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| 8684126029 | creoles | Persons of full-blooded European descent who were born in the Spanish American colonies. | 0 | |
| 8684126659 | Enlightenment | Intellectual movement in eighteenth-century Europe stressing natural laws and reason as the basis of authority. | 1 | |
| 8684127156 | Forbidden City of Beijing | Palace city of the Ming and Qing dynasties. | 2 | |
| 8684127726 | great plaza at Isfahan | The center of Safavid power in the seventeenth century created by Shah Abbas (r. 1587-1629) to represent the unification of trade, government, and religion under one supreme political authority. | 3 | |
| 8684127727 | Oceania | Collective name for the lands of Australia and New Zealand and the islands of the southwest Pacific Ocean. | 4 | |
| 8684129842 | Palace of Versailles | The palace complex, eleven miles away from the French capital of Paris, built by Louis XIV in the 1670s and 1680s to house and entertain his leading clergymen and nobles, with the hopes of diverting them from plotting against him. | 5 | |
| 8684129843 | peninsulares | Spaniards who, although born in Spain, resided in the Spanish colonial territories. They regarded themselves as superior to Spaniards born in the colonies (Creoles). | 6 | |
| 8684130746 | philosophes | Enlightenment thinkers who applied scientific reasoning to human interaction and society as opposed to nature. | 7 | |
| 8684131964 | scientific method | Method of inquiry based on experimentation in nature. Many of its principles were first laid out by the philosopher Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), who claimed that real science entailed the formulation of hypotheses that could be tested in carefully controlled experiments. | 8 | |
| 8684131965 | Taj Mahal | Royal palace of the Mughal Empire, built by Shah Jahan in the seventeenth century in homage to his wife, Mumtaz. | 9 |
