LEAP 5th Grade Social Studies-6

Mali's greatest king, who converted to Islam and made Timbuktu a center of Muslim learning

The monotheistic faith founded by Muhammad in the seventh century in the Arabian Peninsula

The narrow waterway between Britain and France

The plague that divested Europe and Asia; its worst outbreak killed 1/4 of the world’s population from 1347 to 1350

A Northeast Native American nation

Leader of the Protestant Reformation and founder of the Lutheran Church

Large landmass that is the southern border of Southwest Asia

The mountain range from southern Italy and France to Germany and Switzerland.

Where a single person or company has control of a product or service

The eastern border of Southwest Asia

The type of government where all people are governed by the same set of laws; the first step was the Magna Carta

An Islamic place of worship

The island colony founded by Christopher Columbus that is today the Dominican Republic and Haiti

Round boats of buffalo skin stretched over a wood frame that were used by the Mandan Native American nation

Storage facilities for grains or animal feed

The empire established by Charlemagne in 800; included what would become Germany and lasted until 1806

The race by Europeans to discover new trade routes and lands in the West

Land on the Mediterranean Sea where Rome developed into the Roman Empire and then into Italian city-states

The largest ocean in the world, the eastern border of East Asia and the western border of the United States.

The central grasslands in what is now the United States

Spanish land grants that included a right to the forced labor of the indigenous people

A messenger of the Incan Empire who would pass messages, quipus, and small items throughout the empire

One of the largest Native American nations in the Southeast, called one of the Five Civilized Tribes

Located in Africa, the third largest desert, and the largest hot desert, in the world

The stories and storytelling methods that keep a culture and its history alive.