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| 5371624712 | Silk Roads | trade networks spanning across Eurasia(land); small cities grew along the silk roads; provided security for travelers; cultures, goods, technologies, and diseases spread along the silk road |  | 0 |
| 5371674008 | Sea roads | Indian ocean(and south china sea) trade network; used monsoons to take advantage of sailing; better for bulk items; Swahili coast was gateway to west Africa, rulers got rich;Arabic spread to Swahili coast |  | 1 |
| 5371737877 | Sand roads | Trade network across the Sahara Desert; spread Islam to west Africa; key routs for gold and salt trade; domesticated the camel |  | 2 |
| 5371787179 | Theravada Buddhism | more physiological and individualistic form; portrays Buddha as an immensely wise teacher and model | 3 | |
| 5371809180 | straits of malacca | major sea route between China and India; taxes passing ships provided resources for cities |  | 4 |
| 5371843813 | Srivijaya | Kingdom in Southeast Asia that controlled much of the strait of malacca |  | 5 |
| 5371867573 | Borobudur | Large Buddhist monument that was abandoned bu is now used to celebrate buddha's birthday by the small Buddhist community in indonesia |  | 6 |
| 5371882177 | Tenochtitlan | Mayan city that was a center for the trade networks that through the americas |  | 7 |
| 5371953746 | Chinampas | Mesoamerican agriculture system (floating gardens) |  | 8 |
| 5371963000 | tribute system | system where nomads would preform the kowtow and give the Chinese gifts in exchange for trading in their markets; ways to keep peace; let china believe they were in control |  | 9 |
| 5371990244 | quipu | ropes with beads containing numerical information; used for tribute system |  | 10 |
| 5372006237 | Aztecs | mesoamerican civilization located in Mexico; strong military; expected a lot from their conquered peoples |  | 11 |
| 5372038129 | Inca | Mesoamerican civilization located in the Andes; developed terrace farming; extensive network of roads with many inns and pubs were |  | 12 |
| 5372065128 | Western Hemisphere trade patterns | short trade routes; goods traded in small amounts due to lack of the wheel/ large animals | 13 | |
| 5372087760 | Swahili Coast | adopted Arabic; link for trade for west Africa (rulers grew rich); linked to Indian ocean world by Islam; Great Zimbabwe was result of trade along Swahili coast |  | 14 |
| 5372141131 | Great Zimbabwe | city along the Swahili coast; major center for gold trade |  | 15 |
| 5372155782 | Song Dynasty | Strong Neo-Confucianism, patriarchy (foot binding); persecution of all foreign religions; used tribute system to keep peace; many technological achievement like paper money, gunpowder, and the compass |  | 16 |
| 5372184358 | Tang Dynasty | open to new religions; golden age of technology and innovation; type of civil service exam; exchanged with Vietnam and Korea |  | 17 |
| 5372203784 | Neo-Confucianism | rebirth of Confucian idea in the song dynasty; tightened patriarchy | 18 | |
| 5372215031 | Grand Canal | Linked original centers of Chinese civilizations on the north china plain with the Yangtze river; major economic effects on trade |  | 19 |
| 5372225738 | Heian Era | rich culture in japan that leads to feudalism in Japan; named after its capital Heian; peak of Chinese influences and art and peotry | 20 | |
| 5372249842 | Bushido | Way of the warrior; Japanese samurai code of honor with celebrations and values of martial arts, bravery, endurance, loyalty, honor and preference over death rather than surrender | 21 | |
| 5372278271 | samurai | warrior class of Japan during their feudal age; followed the Bushido | 22 | |
| 5372284265 | Shinto | Japanese religion that combined their native religion with aspects of buddhism |  | 23 |
| 5372290009 | Kami | sacred spirits of Japan; ancestor and nature spirits they come to worship in shinto |  | 24 |
| 5372308287 | Zen Buddhism | Extension of Buddhism in Japan that stressed meditation; | 25 | |
| 5372328349 | Diamyo | one of the great lords in feudal japan that were vassals to the shogun |  | 26 |
| 5372339233 | Sinification | spread and influence of Chinese culture | 27 | |
| 5372349410 | Mecca | Sacred city of islam that houses the Kaaba; originally a trading city for the Arab tribes; destination of the Hajj; birthplace of Muhammed |  | 28 |
| 5372369939 | Muhammed | founder of Islam; last prophet of Allah; born to a Quraysh family, parents died and lived with uncle and was a merchant | 29 | |
| 5372386020 | Monotheism | belief in one god | 30 | |
| 5372391487 | Five pillar of Islam | 1. Praise Allah as sole god 2. Give to charity 3. pray 5 times a day towards mecca 4. fast during Ramadan 5. complete a hajj |  | 31 |
| 5372407092 | Jihad | war against anyone who threatens Islamic beliefs and non-muslims | 32 | |
| 5372418058 | Coptic Christianity | branch of Christianity that exists in Ethiopia; spread there from Egypt and Nubia; centers of Coptic Christianity exist today still |  | 33 |
| 5372457437 | Sunni/shi'ia/sufi | branches of slam with differ net ideas of how the Islamic world should rule | 34 | |
| 5372467361 | Sunni muslims | majority of Muslims; believe that the rightful rulers of the Islamic empire should be chosen by the community as the rightful military and political leaders; developed Ulama who had religious authority | 35 | |
