History 1301 chapter 1

the first people to settle North America, roughly around 10,000-15,000 years ago

• Pueblo people

• Paleo Indians

• Iroquois Confederacy

• Islam

group of Northern tribes that joined to form a political and trading entity and later created an elaborate political system, also known as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy

• Pueblo people

• Paleo-Indians

• Iroquois Confederacy

• Roanoke

flourishing Islamic kingdom, it enveloped the kingdom of Ghana by the thirteenth century

• Timbuktu

• Mali

• Islam

• Benin

Southernmost part of Mali home to the majority of the Africans who came to America

• Songhay Empire

• Timbuktu

• Mali

• Lower Guinea

belief in the importance of the singular individual as opposed to the institution of the church, characterized by optimism, curiosity, and emphasis on naturalism

• Christian humanism

• Renaissance

• selling of indulgences

• feudalism

theory that a nation of state's prosperity was determined by the total volume of its trade

• feudalism

• catholicism

• sedentary existence

• mercantilism

principal city of the kingdom of Mali, cultural capital of Africa in the thirteenth century

• Kongo

• Ghana

• Timbuktu

• Benin

beads made of polished shell, used as currency in trading for goods

• roanoke

• wampum

• serf

• kongo

West African kingdom that prospered from the eighth to the thirteenth centuries, famous for its gold deposits

• Timbuktu

• Songhay Empire

• Ghana

• Lower Guinea

practice of popes using their authority to limit the time person's soul spent in purgatory, in exchange for cash

• Protestant Reformation

• Renaissance

• Christian humanism

• selling of indulgences