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| 276445414 | Silk Road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles) | 0 | |
| 276445415 | Parthians | Persian dynasty. Based in Iran and extended to Mesopotamia. Had very heavy calvary (horses and armored troops). Government followed the example of the Achaemenid administration. | 1 | |
| 276445416 | Sasanid Empire | Iranian empire, established ca. 226, with a capital in Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia. The Sasanid emperors established Zoroastrianism as the state religion. Islamic Arab armies overthrew the empire ca. 640. (p. 225) | 2 | |
| 276445417 | stirrup | support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go | 3 | |
| 276445418 | Indian Ocean Maritime System | In premodern times, a network of seaports, trade routes, and maritime culture linking countries on the rim of the Indian Ocean from Africa to Indonesia. (p. 207) | 4 | |
| 276445419 | trans-Saharan caravan routes | Trading network linking North Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara. (p. 210) | 5 | |
| 276445420 | Sahel | a strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas | 6 | |
| 276445421 | sub-Saharan Africa | The region south of the Sahara Desert in Africa; includes some of the world's richest deposits of minerals, yet still remains one of the largest regions of undeveloped natural resources in the world. | 7 | |
| 276445422 | steppes | wide rolling grassy plains that stretch from the Black Sea to northern China | 8 | |
| 276445423 | savanna | a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | 9 | |
| 276445424 | tropical rain forest | a rain forest in a tropical area | 10 | |
| 276445425 | "great traditions" | historians term for a literate, well-institutionalized complex of religiouis and socila beliefs and practices adhered to by diverse societies over a broad geographical area | 11 | |
| 276445426 | "small traditions" | historians term for a localized, usually nonliterate, set of customs and beliefs adhered to by a single society | 12 | |
| 276445427 | Bantu | a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent | 13 | |
| 276445428 | Armenia | One of the earliest Christian kingdoms, situated in eastern Anatolia and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. (p. 221) | 14 | |
| 276445429 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea | 15 |
