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