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| 15529775647 | Melaka | Southeast Asian kingdom that was predominantly Islamic | 0 | |
| 15529780891 | Marco Polo | (1254-1324) Italian merchant whose account of his travels to China and other lands became legendary. | 1 | |
| 15529813882 | Rabban Sauma | Nestorian Christian priest who was born in Mongol capital of Khanbaliq. The ilkhan of Persia sent him to Europe to enlist aid for the Mongol plans to attack Islamic lands in Western Asia. | 2 | |
| 15529824084 | Sharia | The Islamic holy law, drawn up by theologians from the Quran and accounts of Muhammad's life. | 3 | |
| 15529831113 | John of Montecorvino | 1247-1328 CE. Franciscan missionary who traveled to China in 1291 in order to win converts to Christianity; translated the new testament into Turkish to encourage Mongols to convert to Christianity. | 4 | |
| 15529846929 | Bubonic Plague | During the 14th century, pandemic that is believed to have began in the Yunnan region of Southwest China; spread by rodents and fleas along trade routes. | 5 | |
| 15529866880 | Little Ice Age | Period beginning in about 1300 CE when global temperatures declined for about 500 years. | 6 | |
| 15529880748 | Hongwu | Emperor who led a rebellion in China which toppled the Yuan Dynasty, established the Ming Dynasty (1368). | 7 | |
| 15529894240 | Mandarins | A special class of powerful officials sent out as emissaries of the central government to ensure that local officials implemented imperial laws. | 8 | |
| 15529904670 | Eunuchs | Men who underwent castration; they were the personal servants of ruling elites and occasionally wielded enormous power and wealth because of their influence with rulers and their families. | 9 | |
| 15529926240 | Qing Dynasty | Chinese dynasty that followed the Ming Dynasty and was begun by the Manchus (1644-1911) reached its peak during the reigns of Kangxi and Qianlong. | 10 | |
| 15529950493 | Yongle Encyclopedia | The second Ming emperor organized the preparation of vast collection of Chinese history, philosophy, and literature in an effort to preserve and glorify Chinese culture. | 11 | |
| 15529961486 | Renaissance | "rebirth" of interest in classical Greek and Roman artistic and intellectual creativity, began in Italy. | 12 | |
| 15529974900 | Michelangelo | Painter, sculptor, architect, and poet | 13 | |
| 15529984175 | Humanist | Renaissance scholars who studied the classic works of Greece and Rome; such as literature, history, and moral philosophy. | 14 | |
| 15530006835 | Zheng He | Chinese admiral and enuch who led seven large naval expeditions to the Indian Ocean; wanted to assert Chinese control of trade routes and establish a healthy respect for the Ming government. | 15 | |
| 15530040092 | Prince Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire. | 16 | |
| 15530047614 | Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. | 17 |
