EXAMPLE: Early people of Nigeria, worked iron Unit 3 review guide ABOUT AFRICA—early states/empires. 1. a. What two, main trade goods were exchanged in trade between West African kingdoms and their partners crossing the Sahara? _____________ and ___________ b. How did West African rulers grow rich from this trade? c. What means of transporting goods—what animal—was used by traders crossing the Sahara? __________________________ d. How did the East African kingdoms move their trade goods—what was their means of transport? _________________________ e. What main trade goods did the East African kingdoms produce? ___________________________________________________ 2. What were the 3 main West African kingdoms in the medieval era, from earlier to later? 1 st : ______________ 2 nd : ______________ 3 rd : ________________ 3. Write a bullet point definition for each of the following a. Nok b. Aksum c. Djenné-Djeno d. Mansa Musa f. savanna e. animism 4 a. ____ Sahel a. Large desert in Africa b. ____ Maghreb b. Grassy plain c. ____ savanna c. Land at the southern edge of the Sahara d. ____ Sahara d. Part of North Africa that is today the Mediterranean coast of Morocco 5. Match the Medieval African state with its description a. Songhai _______ e. Ghana _______ b. Hausa _______ f. Mutapa _______ c. Yoruba _______ g. Great Zimbabwe _______ d. Mali _______ 1. Southeast African city; became an empire built on the gold trade 2. Southern African empire established by the leader Mutota 3. (earlier) West African empire that grew rich from trade 4. (later) West African empire that grew rich from trade 5. West African empire that conquered Mali 6, West African people who lived in several city-states of what is now northern Nigeria 7. West African people who formed several kingdoms in what is now Benin
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EXAMPLE: Early people of Nigeria, worked iron
Unit 3 review guide
ABOUT AFRICA—early states/empires.
1. a. What two, main trade goods were exchanged in trade between
West African kingdoms and their partners crossing the Sahara?
_____________ and ___________
b. How did West African rulers grow rich from this trade? c. What means of transporting goods—what animal—was used by traders crossing the Sahara? __________________________
d. How did the East African kingdoms move their trade goods—what was their means of transport? _________________________
e. What main trade goods did the East African kingdoms produce?
2. What were the 3 main West African kingdoms in the medieval era, from earlier to later? 1st: ______________ 2nd: ______________ 3rd: ________________
3. Write a bullet point definition for each of the following
a. Nok
b. Aksum c. Djenné-Djeno d. Mansa Musa f. savanna e. animism
4 a. ____ Sahel a. Large desert in Africa
b. ____ Maghreb b. Grassy plain
c. ____ savanna c. Land at the southern edge of the Sahara
d. ____ Sahara d. Part of North Africa that is today the Mediterranean coast of Morocco
5. Match the Medieval African state with its description
a. Songhai _______ e. Ghana _______
b. Hausa _______ f. Mutapa _______
c. Yoruba _______ g. Great Zimbabwe _______
d. Mali _______
1. Southeast African city; became an empire built on the gold trade
2. Southern African empire established by the leader Mutota
3. (earlier) West African empire that grew rich from trade
4. (later) West African empire that grew rich from trade
5. West African empire that conquered Mali
6, West African people who lived in several city-states of what is now northern Nigeria
7. West African people who formed several kingdoms in what is now Benin
ABOUT THE AMERICAS—early peoples of, and Maya, Aztec, Inca 6. What is now believed about the population of the Amazon Basin in the early era of N./S. American civilizations? 7. How and why did that population level change when Europeans arrived in the Americas? 8. What food crop was particularly important to people living in Central Mexico? _____________ What other crops did they grow?
9. Which society is from the Andes region (in South America), and which are from ‘Mesoamerica’ (Cent. Amer./Mexico)? REGIONS SOCIETIES
Mesoamerica Olmec (Mexico/Central America) Maya Inca Andes / South America Aztec
10. What do the Aztec and Maya have in common with the earlier Olmec? 12. How these two items are similar yet also different: codex & quipu. 13. Match the society with the description:
Mayan Centered in Valley of Mexico, in city of Tenochtitlán, believed human sacrifice was necessary to feed gods.
Aztec Required a labor payment (called mita), built roads, organized people into family/clan groups, ran planned economy Inca Many separate city-states that both traded with and fought each other, had a complex calendar and mathematics.
Draw lines to show which of the societies are from which of the 2 regions.
11. Which society did Montezuma II rule and what caused that society to fall while he was in charge?
had armies of janissaries
Akbar
Isma’il
Constantinople was captured by this empire Suleyman the Lawgiver
Taj Mahal
Aurangzeb
Shah Abbas
Esfahan
Osman
Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals 14. What religion was the dominant, main religion of these three empires? _____________________
15. Match the descriptions and vocab items with the empire: empires descriptions and vocabulary items 16. a. Which European country was the first to discover a sea route to China and India? ______________________. b. What continent did that route go around? _____________________________ c. What European country tried to go west, across the Atlantic, to get to China/India? _____________________.
17. a. What ‘weapons’ allowed Europeans to dominate the societies of the New World? _____________________ and ___________________
b. Why were Europeans diseases so deadly, in general, and why were they especially so for people in the New World? 18. How did the Chinese and Japanese treat Europeans? ___________________________________________. Why? _______________________ __________________________________________________ Who/what were the samurai?
Ottoman Safavid Mughal
Across 2. ___ blending happens from 4 reasons 4. civilization of Cent. Mexico, at Tenochtitlan 7. belief that spirits in natural world play role in daily life 12. 2nd of the 3 great trade empires of West Africa 15. 'ones with power', the word for rulers of Muslim states 16. ___ and spice = goods Europeans wanted from China/India 17. grassy plain 18. this increased in China, due to improved nutrition 20. reasons for cult. blending: ___, conquest, religion, migration 21. their migration influenced much of Sub-Saharan Africa 22. Part of N. Africa, the coast of Morocco 23. last of the 3 great trade empires of West Africa 25. ____-pull factors (reasons for migration) 29. West African state and source of bronze plaques 30. China and Japan both generally preferred this to contact with Europeans 32. ___ II led the Ottomans at the peak of their power 34. led Safavids in late 1500s at peak of their power (2 wrds/no space) 35. traded for gold in West Africa 36. Mughal ruler who was tolerant about religions 37. tame animals kept on farms Down 1. empire founded by Osman, the ghazi warrior 3. mountains where Inca civilization was located 5. first grown by the Olmec, it was a staple crop in Americas 6. city conquered by Mehmed II 8. empire of India with ties back to Mongols 9. Land at the southern edge of the Sahara 10. civilization of S. Mexico/Guatemala, etc, w/ many cities 11. those who travel to new lands to spread a religion 12. 'middle' America, where Maya & Aztec were 13. version of Islam that has been in conflict with Shi'a 14. Chinese admiral, led expedition to India, Africa (2 wrds/no space)
17. word for 'king' in Persian empire(s) 19. knotted strings used by Inca for record -keeping 24. basis for Europeans' (more) powerful weapons 26. bark-paper book of Ancient Maya 27. permanent movement of people to a new area 28. sailing out of sight of land (2 wrds/no space) 31. first of the 3 great trade empires of West Africa 33. rhymes w/ Rita, Incan 'tax' in the form of work 35. trained soldiers who protected Japanese lords 38. the religion of the Safavid empire in Persia 39. civilization of western S. America 40. oldest known city s. of Sahara (2 wrds/no space)
