| A | B |
|---|
| Chaco Canyon | the Anasazi lived here |
| maize | most important crop grown by Native Americans |
| Cahokia | large Mississippi city |
| radiocarbon dating | method used to determine the age of objects |
| Hiawatha | a chief of the Mohawk |
| kinship groups | extended families |
| longhouse | rectangular house with a barrel-shaped roof covered in bark |
| kachina | a good spirit |
| Inuit | the most northern native American group |
| Hohokam | built elaborate system of irrigation canals |
| oba | ruler of Benin |
| Malinke | people of Mali |
| matrilineal | lineage, traced through mothers rather than fathers |
| Ghana | earliest empire to emerge in West Africa |
| Sorko | people who built the Songhai empire |
| Henry the Navigator | Portuguese prince who set up an astonomical and geogr. study center |
| Crusades | armed struggle to regain the Holy Land launched by Pope Urban II |
| astrolabe | a device that uses the sun to determine direction, latitude, and local time |
| feudalism | a system in which a king gives estates to nobles in exchange for loyalty |
| Renaissance | the rebirth of interest in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome |
| Florida | "land of flowers" |
| Santo Domingo | the first capital of Spain's empire in America |
| Vikings | people who came from Scandinavia |
| line of demarcation | imaginary north-to-south line running down Atlantic Ocean |
| Columbian Exchange | complex interactions between peoples and environments |
