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| 11128929049 | American Web | The network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas. Provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas | 0 | |
| 11128929050 | Black Death | Name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century | 1 | |
| 11128929051 | Bubonic Plague | A highly fatal disease spread by fleas, that devastated the Mediterranean world | 2 | |
| 11128929052 | Borobudur | The largest Buddhism monument anywhere in the world. Example of cultural exchange and syncretism | 3 | |
| 11128929053 | Ghana, Mali, Songhay | A series of important states that developed in the western and central Sudan, in response to the economic opportunities of trans-Saharan trade | 4 | |
| 11128929054 | Ibn Battuta | A famous Arab scholar, merchant and public official who visited much of the Islamic world in the 14th century, including the Sand Roads, Silk Roads, and Sea Roads | 5 | |
| 11128929055 | Great Zimbabwe | A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast | 6 | |
| 11128929056 | Indian Ocean Trade Network | The world's largest sea-based system of communication and trade before 1500ce | 7 | |
| 11128929057 | Monsoons | Alternating wind currents that blew eastward across the Indian Ocean in the summer and westward during the winter | 8 | |
| 11128929058 | Pochteca | Professional merchants among the Aztecs | 9 | |
| 11128929059 | Sand Roads | the routes of the trans-Saharan trade in Africa | 10 | |
| 11128929060 | Silk Roads | Land based trade routes that linked the distant peoples of Eurasia | 11 | |
| 11128929061 | Swahili Civilization | An East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century from a blending of Bantu, Islamic and other Indian Ocean trade elements | 12 | |
| 11128929062 | Srivijaya | A Malay kingdom that dominated the straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 ce. Noted for its creation of native/indian hybrid culture | 13 | |
| 11128929063 | Venice | An Italian city that by 1000 ce emerged as a major center of Mediterranean trade | 14 | |
| 11128929064 | trans-Saharan slave trade | A fairly small-scale trade that developed in the 12th century with west African slaves captured in raids being exported across the Sahara for sale mostly as household servants in Islamic North Africa | 15 | |
| 11128929065 | Third-Wave Civilizations | Civilizations that emerged between 500 and 1500 ce and were typified by intensifying trade networks | 16 | |
| 11128929066 | Buddhism | Religion that started in Northern India but spread to other parts of Asia via the Silk Roads | 17 | |
| 11128929067 | Byzantine Empire | Christian empire centered on Constantinople, which grew out of the Eastern Roman Empire. Very powerful due to its connections to the Silk Roads. | 18 | |
| 11128929068 | Mahayana Buddhism | Form of Buddhism that was most popular along the Silk Roads, emphasizing compassion and Buddha being a deity. | 19 | |
| 11128929069 | Luxury Goods | Main type of goods that were traded along the Silk Roads. | 20 | |
| 11128929070 | Steppes | Grasslands in North-Central Asia in which nomadic people like the Huns, Mongols, and Xiongnu inhabited. | 21 | |
| 11128929071 | Fleas on Rats | The Black Death spread across Eurasia through these two animals... (think about the song) | 22 | |
| 11128929072 | Islam | Most dominant religion of traders along the Indian Ocean Trade Network after 1000 CE | 23 | |
| 11128929073 | Angkor Wat | Largest religious structure in the world, it was built off the Hindu view of the cosmos. Today it is a Buddhist temple in Cambodia | 24 | |
| 11128929074 | Marco Polo | Famous European explorer who traveled along the Silk Roads to China. | 25 | |
| 11128929075 | Xiongnu | Nomadic people north of China that frequently raided and interacted with Chinese people, occasionally bringing the decline of empires (Mulan's villain) | 26 | |
| 11128929076 | West Africa | Region that imported salt in exchange for gold and slaves | 27 | |
| 11128929077 | Smallpox and measles | Disease that spread along the Silk Roads that helped contribute to the fall of both the Roman and the Han Empires | 28 | |
| 11128929078 | Abbasid Empire | The horrible conditions of the thousands of African slaves on plantations and in salt mines led to a massive slave revolt that brought down which Muslim Empire? | 29 | |
| 11128929079 | Indianization | Spread of Indian culture to Southeast Asia, such as a writing system, art, and god-kings. | 30 | |
| 11128929080 | Bulk Goods | The majority of the type of goods traded along the Indian Ocean Trade Network, mostly due to the ability to take heavy loads on ships | 31 |
