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| 4941566221 | 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 | |
| 4941566222 | Black Death | Name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century | 1 | |
| 4941566223 | Bubonic Plague | A highly fatal disease spread by fleas, that devastated the Mediterranean world | 2 | |
| 4941566224 | Borobudur | The largest Buddhism monument anywhere in the world. Example of cultural exchange and syncretism | 3 | |
| 4941566225 | Jie People | A nomadic people who controlled much of Northern China in the third and 4th centuries | 4 | |
| 4941566226 | 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 | 5 | |
| 4941566227 | Ibn Battuta | A famous Arab scholar, merchant and public official who visited much of the Islamic world in the 14th century | 6 | |
| 4941566228 | Great Zimbabwe | A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast | 7 | |
| 4941566229 | Indian Ocean Trade Network | The world's largest sea-based system of communication and trade before 1500ce | 8 | |
| 4941566230 | Oasis cities of Central Asia | Cities such as Merv, Samarkand, Khotan and Dunhuang that became centers of trans-Eurasian trade | 9 | |
| 4941566231 | Sailendra | a kingdom of central Java that flourished from the 8th century to the 10th century | 10 | |
| 4941566232 | Monsoons | Alternating wind currents that blew eastward across the Indian Ocean in the summer and westward during the winter | 11 | |
| 4941566233 | Pochteca | Professional merchants among the Aztecs | 12 | |
| 4941566234 | Malaysians | Speakers of Austronesian languages from what is now Indonesia who became major traders in Southeast Asia and Madagascar | 13 | |
| 4941566235 | Sudan | A large region of West Africa that became part of a major exchange circuit | 14 | |
| 4941566236 | Sand Roads | the routes of the trans-Saharan trade in Africa | 15 | |
| 4941566237 | Silk Roads | Land based trade routes that linked the distant peoples of Eurasia | 16 | |
| 4941566238 | Swahili Civilization | An East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century from a blending of Bantu, Islamic and other Indian Ocean trade elements | 17 | |
| 4941566239 | Srivijaya | A Malay kingdom that dominated the straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 ce. Noted for its creation of native/indian hybrid culture | 18 | |
| 4941566240 | Venice | An Italian city that by 1000 ce emerged as a major center of Mediterranean trade | 19 | |
| 4941566241 | 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 | 20 | |
| 4941566242 | Third-Wave Civilizations | Civilizations that emerged between 500 and 1500 ce and were typified by intensifying trade networks | 21 |
