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| 14849767590 | Heien Period | The 300 years of cultural development after moving the capital to Heian, because it moved away from Chinese culture and it began to become more distant. | 0 | |
| 14848848463 | Pachacuti | Ruler of Inca society from 1438 to 1471; launched a series of military campaigns that gave Incas control of the region from Cuzco to the shores of Lake Titicaca | 1 | |
| 14849765207 | Grand Canal | The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire. | 2 | |
| 14848852124 | Quipu | An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information. | 3 | |
| 14849761691 | Protoindustrialization | preliminary shift away from an agricultural economy; workers became full- or part-time producers who worked at home in a capitalist system in which materials, work, orders, and sales depended on urban merchants; prelude to the Industrial revolution | 4 | |
| 14848874128 | Chinampas | Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields. | 5 | |
| 14849740326 | Artisans | A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. | 6 | |
| 14848901425 | human sacrifice | Killing of humans for a purpose like worshiping a god, practiced widely by the Aztecs and a little by the Maya | 7 | |
| 14849733551 | Foot Binding | Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household. | 8 | |
| 14848891995 | Mayans | A Mesoamerican civilization of Central America and southern Mexico. Achievements include mathematics, architecture, and a 365 day a year calendar. They flourished between the 4th and 12th centuries C.E.. | 9 | |
| 14849696604 | Neo-Confucianism | A philosophy that emerged in Song-dynasty China; it revived Confucian thinking while adding in Buddhist and Daoist elements. | 10 | |
| 14848981402 | Cahokia | an ancient settlement of southern Indians, located near present day St. Louis, it served as a trading center for 40,000 at its peak in A.D. 1200. | 11 | |
| 14849673737 | Sinification | Term used for the spread of Chinese culture. | 12 | |
| 14849013983 | Delhi Sultanate | Centralized Indian empire of varying extent, created by Muslim invaders. | 13 | |
| 14849635761 | Mamluks | Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state, ruling Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) | 14 | |
| 14849044169 | Khmer Empire | The most powerful and longest-lasting kingdom on the mainland of southwest Asia, centering in what is today Cambodia. | 15 | |
| 14849569902 | Seljuk Turks | Turkish tribe that gained control of the Abbasid empire and fought with the Byzantine Empire. | 16 | |
| 14849565751 | Sultan | the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) | 17 | |
| 14848855681 | tribute system | Chinese method of dealing with foreign lands and peoples that assumed the subordination of all non-Chinese authorities and required the payment of tribute | 18 | |
| 14848862640 | Mita | Labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion; all communities were expected to contribute; an essential aspect of Inca imperial control. | 19 | |
| 14849558017 | Sufis | mystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, & simple life | 20 | |
| 14848877957 | Aztecs | Also known as Mexica, they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax. | 21 | |
| 14849551029 | Abbasids | Dynasty that ruled much of the Muslim Empire from A.D. 750 to 1258 | 22 | |
| 14849051976 | Srivijaya Empire | Dominated Southeast Asia trade from its base on the island of Sumatra during the period from 670-1025 CE. | 23 | |
| 14849468103 | Theocracy | a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. | 24 | |
| 14849148037 | Bhakti | The leading devotion to a deity leading to salvation and Nirvana in Hinduism. | 25 | |
| 14849371094 | Rajput | regional military princes in India following the collapse of the Gupta Empire. | 26 |
