Unit 1 Test - The First Americans (Native Americans, West Africans, & Europeans)

period in earth's history with low global temperatures and glaciers covering huge areas

• Migration
• Middle Ages
• Ice Age
• Renaissance

to move from one region or habitat to another

• Ice Age
• Adobe
• Migrate
• Columbian Exchange

American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century

• Aztec
• Maya
• Olmec
• Iroquois

sun-dried brick made from earth, water, and straw

• Reconquista
• Songhai
• Adobe
• Maya

American Indian people of the Yucatan area of Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize whose civilization reached its height from 300-900 C.E.

• Ghana
• Olmec
• Mali
• Maya

prominent kingdom in West Africa, known for wealth and trade in gold, lasting from A.D. 800 - A.D. 1200

• Mansa Musa
• Ghana
• Songhai
• Mali

Emperor of the West African empire of Mali from 1307 C.E. He set out for a historic pilgrammage to Mecca with a caravan of 60,000 men

• Hernan Cortes
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Mansa Musa
• Vasco de Gama

large West African empire lasting from 1460 to 1600 C.E.

• Songhai
• Ghana
• Aztec
• Mali

period in European history lasting from the 14th to the 16th century, which ushered in a more secular outlook and encouraged freedom of thought

• Renaissance
• Middle Ages
• Columbian Exchange
• Black Death

campaign, ending in 1492, that reestablished Spanish Christian rule on the Iberian Peninsula after 700 years of Muslim dominance

• Reconquista
• Adobe
• Conquistador
• Renaissance