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| 110517184 | Abbu Al-abas | founder of the Abbasid dynasty | 0 | |
| 110517185 | Abbasid Caliphate | overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital at Baghdad | 1 | |
| 110517186 | Mecca | birthplace of the Prophet Muhammed; ritual center of the islamic religion | 2 | |
| 110517187 | Muslim | one who submits to the will of god; Followers of Islam | 3 | |
| 110517188 | Islam | religion founded by the Prophet Muhammed on the basis of his divine revelations which were collected into the Quran; Islam calls on all people to recognize one god, Allah who rewards or punishes believer after death according the way they lead their lives | 4 | |
| 110517189 | Muhammed | arab prophet; founder of islam | 5 | |
| 110517190 | 5 pillars of Islam | prayer 5 times a day, fasting, hodge, wealth sharing, confession of faith | 6 | |
| 110517191 | Medina | agricultural city in western Arabia to which Muhammed and his followers fled to escape persecution | 7 | |
| 110784850 | Quran | sacred text of Islam composed of the divine revelations of the prophet Muhammed | 8 | |
| 110784851 | Caliphate | office established in the succession to the Prophet Muhammed to rule the islamic empire; the name of that empire | 9 | |
| 110784852 | Shi'ites | believed that Muhammed's cousin, Ali, was the natural heir; God vests leadership through decendents | 10 | |
| 110784853 | Sunnis | believe that the community should select its on leadership; supported the 1st 3 caliphs; majority religion in most islamic countries | 11 | |
| 110784854 | Umayyad Caliphate | 1st hereditary dyasty of the Muslim caliphs w/ the succession of Yazid | 12 | |
| 110784855 | Sultan | arabic title that means power; used by the Seljuk family in the Turkish, Muslim state | 13 | |
| 110784856 | Shar'ia | law of islam; foundation of islamic civilization | 14 | |
| 110784857 | Mamluks | turkic, military slaves for the Abbasid Caliphate | 15 | |
| 110784858 | Ibn Rushd (Averroes) | wrote Aristotelian philosophical writings | 16 | |
| 110784859 | Crusades | fighting between the Christians and Muslims for the Holy Land of Jerusalem and the spread of Islam | 17 | |
| 110784860 | Charlemagne | King of the Franks (emperor); est. the Carolingian empire through a series of conquests, sponsered a brief intellectual revival (although illiterate himself) | 18 | |
| 110784861 | Byzantine Empire | eastern portion of the Roman empire; fell to the Ottomans | 19 | |
| 110784862 | Hagia Sophia | greatest Byzantne architectural monument (cathedral) located in Constantinople; dates back to the Justinian reign; means "sacred wisdom" | 20 | |
| 110784863 | Cyrrilic Alphabet | writing system perfected by Cyril and Methodius that came to be used by the slavic christians advering to the Orthodox. | 21 | |
| 110784864 | Fief | grant of land in return for military service | 22 | |
| 110784865 | Serf | agricultural laborers who were legally bound to a lord's property who owed dues | 23 | |
| 110784866 | Vassals | noble followers to which kings granted fiefs | 24 | |
| 110784867 | Papacy | central administration of the Roman Catholic Church of which the Pope is the head | 25 | |
| 110784868 | Holy Roman Empire | loose federation of German states and principalities headed by an emperor elected by the princes | 26 | |
| 110784869 | monasticism | religion requiering followers to live apart from secular society and lead a life of celibacy, obediance, and poverty | 27 | |
| 111004611 | Benedict of Nursia | Introduced monosticism and wrote rules to rules to govern the monks' behaviors; est. monastaries in Italy | 28 | |
| 111004612 | Varangians | Swedish Vikings who pursued raiding and trade and built kingdoms along the river of Eastern Europe and Russia | 29 | |
| 111364976 | Grand Canal | 1100 mile long waterway connecting the Yellow and Yanzi rivers; started by the Han and completed by the Sui | 30 | |
| 111364977 | Li Shimin | founder of the Tang empire; led the expansion of the empire into Central Asia | 31 | |
| 111364978 | Tang Empire | unified China and part of Central Asia; capital located at Chang'an | 32 | |
| 111364979 | Chang'an | capital of the Tang empire; became the center of the tributary system | 33 | |
| 111393248 | Wu Zhao | female empress who sezed control o the gov't, claiming to be a bodhisattva; favored buddhist and daoists in her court over confucianists | 34 | |
| 111393249 | Song empire | empire in southern China, distinguised forits advances in technology, medicine, astronomy, and math | 35 | |
| 111393250 | junk | large, flat bottom ship produced in the Tang, Ming, and Song empires; designed for long-distance comercial travel | 36 | |
| 111393251 | Neo-confucianism | new approaches to interpretating classic confucian texts | 37 | |
| 111393252 | Koryo | Korean kingdom that was destroyed by Mongol invasion | 38 | |
| 111393253 | Tale of Genji | novel about Fujiwara court culture written by Murasaki Shikibu (female) | 39 | |
| 111393254 | Kamakura Shoganate | Japan's 1st decentralized military gov't (located at Honshu) | 40 | |
| 111393255 | Annam (Dai Vet) | early Chinese term for the rice-based agricultural Vietnam; depended on the Red River Valley and Mekong River; its rival was Chinampa | 41 |
