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| 711020774 | Colombian Exchange | Biological and ecological exchange that occurred after European arrival in the New World; peoples of Europe and Africa came to the Americas; animals, plants, and diseases moved between the Old and New Worlds. | 0 | |
| 620621908 | Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought | 1 | |
| 1026241699 | manioc | another staple of sedentary agriculturists in the Americas; principal crop in the lowlands of South America and the Caribbean islands. | 2 | |
| 480403590 | Vodun | African religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti. | 3 | |
| 745501250 | Sikkhism | india, syncretic religion (hinduism and islam) | 4 | |
| 54044619 | reconnaissance | A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination | 5 | |
| 872252081 | Sundiata | the founder of Mali empire. He crushed his enemies and won control of the gold trade routes | 6 | |
| 506216427 | Renaissance art | Art in which humans are the focus (humanism). | 7 | |
| 533216820 | Shakespeare | A popular English playwright and poet in the 16th century. | 8 | |
| 110777822 | Cervantes | Author of Don Quixote | 9 | |
| 578077835 | Journey to the West | It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Originally published anonymously in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty, its authorship has been ascribed to the scholar Wu Cheng'en since the 20th century. The novel is a fictionalised account of the mythologized legends around the Buddhist monk Xuánzàng's pilgrimage to India during the Táng dynasty in order to obtain Buddhist religious texts | 10 | |
| 420907943 | Kabuki | A popular type of Japanese drama combined with music and dance, it is the type of theatre in Japan(Played buy all male actors) | 11 | |
| 822417861 | Ivan III the Great | The prince that made Moscow the new capital of Russia, and he overthrew the Mongols that were dominating Russia. | 12 | |
| 2165414532 | Ivan IV the Terrible | Confirmed power of tsarist autocracy by attacking the authority of the boyars; continued policy of expansion; established contacts with western European commerce and culture. | 13 | |
| 2165415962 | cossacks | peasants recruited to migrate to newly seized lands in Russia, particularly in south; combined agriculture with military conquests; spurred additional frontier conquests and settlements. | 14 | |
| 2165415963 | Time of Troubles | 1604-1613, During which the Russian nobles elected series of tsars a tried to demand their liberties. Contending factions and civil war. Finally in 1613 national assembly elected a 17 year old boy as tsar - start of Romanov dynasty. | 15 | |
| 2165421906 | Romanov Dynasty | Dynasty that favored the nobles, reduced military obligations, expanded the Russian empire further east, and fought several unsuccessful wars, yet they lasted from 1613 to 1917. | 16 | |
| 2165423001 | Alexis Romanov | Second Romanov tsar; abolished assemblies of nobles; gained new powers over Russian Orthodox church. | 17 | |
| 2165424502 | Old Believers | Russians who refused to accept the ecclesiastical reforms of Alexis Romanov (17th century); many exiled to Siberia or southern Russia, where they became part of Russian colonization. | 18 | |
| 2165425812 | Peter I the Great | 1725; begins selective westernization and expansion of Russia, seeks warm water port, built St. Petersburg ("window to the west") | 19 | |
| 2165431846 | Catherine II the Great | Russian Czar from 1762-1796. Was an Enlightened Absolutist, but came to power when spouse was murdered. This Czar supressed the serfs and gave power to the aristocracy. Her boyfriends would become prime ministers. Expanded mostly West and South, and Westernized in literature, philosophy, and art. | 20 | |
| 2165434480 | Pugachev Rebellion | During 1770's in reign of Catherine the Great; led by cossack Emelian Pugachev, who claimed to be legitimate tsar; eventually crushed; typical of peasant unrest during the 18th century and thereafter | 21 | |
| 2165436815 | Partition of Poland | 22 |
