Mid-Term History Exam

Front 1

What is a sedentary society?

Back 1

People who settled in permanent villages or towns

p.4

Front 2

semi-sedentary societies

Back 2

People who settled in villages or towns but moved every few years in search of food.
p.4

Front 3

non-sedentary societies

Back 3

People who move continually in search of food

p.4

Front 4

Maya

Back 4

ancient Native American civiliation of Mesoamerica (region between modern-day Mexico and Nicaragua)

p.4

Front 5

Inca

Back 5

Native American civilization that developed in what is now Peru
p.4

Front 6

Aztec

Back 6

Native American civilization that spread through what is now Mexico
p.4

Front 7

Pueblo

Back 7

Native Americans who built great mud-brick cities

p.4

Front 8

migrate

Back 8

to move from one region to another

p.4

Front 9

society

Back 9

group of people with common interests, customes and way of life
p.4

Front 10

civilization

Back 10

complex society in which people share key characteristics such as language and religion
p.4

Front 11

slash-and-burn

Back 11

process of clearing land by cutting down and burning trees
p.4

Front 12

savanna

Back 12

flat grassland with abundant wildlife, thorny bushes and scattered trees
p.10

Front 13

slave

Back 13

someone who is captured for use in forced, unpaid labor
p.10

Front 14

great famine

Back 14

a wide spread food shortage that killed thousands of Europeans
p.16

Front 15

Black Death

Back 15

deadly disease that spread through Europe in the 14th century
p.16

Front 16

Renaissance

Back 16

a time of increased interest in art and learning in Europe
p.16

Front 17

Reformation

Back 17

movement that divided the church between Catholics and Protestants
p.16

Front 18

Catholics

Back 18

Christian followers of the Roman Catholic Church

p.16

Front 19

Protestants

Back 19

Christian group that broke away from the Catholic Church
p.16

Front 20

printing press

Back 20

device that mechanically printed pages by pressing inked forms onto paper, invented in about 1455
p.16

Front 21

Sahara Desert

Back 21

a large desert in Northern Africa

Front 22

Islam

Back 22

religion that teaches there is on God, named Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet
p.10

Front 23

Muslim

Back 23

follower of the religion of Islam

p.10

Front 24

Ghana

Back 24

West African kingdom that prosperred between A.D. 700 and 1000
p.10

Front 25

Mali

Back 25

West African kingdom that ruled from about 1200-1400

p.10