Units 3 and 4
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| 305709359 | Technology | Tools and innovations people use to meet their basic needs. Ex. Caravel, astrolabe | 0 | |
| 305709360 | Textiles | Cloth or fabric products. Textiles played important roles in trade. Ex. Silk in China, cotton in India | 1 | |
| 305709361 | Schism/doctrinal differences | "Split," refers to the split between the Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches, due to differences in religious beliefs and practices. Ex. Great Schism | 2 | |
| 305709362 | Epidemic disease | Infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people. Ex. Bubonic plague | 3 | |
| 305709363 | Guilds | Groups of people in the same business or trade organized in a single city to promote competition and product quality. Ex. Merchant guild | 4 | |
| 305709364 | Tax-farming | Government's use of private collectors to collect taxes. Ex. In Great Britain | 5 | |
| 305709365 | City-states | A city and its surrounding territory which acts as an individual state. Ex. Athens | 6 | |
| 305709366 | Sovereignty | Supreme and independent power or authority in government. Ex. Absolute monarchy | 7 | |
| 305709367 | Mercenaries | Foreign soldiers who fight for money, not loyalty to a country. Ex. Mercenaries hired in Rome | 8 | |
| 305709368 | Diasporas | Migration of religious or ethnic groups to foreign lands despite their continued affiliation with the land and customs of their origin. Ex. Jews living outside of Israel | 9 | |
| 305709369 | Syncretism | Combining different principles and beliefs. Ex. Vodun religion in the Caribbean | 10 | |
| 305709370 | Tribute system | A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. Ex. Korea was a tributary kingdom to Chian | 11 | |
| 305709371 | Infidel | One who does not accept a particular faith. Ex. Anyone who disagreed with Catholicism in Medieval Europe | 12 | |
| 305709372 | Chartered cities | City in which the governing system is defined by the city's own charter document rather than by state, provincial, regional or national laws. Ex. Jamestown | 13 | |
| 305709373 | Usury | Lending money at an excessively high rate of interest. Ex. Roman money-lenders towards the decline of Empire, causing many people to become poverish | 14 | |
| 305709374 | Sacrament | Formal religious act conferring a specific grace on those who receive it. Ex. Baptism in Christianity | 15 | |
| 305709375 | Caravel | Small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship which helped make transoceanic connections possible. Ex. Used by Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic | 16 | |
| 305709376 | Tariffs | Taxes on imports or exports. Ex. Import tariff on Asian goods in Europe | 17 | |
| 305709377 | Conquistadors | Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain. Ex. Pizarro | 18 | |
| 305709378 | Absolutism | Form of government in which the ruler has complete and absolute power. Ex. Absolute monarchy | 19 | |
| 305709379 | Joint-stock companies | Large trading companies with shares of stock in the company. Ex. London Company | 20 | |
| 305709380 | Trade diasporas | Communities of merchants living in foreign areas to promote international trade. Ex. Asian merchants in Europe | 21 | |
| 305709381 | Excommunication | Banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church. Ex. The Pope and Patriarch excommunicating each other from the Catholic and Orthodox churches, respectively | 22 | |
| 305709382 | Slave trade | Business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves. Ex. Selling Africans as slaves to the Americas as part of triangular trade | 23 | |
| 305709383 | Manumission | Release from slavery. Ex. Emancipation | 24 | |
| 305709384 | Renaissance | Rebirth of intellectual, cultural, and political values in Italy and later northern Europe. The Renaissance focused on clasical styles in art, architecture, and literature, and secular ideas such as the concept of humanism. Ex. Italian and Northern Renaissances | 25 | |
| 305709385 | Protestant | Reformation started by Martin Luther which refuted Catholic principles such as the church being a source of religious truth and clergy celibacy, and believed that only faith could gain salvation. Ex. Protestant Reformation | 26 | |
| 305709386 | Coerced labor systems | Mandatory government labor. Ex. Corvee, Incan Mita | 27 | |
| 305709387 | Mercantilism | Economic theory stating governments should promote the internal economy to improve tax revenues and limit imports. Ex. Triangular trade/Atlantic System | 28 |
