| A | B |
| democracy | a government in which people rule themselves. They vote to put people in office |
| culture | the common values and traditions of a society such as language, and family relationships. |
| migration | a movement of people or animals from one region to another |
| environment | climates and landscapes that surround living things |
| tepees | cone shaped shelters made of buffalo skins used by Native Americans |
| hunter-gathers | people who hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food. |
| totems | image of ancestor or animal faces on tall wooden poles. |
| Paleo-Indians | the first Americans who crossed from Asia into North America sometimes between 38,000 and 10,000 BC |
| Bering Land Bridge | a strip of land connecting Alaska with Russia that emerged from underwater around 38,000 bc. |
| pueblos | above ground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe that were built by Indians |
| kivas | underground religious ceremonial chambers at the center of Anasazi communities. |
| matrilineal | people trace their ancestry through their mothers not their fathers. |
| Iroquois Leaque | a political confederation of five northeastern Indians of Seneca,Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga that made decisions concerning war and peace |
| berber | a group of people from northern Africa |
| hajj | pilgrimage to Mecca |
| mosques | buildings for Muslim prayer |
| Mansa Musa | a famous Muslim king that helped Mali come into wealth, power and fame through trade. |
| Askia the Great | Sonhai geatest ruler who improve government and education. |
| reason | clear and ordered thinking |
| name 3 great Greek thinkers or pilosophers | Socrates, Plato and Aristotle |
| knight | warriors who fought on horseback |
| Socrates | a great teacher, wanted to make people think and question their own belief |
| Plato | Plato, a philosopher and a teacher, wrote The Republic.It describes an ideal society based on justice and fairness for everyone. |
| Aristotle | taught that people should live lives based on reason |
| Black Death | a disease spread across Europe killing 25 million people. |
| Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci | two of the most greatest Renaissane artist painting,sculpture, and architecture. |
| Johannes Gutenberg | developed a printing press that used movable type.a page could be printed at once. |
| joint-stock companies | a group of people invest together in business. |