Honors World History

Drying of the soil

Desertification

Descendants of a common ancestor

Lineage

The region directly south of the Sahara

Sahel

A knotted rope used by the Inca to record historical events

Quipu

The people who migrated due to a need for more land for their growing population; there are 60million people who speak one of these languages which was spread throughout Africa by the migration INSTEAD of cultural diffusion.

Bantu

Much like the explorations of Spanish explorers, China was originally enriched by the trade and cultural diffusion as a result of this explorer's work; after his death though, the Chinese decided to focus their efforts on internal affairs.

Zheng He

Despite the stereotypes about this continent, there were many well-developed civilizations both north and south of this desert

Africa is the continent Sahara is the desert

Worship of this particular god was an important feature of both the Incas and the Aztecs societies

Sun god

The 2 primary European countries which conquered Latin American societies

Spain and portugal

The cause of the population decrease among indigenous people of the Americas upon European contact

Lack of immunity to European Issues

The monotheistic religion of the Kingdom of Mali

Islam

The city-state of Kilwa became an important trading center mainly because of its location and relation to these 2 bodies of water

Red sea and Indian Ocean

Members of a society trace their heritage through their mother & the continent where that was standard practice

Matrilineal in Africa

The Spanish system of land grants in colonies was known as this system

Encomienda

The "Renaissance-inspired" reason for European exploration in the 15th century

Curiosity of the new world

The 2 means by which Islam spread throughout Africa

War and trade

This Muslim traveler who wrote much of what we know about the Islamic world in his many books based on his travels

Ibn Battuta

The location of these were important for the Hanseatic League in Europe, just as they were for the cities of Ancient Ghana

Trade routes

The title of the person responsible for preserving African literature, as well as the means by which the literature was preserved

Griot, oral history

The patriarch of Mali; he helped the Mali empire grow powerful and wealthy by promoting agriculture and re-established the gold-salt trade

Sundiata

Lands that are controlled by another nation

colonies

Hieroglyphic symbols of the ancient Maya

glyphs

Bark-paper book used to record important historic events

codex

The most famous Maya book which tells the story of creation

Popul Vuh

The agreement which gave Spain control of the lands west of the line of demarcation and allowed Portugal to control the east

Treaty of Tordesillas

The Mediterranean empire and the South American empire which were known for their roads

Inca and Roman

The three indigenous American groups who rivaled contemporary civilizations in Europe, Africa and Asia

Maya, Aztec, Inca

This Mesoamerican empire were an extremely warlike people, intimidated neighboring peoples whom they conquered by using them for human sacrifice and believed they should settle where an eagle landed on the cactus

Aztec

The policy used by countries which results in a favorable balance of trade

Mercantilism

The three factors which allowed Spanish and Portuguese explorers to easily conquer Latin American

Gun, disease, horses

One of the reasons that the Aztecs were strongly disliked by the people who they had conquered were their sacrifices of prisoners of war to this goddess

Earth goddess

The emperor who completed a hajj to Mecca in the 1300s, accompanied by 60,000 of his subjects; he established diplomatic ties with other Muslim states

Mansa Musa

The religious reason, as well as the other 2 G's, that led Europeans on their long voyages of exploration

Gold, God, Glory

Led by St. Ignatius of Loyola, these members of the Society of Jesus spread out across the world to spread Catholicism leading to widespread conversion to Catholicism in the New World

Jesuits

The 2 religious reform movements in Unit 3; if it hadn't been for one the other may never have happened.

Catholic reformation and protestant reformation

The trading partnership which brought enslaved persons to the New World, took natural resources from the New World and enriched the joint stock companies of Europe

Trans-Atlantic slave trade

After the death of this explorer, the Chinese government decided to focus its efforts on internal affairs rather than to continue to increase their international presence

Zheng He

The similarity between the voyages authorized by Emperor Yongle and the ones funded by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella was that the voyages fostered trade and cultural diffusion for these 2 countries

China and Spain

The types of items Africans mainly provided in the trade between East Africa and Asia

Raw Materials and Natural Resources

In these societies people trace their ancestors through their mothers

Matrilineal

The society which invented both gunpowder and the compass; they were far more advanced than contemporary Europeans, who they viewed as barbarian

China

The mineral resources (2) that fueled competition between European countries for colonies in the Americas

Gold and Silver

The event that was the cause of the other 3:- Europeans brought food, animals, and ideas from one continent to another - Europeans brought food, animals, and ideas from one continent to another. - Warfare increased as European nations competed for land and power.- Europeans disease had an adverse effect on the native populations of new territories. - Advances in learning and technology made long ocean voyages possible.

Advances in learning and technology made long ocean voyages possible.

This early Mesoamerican civilization was known as a "mother culture" because they influenced subsequent people in the region

Bantu

The older Mesoamerican civilization with incredible stone monuments, not much is known about them as they did not have a written language

Olmec

The event several hundred years earlier which caused merchants to seek an all-water route to Asia to trade leading to the Age of Exploration; the end of regional isolation and the beginning of a period of global domination

Crusades

This American civilization rivaled the accomplishments of other early civilizations as they developed one of 5 original writing systems and based their calendar on careful observations of the planets, sun and moon

Maya

The animal used for transportation, agriculture and war that was brought by Europeans to the America

Horses

This spherical invention, credited to Muslims, improved navigation and exploration

Astrolabe