Chapter 7 World History (Africa and the Americas)
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koritheswimmer on January 30, 2012
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BASIS Oro Valley Class of 2017
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 How many Mayans exist today? | 6 million |
| Where do modern Mayans live? | Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras |
| Who were treated like the following? and for how long? -__ centuries of depression, exploitation, and neglect by Spanish colonizers and independent governments that followed | Mayans (over the past 500 years) |
| 5 Classical Civilizations | Greeks, Persians, Romans, Chinese, Indians |
| Smaller civilizations during the classical period: | Meso-american Maya, Meroë, Peruvian Moche, Axum, Niger river valley |
| Who do the histories of the civilizations not neatly fit into the usual chronological boundaries of the classical age in Eurasia? | -because patterns of historical development around the world did not always coincide precisely -uneven population distribution (with most of it in Eurasia) |
| Around the year "0", the world population stood at approximately ______ million. The population of the U.S. today is around ______ million. | 250, 310 |
| During this time period, the human population was unevenly distributed. Eurasia had over _____%, Africa _____%, and the Americas ___ to ___% | 80, 11, 5, 7 |
| Why do historians focus more on Eurasia than Africa or the Americas? | Unevenness in population distribution |
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