AP World History Modern Chapter 6 Strayer

Second-wave era kingdom of East Africa, in present-day Eritrea and northern Ethiopia; flourished from 100 to 600 C.E.

• Axum

• Chavin

• Cahokia

• Yap

• Moche

Gradual migration of Bantu-speaking peoples from their homeland in what is now southern Nigeria and the Camaroons into most of eastern and southern Africa, a process that began around 3000 BCE and continued for several millennia. The agricultural techniques and iron working technology of these farmers gave an advantage over the gathering and hunting people they encountered.

• Bantu expansion

• Bantu Chavin

• Bantu Tonga

• Chaco Phenomenon

• Cahokia expansion

The dominant center of an important Mississippi valley mound-building culture, located near present-day St. Louis, Missouri; flourished from about 900 to 1250 CE.

• Cahokia

• Teotihuacan

• Moche

• Meroe

• Yap

name given to a major process of settlement and societal organization that occurred in the period 860-1130 CE in what is now northwestern New Mexico; the society formed is notable for its settlement in large pueblos and for the building of hundreds of miles of roads (the purpose of which is not known).

• Chaco Phenomenon

• Chavin expansion

• Mana and Tapu expansion

• Meroe Phenomenon

• Mound Builders Phenomenon

Andean town that was the center of a large Peruvian religous movement from around 900 to 200 BCE.

• Chavin

• Tonga

• Pohnpei

• Bantu expansion

• Moche

A major civilization of Mesoamerica; flourished from 250 to 900 CE

• Maya civilization

• Cahokia civilization

• Azum civilization

• Piye civilization

• Wari and Tiwanaku civilizations

City in southern Nubia that was the center of Nubian civilization between 300 BCE and 100 CE.

• Meroe

• Piye

• Pohnpei

• Yap

• Chavin

An important regional civilization of Peru that was governed by warrior-priests; flourished from around 100 to 800 CE.

• Moche

• Pohnpei

• Tonga

• Yap

• Axum

Members of any of a number of cultures that developed east of the Mississippi River in what is now the United States and that are distinguished by their large earthen structures, which were built during the period 2000 BCE to 1250 CE.

• Mound Builders

• Wari Builders

• Bantu expansion

• Mana and Tapu Builders

• Niger Valley builders

Distinctive city-based civilization that flourished from about 300 BCE to 900 CE in the floodplain of a river and that included major cities like Jenne-jeno; this civilization is particularly noteworthy for its apparent lack of centralized structures, having been organized instead in clusters of economically specialized settlements.

• Niger Valley civilization

• Maya civilization

• Cahokia civilization

• Moche civilization

• Wari and Tiwanaku civilization