CHAPTER 1 JEOPARDY

The World Before 1500

The World Before 1500The Americas Africa Europe

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Groups of people who settled in villages or towns but moved every few years in search of food.

semisedentary societies

Groups of people who settled in permanent villages or towns

sedentary societies

Groups of people who moved continually in search of food

nonsendentary people

These people created a major civilization with the main city being Tenochtitlan

Aztec people

This group of people lived in the Southwest

Pueblo people

The first great American Civilization

Mesoamerica

A large desert in Northern Africa

Sahara Desert

Someone who is captured and used for unpaid labor

Slave

A prosperous civilization between A.D. 700 and 1100

Ghana

West African kingdom that ruled from 1200 to 1400

Mali

Religion that teaches there is one God, named Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet

Islam

Reasons why African Kings went to war (three goals)

Bonus 200 pts

1. Gained strong young men to be put to work, 2. depleted rival militaries, 3. use slaves for trade of valuable goods and

resources

Movement that divided the church between Catholics and Protestants

Reformation

Widespread food shortage that killed thousands of Europeans

great famine

A word meaning “rebirth”

Renaissance

An invention by Johannes Gutenberg

The printing press

4 good that Europe traded with Asia

silk, porcelain, tea, rugs

A Hundred Years war that took thousands of lives was a conflict between which countries?

France and England

Bonus Question

Name the ruler of the Aztecs between 1502 and 1520

Montezuma

Bonus Question

A deadly disease that killed millions of

people

Black Death

Made by: Keri StruszSeptember 2011

Source for information: Dallek, R., Garcia, J., Ogle, D. M., Risinger C. F. (2008). American History: Beginnings Through Reconstruction.

Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell.