Short Answer


Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.
1 The __________ Desert runs across northern Africa and separates the Mediterranean coastal societies from those of southern Africa.
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2 __________ is the practice in pastoral societies of moving from one region to another according to the seasons.
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3 The __________ fly carries sleeping sickness that limits pastoralism in wet lowlands of western and central Africa.
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4 The __________ people originated in eastern Nigeria but migrated into central and southern Africa.
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5 One of the few pure hunting societies left in central Africa after the Bantu migration were the __________.
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6 The kingdom of __________ succeeded Meroe as the most important state in Ethiopia.
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7 The first great state of sub-Saharan Africa was the empire of __________.
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8 The __________, Islamic peoples from the Mediterranean and the Sahara, conquered Ghana in 1076.
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9 The peoples who inhabited much of western Europe eventually conquered by the Romans, the __________, were the dominant population of Britain and Ireland.
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10 The __________ inhabited the lands north of the Roman borders and entered the Roman empire in the 4th and 5th centuries C.E.
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11 An Indo-European group, the __________ ultimately dominated much of eastern Europe from the Balkans northward.
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12 The largest and most heavily populated of the Japanese islands was __________.
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13 The early Asiatic migrants to Japan established the __________ culture in the 3rd millennium B.C.E.
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14 In the last centuries B.C.E., known as the __________ epoch, wet-rice agriculture and iron working were introduced into Japan.
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15 The Japanese developed the __________ religion in which numerous gods and spirits associated with the natural world were worshipped.
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16 The __________ clan gained dominance in Japan in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D. and developed an imperial cult.
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17 The family of languages spoken by the Polynesian peoples is called __________.
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18 The group of islands including Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand is called __________.
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19 The __________ were double canoes used for long-distance traveling by the Polynesians.
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20 The high chiefs of Hawaiian society, the __________, claimed descent from the gods and rested their claims on their abilities to recite their genealogical lineages.
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21 Social restrictions or __________ forbid certain activities and regulated social discourse in Hawaiian society.
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22 The __________ were the people who settled New Zealand.
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23 Tribal subdivisions called __________ were the primary unit of identity and community in Maori society of New Zealand.
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