| A | B |
|---|
| Agricultural | shift from hunting and gathering to the domestication, or adapting and controlling of plants. |
| Paleo-Indians | The first Americans |
| Hunter-Gatherers | stalked whatever game their stone tipped weapon could kill. |
| Olmec | The first great Mesoamerican culture |
| Maya | Their civilization flourished for more than 500 years i |
| Toltec | This tribe built Tula, a great independent city |
| City-state | an independent city |
| Aztec | The conquerors of the Toltec |
| Inca | arming culture that developed on the Pacific costal plains, |
| Anasazi | One of several groups who settled the barren hills and deserts of the southwest |
| Muhammad | founded Islam |
| Qur'an | Muhammad's holy book |
| Swahili | the language spoken in east Africa |
| Best-known | leader Mansa Musa |
| Republic | In 509 B.C. the city of Rome established a |
| Nobles | Europeans rulers |
| Eriksson | eader established what is believed to be the first European settlement. |
| Bourgeoisie | middle class |
| Crusades | military and religious expeditions. |
| John | This king signed the Magna Carta in 1215 |
| Renaissance | rebirth |
| Gutenberg | invented a printing press that used movable type |
| Reconquista | ongoing battle to recapture Spanish Lands. ( |
| Monopolies | controlling all the trade |
| Scurvy | bowlegged |
| Portugal | Prince Henry |
| Alfonso | The King who in 1474 increased exploration by granting the monopoly of trading with Africa to his heir |
| Diaspora | the displacement of people from their native lands. |
| daGama | The sea captain who set out from Portugal and in 1498 rounded the Cape of Good Hope |
| Dias | ea Captain who rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 and established a route to the Indian Ocean |
