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belief in 1 god
monotheism
polytheism
agnostic
non theistic
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settled, non-migratory
Autonomy
Pastoral Nomad
Sedentary
Hierearchy
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devastation of American Indian populations by diseases brought from Europe
Great Dying
Westernization
inflation
Counter-Reformation
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the spread of ideas & values originating in Europe & the Western world
Absolutism
Scientific Revolution
Bureaucracy
Westernization
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Mosques are central to which religion?
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Muslim
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What was the Middle Passage?
the trail from the Mississippi to the W. Coast
the largest slave ship ever built
a route across the Sahara
the journey from Africa to the Americas
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What is silent barter?
A way to trade without talking/seeing who you'r trading with
A way to sneakily not do your work in class
trading using American Sign Language
regular trade but regulated by Ghana
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What are chinampas? (built by the Aztecs as an adaptation)
Floating gardens
part of the jungle
none of the above
flattened area of mountains
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Christian campaigns to retake the Holy Lands from Muslims
Dar al-Islam
Crusades
Inquisition
Enlightenment
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Its holy book is the Torah
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
Buddhism
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obsidian
no longer exists
volcanic glass-used to make tools
the type of homes natives lived in
imaginary stories
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What was mercantilism?
A belief in the magical powers of Merlin
A system of segregation
The belief that a nation's power is related to its wealth
An irrigation system used by natives
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A synogogue is a
A day of the week
A country
Jewish house of worship
A school
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Chronology
events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole
indefinite continued progress of existence
history
arrangement of events/dates in the order of their occurence
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A quipu is a
An apron worn as part of a traditional outift
Knotted rope used for record keeping
Made of rope and used to shade Inca babies from the sun
An Inca necklace.
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Spanish conquerors of the Americas
Conquistadors
Caliph
Mestizos
Pastoral Nomads
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Aztec roads that went into the water
aqua duct
quipu
causeway
chinampas
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Atlantic Slave Trade
The buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas.
The buying and selling of Aztecs for work in the Americas.
The buying and selling of Africans Americans for work in the Americas.
The buying and selling of indigenous people for work in the Americas.
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The Koran
Mayan book
Muslim book
Jewish book
Indian book
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What was Beringia?
vast grassland of central North America that is treeless
land bridge that connected Russia and Nova Scotia
a conspiracy theory
land bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska
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A sextant, pictured here, was a breakthrough in:
Agriculture
Shipbuilding
Architectural plans
Navigation
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member of a group who relied on a group of animals, periodically moving to find new grazing land
hunter- gatherer
pastoral nomad
caliph
Shi'a
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the military advances that resulted from the development of gunpowder weaponry
Boom Boom Revolution
Gunpowder Empire
Firearm Instigation
Commercial Revolution
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A secondary source is...
websites, textbooks, films, writing, documentaries and books
accounts about the past created after the time being studied
accounts like bank accounts, phone accounts and debts.
the second source when you have more than one object.
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The capital city of the Aztec Empire:
Tenochtitlan
Moctezuma
Montezuma
Texcoco
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The first permanent English settlement in N. America
Jamestown
Plymouth
Montreal
St. Augustine
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Quechua is the official language of the Inca.
False
True
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minority branch of Islam that maintains loyalty to Caliph Ali & his decendants
Sunni
Sufi
Shi'a
Khan
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the state of peace that existed under Mongol rule
Pax Romana
Pax Kahn
Pax Mongolica
Pax Magnolia
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belief in many gods
polytheism
holytheism
non theistic
montheism
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A caravel is a ...
a fast ship with triangle sails
a group of camels
small ship
a large ship for travelling on rivers
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What is a Mestizo?
person of mixed Spanish and native American descent
A person who is from America and From Mexico
Mexican Cowboy
The special at the diner
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a religion that is practiced in various parts of the world, beyond its land of origin
Columbian Exchange
Secular
World Religion
Hierarchy
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Timbuktu was a center of:
learning
art
trade
religion
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a large political unit in which a number of lands are ruled by a single ruler
empire
crusades
caliph
dynasty
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Section of the Bible that contains the Gospels
Koran
Old Testament
New Testament
Vedas
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What is a 'primary source'?
An artifact made after the period studied.
An artifact the comes from the period that is investigated.
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What is Reincarnation?
a room in the palace.
Rebirth of a soul in another body
Rebuilding a pyramid
Egyptian food
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Define aquaduct
used to separate dirty and clean water
used to run water to homes
channel dirty water out of the city
channel used to move water
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a leader whose power is unlimited
absolute ruler
president
Conley
Kantola
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Jesus is the Messiah
Judaism
Islam
Christianity
Hinduism
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deadly bacteria spread during the 1300s; responsible for the Black Death
Great Dying
Dar al-Islam
Bubonic Plague
PFA's
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its founder was Prince Siddhartha
Buddhism
Islam
Judaism
Hinduism
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What is Nirvana?
Rock band
A Buddhist state of enlightenment
Kindness
God
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the "taming"of wild plants & animals as a result of human intervention
farming
civilization
domesticiation
mestizos
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a period of 1000 years
decade
epoch
centennial
millenium
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majority branch of Islam that accepted the rule of the Umayyad & Abbasid caliphates
Mestizos
Shi'a
Sunni
Orthodox
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Matrilineal means
Ancestral descent through the male line
Lines running in the same direction
Ancestral descent through female line
A way of organizing a government
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joint-stock company
a restaurant in the New England colonies
tobacco manufacturing company
a company in which investors buy stock in return for profits
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Africa, Europe, Asia
Afro-Eurasia
located in the Western Hemisphere
City-State
Russia spreads across all of these
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Triangle trade refers to:
3 way trading between Africa, America, and Euope
Passage of Indentured Servants from the NW to the OW
Passage of slaves between the New World and the Old World
3 way trading between Europe and North America
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Mongol tribal leader
czar
khan
conquistador
poobah
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Dutch East India Company
Joint stock company-controlled the spice trade in the Indian Ocean
economic system used in China
legislative assembly of Britain
group of pirates that attacked ships in the Atlantic Ocean
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a human who subsists by hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants
wanderer
caliph
hunter-gatherer
khan
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Buboes refers to....
The dark swellings on people during the plague.
the herbs that people smelled during the plague.
The ships that carried the rats during the plague.
The coffins that people built during the plague.
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The only polytheistic world religion
Buddhism
Islam
Judaism
Hinduism
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region of pre-Columbian culture stretching from Mexico though northern Central America
Meso-America
Cuba
Shangra-La
Mexico-America
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the transfer of plants, animals, people, ideas and diseases between the eastern and western hemispheres
Da Gama Gammet
Pizzarro's Peace
Columbian Exchange
Humanism
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The Treaty of Tordasillas
Allowed Portugal to take most of North and South America
Was really about the food of Mexico at the time
Allowed Spain to take most of North and South America
Was no more than a fictional story made up by pirates.
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Its followers are called Muslims
Judaism
Hinduism
Buddhism
Islam