| 5372489497 | Shia muslims | minority; believe that Islamic empire rules should be descendants of muhammed | 36 | |
| 5372608327 | Sufi | mystics of Islam that thought more devotion to Allah than strict rules; recruited by following army | 37 | |
| 5372622467 | Dhimmi | word for christian and Jews; "people of the book" | 38 | |
| 5372627423 | Ummayyad Caliphate | first Islamic caliphate that focused greatly on expansion and military; moved capital to Damascus; ruling class was arab military aristocracy | 39 | |
| 5372649771 | Abbasid Caliphate | overthrew the Ummayyads; focused greatly on cultural and intellectual advancement; regional rulers were loyal but had autonomy; capital in Baghdad; non- Arabs played prominent role | 40 | |
| 5372667426 | Dhow | Arab Ships | 41 | |
| 5372670667 | Caliph | Religious leader of the Muslim state; considered a representative of Allah on earth; like a dynasty | 42 | |
| 5372681533 | Animism | African polytheistic religion; believe that spirits are in every part of life; spiritual life after death | 43 | |
| 5372692766 | Griots | storytellers of Africa who told family histories and stories through songs; not written; advisers to the king in Mali | 44 | |
| 5372700033 | Mansa Musa | famous West African ruler who completed a Hajj; converted west africa to Islam; increased trade and influence from the eastern Muslim countries |  | 45 |
| 5372713339 | Ibn Battuta | Muslim traveler from Morocco who traveled all across the Islamic world and china; recorded his experiences and findings in a journal |  | 46 |
| 5372722321 | Timbuktu | a major center for trade and muslim learning in west africa; developed a university that attracted many scholars all across the Muslim world |  | 47 |
| 5372733381 | Byzantine Empire | Eastern Roman Empire; capital at Constantinople; major center for trade between west Europe and the east; Preserved Greek learning and passed it to the Arabs; originally orthodox but then converted to islam; greatly influenced Kievan Rus | 48 | |
| 5372753329 | Justinian | emperor of the byzantine empire; famous for his law codes and his attempt for trying to reunify the roman empire | 49 | |
| 5372761698 | Greek fire | weapon developed by the Greeks to fend off the Arabs; the world first flame thrower | 50 | |
| 5372774925 | Caesaropapism | found in byzantine empire; where church and state are closely related | 51 | |
| 5372778955 | schism | division of an opposing group into factions | 52 | |
| 5372789185 | Orthodoxy | conforming to what is generally accepted as what is true | 53 | |
| 5372801788 | Iconoclasm | destruction of holy images; | 54 | |
| 5372807770 | patriarch | religious ruler of eastern Orthodox Christianity; appointed by the Byzantine emperor |  | 55 |
| 5372820668 | Kiev | trade city in southern russia; greatly influenced by byzantine empire | 56 | |
| 5372826021 | Vladimir | ruler of Kievan Rus; converted russia to Eastern orthodox | 57 | |
| 5372832345 | Cyril | Byzantine missionary sent to Kievan rus and developed a language for the Slavic speaking people |  | 58 |
| 5372844803 | Franks | groups of nomadic people who established themselves after the fall of Rome in modern France | 59 | |
| 5372855006 | Charlemagne | unified much of Europe that fell apart after his death; king of franks; ruled Carolingian empire |  | 60 |
| 5372876006 | Eastern Orthodox Christianity | branch that developed in eastern europe; had a patriarch; spoke greek; priests could grow beards and marry |  | 61 |
| 5372900544 | Vikings | Scandinavian Peoples who established colonies in Greenland and the Americas; influenced the Kievan Rus | 62 | |
| 5372909896 | feudalism | political system where there is very decentralized government |  | 63 |
| 5372914721 | manorialism | economic system for a feudal society; each estate sold their products separately | 64 | |
| 5372928997 | Holy roman Empire | term invented in the twelfth century to describe the Germany-based empire founded by Otto I in 962 C.E. |  | 65 |
| 5372936084 | Magna Carta | document that prevented an absolute monarchy in England; established a parliament | 66 | |
| 5372942148 | Parliament | assembly of government that addresses and discusses major issues; lawmaking system |  | 67 |
| 5372955264 | Agricultural Improvements | adapted a better plow to be used for Europe's dense soil; improvements and more use of the windmills from Persia and developed the water mill | 68 | |
| 5372975132 | Crusades | religous war to take back Jerusalem; brought back many Muslim and Greek texts/advancements |  | 69 |
| 5372990841 | Thomas Aquinas | Italian philosopher who believed htat science could explain religion |  | 70 |
| 5372995919 | Latin | the major language spoken among the roman catholic church; basis for almost all western languages | 71 | |
| 5372999472 | Bubonic plague | bacterial epidemic that spread throughout Eurasia through rats and insects; mongols spread it along their trade routes; killed about 1/3 of population in europe | 72 | |
| 5373010151 | Gothic | architectual style in western Europe that included arches and flying buttresses, large windows |  | 73 |
| 5373025797 | Guilds | associations of artisans who controlled a specific craft in a particular town; trade union | 74 |
