History 10th grade semester exam 1
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- What do scientists use radiocarbon dating for?
- To determine how old objects are.
- How does radiocarbon dating work?
- From the wood or bone, scientist measure the radioactivity left in carbon 14. Depending on how much is left, provides the age.
- Why does radiocarbon dating work?
- Because all living things absorb carbon.
- Where did Iroquoian families live?
- In the northeast, where New York is today.
- Describe the Iroquoian houses?
- Large rectangular long houses and wigwams.
- Describe the Iroquoian family.
- Lived in large kinship groups headed by the elder women of each clan in the kinship. Women were responsible for planting and harvesting crops. Up to 10 families lived together.
- What were the empires of West Africa?
- Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
- What were the people of Ghana called?
- Soninke
- What were the trades of Ghana?
- Gold and Salt
- What were the muslim places of worhip?
- mosques
- Who was wealthy from the trade in Ghana?
- The ruler but not the people. The people were farmers and herders.
- What led to Ghana's collapse?
- War, exhausted land so no farming, and trade routes that bypassed Ghana.
- Who was the leader of Mali
- Mansa Musa
- Describe Mali's government
- Mali had local leaders collect taxes from the farmers.
- How did Mali enforce taxes?
- with a large army called the mansa.