245 American History Ch 1

A business in which a group of people invest together

• merchantilism
• Joint-stock company
• Crusades

North American Native Americans were matrilineal, which means the inherited their last name from their

• Chief
• Father
• Mother

This group was the first know society in the New World

• Olmec
• Aztec
• Incas

How do scientists believe people first arrived in North America?

• in small boats
• on the Bering Strait bridge
• swimming the Bering Strait

This early American group began as small villages in Peru, South America.

• Olmec
• Aztec
• Incas

This early American group was feared because of its warriors and sacrificing prisoners of war by cutting their hearts out.

• Olmec
• Aztec
• Incas

During the Renaissance, or Rebirth, the new emphasis was a search for

• God
• Gold
• Knowledge

Pueblos were aboveground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe

• True
• False

A group's set of common values and traditions is know as

• environment
• culture
• religion

Mali's ______________ and Songhai's Askia the Great were both Muslims.

• Mansa Musa
• Tenochtitlan
• Berber