5 what was the role of trade in the middle

5. What was the role of trade in the Middle Ages/Renaissance?
Trade brought many new ideas and goods to Europe. ... During the Renaissance people
began using coins to buy goods which created a money economy. Moneychangers were
needed to covert one type of currency into another. Therefore, many craftspeople,
merchants, and bankers became more important i society.
6. Know the various indigenous American cultures and their habitats and environments.
The Arctic culture area, a cold, flat, treeless region (actually a frozen desert) near the
Arctic Circle in present-day Alaska, Canada and Greenland, was home to the Inuit and

the Aleut. Both groups spoke, and continue to speak, dialects descended from what
scholars call the Eskimo-Aleut language family. The Subarctic culture area, mostly
composed of swampy, piney forests (taiga) and waterlogged tundra, stretched across
much of inland Alaska and Canada. The Plains culture area comprises the vast prairie
region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, from present-day
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
7. Be familiar with the differences between the Aztecs, Incans, and Mayans. Where were
their civilizations located? The Aztec civilization was located in Mexico. The Aztecs
society was highly stratified, the emperor and priests at the top ruled a powerful empire
with a population of ten to twenty million that dominated subjugated tribes in
surrounding areas. Maintained a trade network. The Mayans are civilized in Mexico,
Yucatan to be more specific. They were the only American culture to develop a fully
written language and developed systems of mathematics and a calendar. Like the Aztecs,
they practiced human sacrifice and subjugated other nearby tribes in pursuit of people
and goods. They also had an extensive agriculture system producing not only food but
also cotton which was used as a source of trade and wealth. The Inca civilization was
located in Cuzco, Peru where they ruled 32 million people. The Inca religion was
centered on the sun and its seasons, human and animal sacrifice was common. Like the