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| 8299848143 | 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 | |
| 8299848144 | Black Death | Name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century | 1 | |
| 8299848148 | 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 | 2 | |
| 8299848149 | Ibn Battuta | A famous Arab scholar, merchant and public official who visited much of the Islamic world in the 14th century | 3 | |
| 8299848150 | Great Zimbabwe | A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast | 4 | |
| 8299848151 | Indian Ocean Trade Network | The world's largest sea-based system of communication and trade before 1500ce | 5 | |
| 8299848155 | Pochteca | Professional merchants among the Aztecs | 6 | |
| 8299848158 | Sand Roads | the routes of the trans-Saharan trade in Africa | 7 | |
| 8299848159 | Silk Roads | Land based trade routes that linked the distant peoples of Eurasia | 8 | |
| 8299848160 | Swahili Civilization | An East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century from a blending of Bantu, Islamic and other Indian Ocean trade elements | 9 | |
| 8299848161 | Srivijaya | A Malay kingdom that dominated the straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 ce. Noted for its creation of native/indian hybrid culture | 10 | |
| 8299848162 | Venice | An Italian city that by 1000 ce emerged as a major center of Mediterranean trade | 11 | |
| 8299848163 | 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 | 12 | |
| 8299848164 | Third-Wave Civilizations | Civilizations that emerged between 500 and 1500 ce and were typified by intensifying trade networks | 13 |
