Early Africa and America

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Early Africa and America

• Review

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• This meso-american tribe sacrificed humans to
  appease their sun god.
• aztecs
• King Ezanas conversion to this religion brought
  it to Asksum and the upper Nile region
• Christianity
• This was the great Shona gold trading empire in
  south eastern Africa
• Zimbabwe
• This is a deep, black wood
• Ebony
• The type of falls that prevents travel by boat up
  the Nile River
• Cataracts

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• These were the Eastern woodlands mound builders
• Hopewell
• Primary grain of the southwest Amerindians
• Corn
• Another name for corn
• Maize
• This is the African language group of south
  central Africa
• Bantu
• City of Ghana, center of commercial and learning
• Timbuktu
• This is the root of the dreaded African sleeping
  disease
• Tse tse flies
• Kush center of Iron production
• Meroe
• These were the spiritual tellers of history for
  the great Amerindians of the US northwest
• Totem poles

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• This is the culture of the east African city
  states
• Swahili
• This is the dominate religion of East Africa
• ISlams
• This was the famous Malian king who went on a
  Hajj to Mecca
• Mansa Musa
• These were the South American natives of the
  Andes great engineers
• Inca
• This is the term for the great African grasslands
• Savannahs
• This was the primary west African trade item it
  was exchanged for gold
• Salt

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• This is primary type of dwelling of the great
  plains amerindians
• Teepees
• These are the oral historians of west Africa
• Griots
• This meso-America tribe of the Yucatan peninsula
  were great astronomers
• Maya
• This is the term for the land bridge that allowed
  the migration of humans from Asia to the Americas
• Beringia
• This is the dry, arid region just below the
  Sahara desert. It allows just subsistence living
• Sahal
• This is the primary building block of the
  Southwest US Amerindians
• Adobe

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• This is the term for hereditary passed through
  women
• Matrilineal
• These were the great festivals of the Northwest
  US Amerindians better to give than receive
• Potlatches
• This was the great staple or beef of the great
  plains Amerindians
• Buffalo
• This was the great block of travel up the
  Zambezi
• Victoria Falls
• Site of platonic action where early hominids have
  been found
• Great rift valley
• What geographic term describes Africa as an
  elevated highland
• Plateau