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| 14778940807 | Silk Road | An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea extending some 6,440 km (4,000 mi) and linking China with the Roman Empire. Marco Polo followed the route on his journey to Cathay. |  | 0 |
| 14778940808 | Black Death | A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351 |  | 1 |
| 14778940809 | Indian Ocean trading network | The world's largest sea-based system of communication and exchange before 1500 C.E., Indian Ocean commerce stretched from southern China to eastern Africa and included not only the exchange of luxury and bulk goods but also the exchange of ideas and crops. |  | 2 |
| 14778940810 | Srivijaya | A Malay kingdom that dominated the Straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 C.E.; noted for its creation of a native/Indian hybrid culture. |  | 3 |
| 14778940811 | Angkor Wat | A temple complex built in the Khmer Empire and dedicated to the Hindu God, Vishnu. |  | 4 |
| 14778940812 | Swahili Civilization | An East African civilization that emerged in the eighth century C.E. from a blending of Bantu, Islamic, and other Indian Ocean trade elements. |  | 5 |
| 14778940813 | Great Zimbabwe | City, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state. |  | 6 |
| 14778940814 | Sand Roads | A term used to describe the routes of the trans-Sahara trade in Africa. |  | 7 |
| 14778940815 | Arabian Camel | An important way of transportation on the Sand and Silk roads for thousands of years |  | 8 |
| 14778940816 | Ghana, Mali, Songhai | West African kingdoms that built wealth and power through trans-Saharan trade of salt and gold |  | 9 |
| 14778940817 | trans-Saharan slave trade | A fairly small-scale trade that developed in the twelfth century C.E., exporting West African slaves captured in raids across the Sahara for sale mostly as household servants in Islamic North Africa; the difficulty of travel across the desert limited the scope of this trade. |  | 10 |
| 14778940818 | American Web | A term used to describe the network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas; although less intense and complete than the Afro-Eurasian trade networks, this web nonetheless provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas. |  | 11 |
| 14778940819 | Thorfinn Karlsfeni | A well-born, wealthy merchant and seaman of Norwegian Viking background, Karlsfeni led an unscuccessful expedition to establish a colony on the coast of what is now Newfoundland, Canada, in the early eleventh century C.E. |  | 12 |
| 14778940820 | Pochteca | Special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items |  | 13 |
