial system, peasants who were bound to the manor and could not leave without permission. |
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| What island did Christopher Columbus probably land on in 1492? |
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| Who became the first European to reach the Pacific coast of America in 1513? |
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| What European explorer was the first to sail around the tip of Africa to reach India? |
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| Ponce de Leon was the first European to see and name this "land of flowers " in North America |
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| European explorer whose expedition was first to circumnavigate the earth? |
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| the first capital of Spain's empire in America |
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| The line of demarcation divided the New World between what two European countries? |
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| first Europeans to reach the New World |
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| Who financed Columbus's first voyage to the Americas? |
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| For what reasons did Columbus and other Europeans explore? |
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Gold (wealth)
God (spread Christianity)
Glory (fame) |
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| Interaction of food, language, disease, culture, etc. between Europeans and Americans |
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