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| 8590826493 | Allah | Muslim God | 0 | |
| 8590839512 | astrolabe | an instrument used to plan a course, using the stars | 1 | |
| 8590912407 | battle of tours | 732 AD Christians defeat Muslim invaders and stop the spread of Islam into Europe | 2 | |
| 8590955060 | caliph | successor to Muhammad as political and religious leader of the Muslims | 3 | |
| 8590974639 | five pillars | beliefs that all Muslims needed to carry out: Faith, Prayer, Alms, Fasting, and Pilgrimage | 4 | |
| 8591009891 | Mosque | a building for Muslim prayer (Muslim church) | 5 | |
| 8591039827 | Quran | The holy book of Islam | 6 | |
| 8591065319 | shi'ite | A member of the branch of Islam that supports the descendants of Muhammad as his rightful successors | 7 | |
| 8591097796 | shia | Muslims who thought that only Muhammad's descendants could become caliphs (wanted his son in law, Ali, to be it) | 8 | |
| 8591193741 | abacus | An instrument used to perform calculations by sliding rings or beads along rods inside a frame. |  | 9 |
| 8591263291 | daimyo | powerful Japanese feudal lords, owed lots of land | 10 | |
| 8591344960 | flying money | Paper currency developed by the Song dynasty | 11 | |
| 8591376564 | foot binding | Chinese practice of tightly wrapping girls' feet to keep them small (started in the Tang dynasty) | 12 | |
| 8591414386 | grand canal | 1100 mile canal made by Sui to link yellow river to Yanzi. key to transportation network | 13 | |
| 8591467056 | gempei wars | fconflict between the taira & minamoto clan in japan | 14 | |
| 8592122167 | junks | large Chinese trading ships | 15 | |
| 8592148330 | neo confucianism | A philosophy that blended Confucianism with Buddhism and Daoism | 16 | |
| 8592169610 | samurai | a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy | 17 | |
| 8592196728 | serf | A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord (slave) | 18 | |
| 8592214309 | shinto | principal religion in Japan that emphasizes the worship of nature | 19 | |
| 8592240349 | shogun | the head of the military government of Japan in the era of the samurai | 20 | |
| 8592660555 | shogunate | military government of Japan | 21 | |
| 8592265897 | chivalry | code of conduct for knights | 22 | |
| 8592273801 | excommunication | Banishment from the church | 23 | |
| 8592283711 | feudalism | political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords and vassals | 24 | |
| 8592301518 | magna carta | document signed in 1215 that limited the power of the king | 25 | |
| 8592325947 | medeival | middle ages in Europe | 26 | |
| 8592348877 | parliament | A body of representatives that makes laws for a nation | 27 | |
| 8592367530 | austronesian | the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia | 28 | |
| 8592383285 | black death | A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351 | 29 | |
| 8592390607 | caravel | a light, fast sailing ship | 30 | |
| 8592402169 | hanseatic league | was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns | 31 | |
| 8592416261 | kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots | 32 | |
| 8592421768 | khan | Title given to Mongol leaders, meaning "supreme ruler" | 33 | |
| 8592488184 | lateen sail | triangle-shaped sails perfected by Arab traders whose design allowed ships to sail against the wind | 34 | |
| 8592512496 | maori | A member of a Polynesian group that settled New Zealand about 800 C.E. | 35 | |
| 8592531091 | ming dynasty | the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 | 36 | |
| 8592602341 | middle kingdom | refers to china because the people believed that their land stood between heaven and earth | 37 | |
| 8592613030 | mongol peace | Period of stability and law and order across Eurasia under Mongol rule | 38 | |
| 8592617587 | renaissance | the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world | 39 | |
| 8592625129 | yuan dynasty | Chinese dynasty ruled by the Mongols from 1279 to 1368; best known ruler was Kublai Khan | 40 | |
| 8592630293 | anasazi | Early Native American people who lived in the Southwest lived in cliffs | 41 | |
| 8592636663 | ayllus | Incan clan that worked together on projects required by the ruler | 42 | |
| 8592651097 | chinampas | floating gardens built by the Aztecs | 43 | |
| 8592665075 | inca | a member of a South American Indian people living in the central Andes before the Spanish conquest. | 44 | |
| 8592669434 | mexica | what the aztecs called themselves | 45 | |
| 8592671816 | mita | labor tax system used by the Incas | 46 | |
| 8592681057 | Mississippians | Mound Builders who built the first cities in North America | 47 | |
| 8592687601 | quipus | knotted strings used by Incan officials for keeping records | 48 | |
| 8592689858 | toltecs | Central American society (950-1150) that was centered around the city of Tula. | 49 |
