U.S. History - Chapter 1 TEST Worksheet

A period that started 100,000 years ago when the Earth began to cool
Huge frozen sheets of ice
People who continuously moved place to place
Highly organized society marked by advanced knowledge of trade, government, the arts, science, and, often, written language
Large rectangular houses where up to 10 families lived
"Good Spirits"
THe process of cutting down to clear land and then burning them in order to add Nitrogen to the soil
A system in which a king would give estates to nobles in exchange for their military support
In return for protection, peasants farmed the lord's land and made payments of various goods
People who were bound to the manor and the lord's will
An artistic flowering and a rebirth of interest in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome
A navigational instrument
Ships
Grasslands
A period from about 500-1400 A.D.
Head of the Roman Catholic Church during this time
A vast desert in Africa
Expeditions in which Christians were urged to take up arms in order to regain control of their holy sites
An imaginary north-to-south line running down the middle of the Atlantic
To sail completely around the globe
The was created in response to the arrival of European colonists in the Americas that set in motion a series of complex interctions between peoples and ecologies
Spanish for "conquerors"
Forts built by the Spanish
Large, Spanish cattle ranches
Spanish workers on the haciendas
A system that granted control of Native American towns to Spanish encomenderos