Early Civilizations of Africa and the Americas

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Across
  1. 1. replaced Kush, great trading kingdom (pg. 501)
  2. 4. homes built from blocks of ice and snow, used in cold climates by American Indians
  3. 6. African storyteller and historian
  4. 8. strong military, largest African empire, invaded by Morocco
  5. 11. a group of people traveling together
  6. 13. volcanic glass
  7. 14. wise saying with the purpose of teaching a lesson
  8. 15. the process of cutting trees down and burning them to create fertile land for farming
  9. 21. MesoAmerican culture that prized poetry, supported human sacrifice, and developed in the highlands of central Mexico
  10. 23. great stone pillars, common in Axum
  11. 24. these American Indians used teepees, portable cone shaped houses
  12. 26. Created slash and burn agriculture to farm in the rainforest
  13. 27. OLD civilization that developed along the Nile, traded with Egypt (
Down
  1. 2. Mansa Musa was from this culture, & they got rich off gold trade
  2. 3. "Middle America"
  3. 5. knotted strings used to keep track of high numbers
  4. 7. when storytelling is used to pass history from generation to generation
  5. 9. a system in which people or things are ranked by level of importance or value
  6. 10. mountain range along the western edge of South America
  7. 12. ancient MesoAmerican civilization that supported human sacrifice, made advances in math (zero), astronomy, and architecture, and theylived in what is today Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Yucatan Peninsula
  8. 16. rectangular house built from trees, used by Northeastern American Indians
  9. 17. flat grassland with scattered trees
  10. 18. also grew rich from gold trade and taxes, made advances with iron (pg 496)
  11. 19. successful civilization with fierce warriors that developed in the Andes
  12. 20. farming technique that uses step-like ridges in cut into the sides of mountains
  13. 22. homes made of young trees bent and tied together
  14. 25. like a mountain with the top cut off, elevated land that is flat at the top