| A | B |
|---|
| cultural diffusion | exchange of goods and ideas from one culture to another |
| Industrial Revolution | fundamental change in the production of goods, human-made to machine |
| chinampas | floating gardens |
| saaks | letters of credit to be exchanged at banks |
| phonetic | one sign for one sound |
| Minoans | powerful seafaring culture that calls Crete home |
| Phoenicians | 1st Mediterranean culture to sail past the Strait of Gibraltar |
| Han Dynasty | created economic stability and opened doors to outside trade |
| Ming Dynasty | practiced isolationism and closed off China to trade |
| Olmec | mother culture of Mesoamerica |
| mother culture | acts as an example for other cultures to follow |
| Necessity | mother of invention |
