WorksheetsCh. 1 Earliest Americans Test
Total questions: 53
Worksheet time: 30mins
What do you call the natives that traveled around from place to place, with no permanent home, searching for food and water?
Wampum
Nomads
Hunter-gathers
Paleo
These people inhabited the Pacific coastland and islands of southern Alaska and British Colombia
Navajo
Mali
Tlingit
civilizations
What is ADOBE?
a juicy fruit.
a wild animal hunted by Native people
kind of clay used to build. Ex. sun-dried bricks
a traditional southwestern dish
The Native Americans of the SOUTHWEST built their settlement of multi-storied adobe homes. What were their homes called?
We consider the time of the early Paleo-Indians to be ancient history because Paleo means ...
ancestor
past
The movement of people or animals from one region to another is called __________________.
civilization
The use of soil for planting, growing, and harvesting food along with raising livestock (animals) is called ____________________.
Cliffs
Kivas
Mosques
Longhouse
What does the word "Renaissance" mean?
A group of close Knit interrlated families is called
Kivas
Clan
Aztec
Sahara
The stage of human development and organization that is advanced is called.
Assimilation
Civilization
Confederation
Migration
Africa is a ...
Nation
Continent
Third-world Country
Country
Native Americans who ruled Mexico before the Spanish conquered it. They built an empire around Tenochtitlan.
True or false-The Aztecs grew their crops on floating gardens in a lake.
True
False
Totem Poles were often in the front of their homes to tell their peoples history and they traded salmon and sea creatures. Who were they?
Natchez
Tlingit
Iroquois
Aztec
This group called themselves "Haundenosaunee"
Iroquois
Mound Builders
Tlingit
Hopi
Which Ancient American group is known for "dry farming" which involved knowing where to look for moisture in the ground?
Tlingit
Hopi
Mound Builders
Natchez
They created large complex villages by building hills out of the earth in different shapes (such as animals, symbols, flat topped pyramids, and rounded domes.
Aztec
Iroquois
Natchez
Mound Builders
What two key products did the kings of Ghana build their power on?
Salt and Gold
Iron and Salt
Gold and Ivory
Gold and Silver
What new religion did the traders bring into the Kingdom of Ghana?
Islam
Buddhism
Hinduism
Christianity
What was Mansa Musa known for?
His powerful friends and large army
Selling people into slavery
Going on an epic hajj and giving away gold
Storytelling
Ghana was attacked by which group in order to convert them to Islam?
Almoravids
Muslims
Europeans
Songhai
What is the name of the king who won back Mali's independence?
Mansa Musa
Sundiata
Muhammad
Johannes Gutenberg
The West African kingdom became wealthy and powerful because of the salt, gold, and control of trade routes. They also were known for taxing passersby for their goods. This kingdom was ____________.
Which is the correct order that the West African kingdom developed?
Trade routes to Asia, Mansa Musa's pilgrimage, and architectures building mosques are reasons for the growth of what religion in West Africa.
The Sahara Desert was a source of ____________, which Ghana's leaders used for trading.
gold
water
salt
money
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai gained wealth through ____________.
trade
religion
gold
education
Mansa Musa was known as the most successful ruler of which African Empire?
Ghana
Morocco
Mali
Songhai
Under the leadership of Mansa Musa the empire_________________.
collapsed.
moved to the Middle East.
reached the height of wealth, power, and fame.
was taken over by another powerful leader
Songhai's greatest ruler was ...
Mansa Musa
The King of Songhai
Askia the Great
People in West Africa who were sold as slaves were captured in war, sold to pay debts, or ____________
Enemies of the Kings
Traders from Asia
against Islam
Criminals
What is humanism?
An idea that there should be an upper class that controls most of the wealth.
A way of setting up a society based on oaths and land.
The belief that one religion should be practiced by all people.
A belief that focuses on the importance of people and human value
Lords granted land to knights and Knights allowed Peasants to work their land under the system called ______________.
Republic
Christianity
Democracy
Feudalism
The ________ were a series of wars to take between the European Christians and the Muslims of Asia.
Vassals
Crusades
Lords
Renaissance
Who was at the bottom of the social hierarchy in feudalism in Europe?
During the Renaissance, growth of knowledge and learning happened in 4 areas EXCEPT which area?
Humanism
Art and Literature
Ancient Texts
Exploration
a system of agreements and loyalties between lords, knights, and peasants.
a system of fighting wars between Knights and peasants
an economic system of money paid to peasants for their work
This pandemic spread throughout Europe when trade links opened with Asia. Approximately 25 million people died from this disease.
Swine Flu
COVID-19
The Bubonic Plague
Black Death
In a Roman Republic ____________________ and ________________________.
(Choose the two answers that correctly describe a republic)
