The World before the Opening of the Atlantic

1. a disease that spread across Europe, killing 25 million people
4. ancestor or animal spirits of the Native Americans of Pacific Northwest
6. people believed to have crossed the Bering Land Bridge
9. the Muslim ruler who led Songhai to the height of its power
14. German inventor of the moveable type printing press
18. Greek philosopher who thought people should live based on reason
19. clear or ordered thinking
21. a muslim king who ruled the Mali Empire at the height of its power and who spread Islamic influence through a large part of West Africa
22. Italian artist, inventor, engineer, and mapmaker of the Renaissance
25. Italian Renaissance artist known for paintings and sculpture
27. North African people who established trade routes through West Africa
28. underground ceremonial chambers at the center of each Anasazi community

2. a group's set of common values and traditions
3. people who obtain food by hunting animals and gathering plants
5. Greek philosopher who wrote Republic, about an ideal society
7. feudal warriors who fought on horseback
8. cone-shaped shelters made of animal hides by the nomadic plains people
10. a society that traces ancestry through mothers
11. climates and landscapes that surround living things
12. aboveground houses made of a heavy clay called adobe
13. an alliance of Native Americans in northeastern North America
14. businesses in which a group of people invest together
15. in Islam, a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca
16. Greek teacher who wanted people to question their own beliefs
17. a strip of land between Asia and present day Alaska that was exposed by the lower sea levels of the Ice Age
20. movment of people or animals from one region to another
23. Islamic places of worship
24. a form of government in which people rule themselves
26. referring to the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome