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| 6682024656 | Charlemagne | the Frankish king that successfully state-built in the late 700s when Europe was in chaos | 0 | |
| 6682024657 | Magna Carta | a government document that was imposed on the king by his barons that guaranteed the nobility certain rights and privileges | 1 | |
| 6682024658 | Hundred Years' War | a war that lasted from 1337-1453 that coincided with social unrest on both sides and black death | 2 | |
| 6682024659 | Reconquista | a conflict in Spain that had Spain and Portugal go against the Moorish armies and lasted from the early 1000s-1492 | 3 | |
| 6682024660 | caliph | a successor that governed the Muslim world and combined political and religious power | 4 | |
| 6682024661 | Sunni-Shiite split | a religious split that was caused through civil war that led to power passed to the Umayyad caliphate | 5 | |
| 6682024662 | Abbasid caliphate | the caliphate that followed the Umayyad regime and presided over the golden age of classical Islamic culture | 6 | |
| 6682024663 | madrasas | centers of learning in the classical Islamic culture | 7 | |
| 6682024664 | Arab traders | traders who traded around in sub-Saharan Africa that played a crucial role in the expansion of Arab slave trade | 8 | |
| 6682024665 | Ghana | an African state that emerged as an Islamic power in the 800s and 1000s thanks to large deposits of gold and its prominent role in sub-Saharan trade | 9 | |
| 6682024666 | Mali | another Islamic African empire that was influenced with less violence than Ghana and was very important in the trans-Saharan trade network | 10 | |
| 6682024667 | Mansa Musa | a devout Muslim who gained fame throughout Africa and Europe as one of the world's wealthiest monarchs as ruler of Mali | 11 | |
| 6682024668 | Swahili city-states | city-states that flourished between 1000 and 1500 on the shores of East Africa and were heavily involved in the Indian Ocean trade network | 12 | |
| 6682024669 | Great Zimbabwe | a mighty city-state that emerged in the non-Islamic parts of sub-Saharan Africa | 13 | |
| 6682024670 | Tang Dynasty | an empire that emerged after the fall of the Sui Dynasty in which China became larger than it had ever been before | 14 | |
| 6682024671 | An Shi Rebellion | a peasant rebellion that emerged in the 700s and stemmed from hatred of the Tang elite's love of luxury | 15 | |
| 6682024672 | Song Empire | an empire that ruled east-central China that had political troubles but steady population growth, increased urbanization, and thriving trade | 16 | |
| 6682024673 | Yuan Empire | a Mongol-ruled China led by Kublai Khan that reunifed China as a single state and made China rich and powerful | 17 | |
| 6682024674 | Marco Polo | a European trader that traveled along the Silk Road and visited Yuan China and the court of Kublai Khan himself | 18 | |
| 6682024675 | black death | a bubonic plague epidemic that swept through China and into the Middle East and Europe, killing a huge portion of the world population | 19 | |
| 6682024676 | Ming dynasty | a dynasty that was established by the rebel who brought down the Yuan Empire named Hongwu and repaired the damage done by the wars of 1300s and resurrected the political and administrative regime | 20 | |
| 6682024677 | Zheng He | a Chinese admiral who made seven long voyages to Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and East Africa | 21 | |
| 6682024678 | Heian period | a period considered to be Japan's classical era that had a chancellorship be in control of political power and had the emperor be a symbolic figurehead | 22 | |
| 6682024679 | Fujiwara clan | a clan that established permanent control over the chancellorship and was Japan's ruling family from the mid-800s to the mid-1100s | 23 | |
| 6682024680 | Taira-Minamoto War | a civil conflict that led to the Minamoto driving the Fujiwara from power and created a new form of government called the shogunate | 24 | |
| 6682024681 | shogun | where the real political power rested during feudal Japan | 25 | |
| 6682024682 | daimyo | noble warlords that the shogun shared power with and received control over parcels of land called shoen | 26 | |
| 6682024683 | samurai | a warrior elite that were privileged but bound to a strict code of loyalty, honor, and bravery called Bushido | 27 | |
| 6682024684 | Delhi Sultanate | a rule that was established by Muslim generals in northern India that lasted from 1206-1526, effectively introducing Islam to India | 28 | |
| 6682024685 | Timur | a Central Asian warlord that attacked Delhi from the north and put massive pressure on the sultanate | 29 | |
| 6682024686 | crusades | holy wars that were declared by the pope in Catholic Europe that were in an effort to recapture the holy land in Jerusalem | 30 | |
| 6682024687 | Genghis Khan | the Mongol ruler who pillaged Eurasia and conquered many territories, creating one of the largest empires in world history | 31 | |
| 6682024688 | pax Mongolica | the brief semi-unification of Eurasia during the 1200s | 32 | |
| 6682024689 | Anasazi | the most famous early culture in Southwest North America that lived in complex dwellings known as pueblos | 33 | |
| 6682024690 | Cahokia | a city established by the earth mound-building cultures of the Mississippian civilization | 34 | |
| 6682024691 | Toltecs | an aggressive warrior society that ruled much of Mesoamerica between the 800s and the 1100s | 35 | |
| 6682024692 | Aztecs | a major group in Mesoamerica that were known as the Mexica and adopted cultural and religious practices of pyramid building and human sacrifice | 36 | |
| 6682024693 | Incas | an Andes people that built a massive empire in less than a century and had a road network, an elaborate bureaucracy, and extreme social stratification | 37 | |
| 6682024694 | movable-type printing | one of the most revolutionary technology to come out of China that originated in the 200s C.E. | 38 | |
| 6682024695 | Ibn Battuta | a Moroccan trader that made a pilgrimage to Mecca and embarked on a journey lasting almost 30 years venturing around Africa, Central Asia, and even as far as Indonesia | 39 | |
| 6682024696 | medieval period | an era that was viewed as completely lacking in culture and was considered to be the "Dark Ages" | 40 | |
| 6682024697 | scholasticism | the dominant philosophy of the Middle Ages that had thinkers reconcile Greco-Roman learning from the past with Christian teachings | 41 | |
| 6682024698 | chivalry | the knightly duty to protect and idealize women | 42 | |
| 6682024699 | movable-type printing press | an invention by Johannes Gutenberg that stimulated a growth in literacy and made it more available | 43 | |
| 6682024700 | Renaissance | a cultural rebirth prominent in Italy that caused significant advancements in art, literature, architecture, and science | 44 | |
| 6682024701 | humanism | the conviction that to be a human is something to rejoice in | 45 | |
| 6682024702 | "people of the book" | people who believe in a single God, specifically Christians and Jews that were acknowledged by Muslims | 46 | |
| 6682024703 | Five Pillars of Faith | five pillars that Muslims must stay dedicated to no matter what | 47 | |
| 6682024704 | umma | a political and social community linked by religious belief | 48 | |
| 6682024705 | Neo-Confucianism | a revival of Confucius's teachings that reinforced China's cultural tendency towards hierarchy and obedience | 49 | |
| 6682024706 | specialization of labor | a structured labor that created a need for artisans, manual laborers, and a growing number of others | 50 | |
| 6682024707 | caste systems | a class system prominent in India that had specific people with specific roles assigned into a class | 51 | |
| 6682024708 | guilds | associations that had artisans and skilled workers band together and maintain a monopoly on certain trades | 52 | |
| 6682024709 | slavery | a form of coerced labor that was especially prominent in Africa with the Arab slave trade | 53 | |
| 6682024710 | devshirme system | a system established by the Ottoman Turks that took young men from non-Muslim families and groomed them to serve as privileged slaves in civil service | 54 | |
| 6682024711 | mit'a system | a form of coerced labor in the Americas that had commoner clans known as ayllu cooperate to fulfill the labor obligations they owed | 55 |
