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| 5627540655 | Mercantile | Related to commerce or trade | 0 | |
| 5627540656 | Conduits | A channel for conveying cultural diffusion between socieities | 1 | |
| 5627540657 | Pastoral Groups | Nomadic groups that domesticated animals and sustained trade networks | 2 | |
| 5627540658 | Interregional | Movement from one region of a country to another | 3 | |
| 5627540659 | Muhammad | Founder of Islam | 4 | |
| 5627540660 | Diffusion | Movement of culture or cultural ideas from one area to another | 5 | |
| 5627540661 | Silk Roads | A system of ancient caravan routes across Central Asia, along which traders carried luxury goods. | 6 | |
| 5627540662 | Mediterranean Sea Lanes | Trade routes that connected Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa | 7 | |
| 5627540663 | Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | Trade route stretching across the Sahara, predominantly involving the trade of gold and salt | 8 | |
| 5627540664 | Indian Ocean Sea Lanes | Lanes throughout the Indian Ocean connecting East Africa, southern Arabia, the Persian Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, and southern China. Also called Monsoon Marketplace | 9 | |
| 5627540665 | Swahili City-States | City-states along the coast of Eastern Africa | 10 | |
| 5627540666 | Venice | Important Italian port for trade | 11 | |
| 5627540667 | Tenochtitlan | Mexican city, capital of the Aztec Empire | 12 | |
| 5627540668 | Mesoamerica | "Middle America" the region extending from modern-day Mexico through Central America | 13 | |
| 5627540669 | Caravanserai | System of rest stops caravans used for supplies and safety | 14 | |
| 5627540670 | Compass | Directional tool developed by the Han Dynasty in East Asia | 15 | |
| 5627540671 | Astrolabe | An instrument used to determine location by observing the position of the stars and planets. Often used by sailors. | 16 | |
| 5627540672 | Credit | The ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future. | 17 | |
| 5627540673 | Monetization | Establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country | 18 | |
| 5627540674 | Bills of Exchange | Certificate saying you'll pay back a certain amount by a particular date | 19 | |
| 5627540675 | Banking House | These European innovations developed during the Middle Ages to aid trade and manage credit, checks, and bills of exchange. | 20 | |
| 5627540676 | Hanseatic League | An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century. | 21 | |
| 5627540677 | Infrastructure | The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. | 22 | |
| 5627540678 | Grand Canal | The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire. | 23 | |
| 5627540679 | Byzantine Empire | The eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived after the fall of the Western Empire at the end of the 5th century C.E. Its capital was Constantinople, named after the Emperor Constantine. | 24 | |
| 5627540680 | Caliphates | The political-religious state comprising the Muslim community and the lands and the peoples under its dominion during the centuries after Muhammad's death. | 25 | |
| 5627540681 | Mongols | People from Central Asia when united ended up creating the largest single land empire in history. | 26 | |
| 5627540682 | Linguistic | Pertaining to language | 27 | |
| 5627540683 | Longships | Narrow boats used by Vikings that allowed them to sail down thin rivers and channels, and pillage inland villages | 28 | |
| 5627540684 | Vikings | Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia | 29 | |
| 5627540685 | Arabs | Ethnic group native to the Middle East | 30 | |
| 5627540686 | Berbers | Enthic group indigenous to North Africa, primarily Muslim living in settled or nomadic tribes from Morocco to Egypt | 31 | |
| 5627540687 | Steppe | A dry, grassy, treeless plain found in Asia and Eastern Europe. | 32 | |
| 5627540688 | Bantu | The people who spread throughout Africa (mostly Central and South) spreading agriculture, language, and iron. | 33 | |
| 5627540689 | Maritime | Relating to the sea | 34 | |
| 5627540690 | Polynesian | Describing islanders in the Pacific Ocean-- language, culture, people | 35 | |
| 5627540691 | Islam | A monotheistic religion based on the belief that there is one God, Allah, and that Muhammad was Allah's prophet. | 36 | |
| 5627540692 | Arabian Peninsula | Area of the Middle East that is the birthplace of Islam and home of the Arabs | 37 | |
| 5627540693 | Merchant | A person who makes money by selling goods | 38 | |
| 5627540694 | Missionary | An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion by converting other people. | 39 | |
| 5627540695 | Diasporic Communities | Migrants who have relocated from their ancestral homelands and retain their distinct cultural identities as ethnic minority groups in their new host countries (e.g Jewish/Hebrew peoples). | 40 | |
| 5627540696 | Sogdian | An Iranian people (Indo-European). Between the fourth and ninth centuries they were probably the most important merchants along the Silk Roads | 41 | |
| 5627540697 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. | 42 | |
| 5627540698 | Marco Polo | Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade. | 43 | |
| 5627540699 | Xuanzang | A famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator who described the interaction between China and India in the early Tang period. He became famous for his 17 year trip to India and back. | 44 | |
| 5627540700 | Neoconfucianism | Neo (or new) Confucianism developed both as a renaissance of traditional Confucian ideas, and as a reaction to the ideas of Buddhism and Daoism | 45 | |
| 5627540701 | Mexica | Indigenous peoples to northern Mesoamerica | 46 | |
| 5627540702 | Toltec | Nomadic peoples from beyond the northern frontier of sedentary agriculture in Mesoamerica; established capital at Tula after migration into central Mesoamerican plateau; strongly militaristic ethic, including cult of human sacrifice. | 47 | |
| 5627540703 | Iberia | Peninsula in southwestern Europe occupied by modern day Spain and Portugal | 48 | |
| 5627540704 | al-Andalus | Islamic Spain | 49 | |
| 5627540705 | Pathogen | An organism that causes disease | 50 | |
| 5627540706 | Epidemic Disease | Many people acquire the disease in a particular location | 51 | |
| 5627540707 | Bubonic Plague | Yersinia pestis carried by fleas. Disease brought to Europe via trade (from the Mongols) during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helped end feudalism. | 52 | |
| 5627540708 | Dar al-Islam | A term used by Muslim scholars to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely | 53 | |
| 5627540709 | Agrarian | Concerning farms, farmers, or the use of land | 54 | |
| 5627540710 | Legitimacy | Acceptance of a ruler or government by the people. | 55 | |
| 5627540711 | Tributary System | A system in which areas not directly controlled by an empire give gifts or taxes in exchange for peace. | 56 | |
| 5627540712 | Khanates | Four regional Mongol kingdoms that arose following the death of Genghis/ Chinggis Khan. | 57 | |
| 5627540713 | Feudalism | A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land | 58 | |
| 5627540714 | Abbasids | A dynasty that ruled much of the Muslim Empire from 750 to about 1250. | 59 | |
| 5627540715 | Sultanate | Land ruled by a sultan | 60 | |
| 5627540716 | Crusades | A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 CE undertaken by European Christians to "take back" the Holy Land from Muslim rule. | 61 | |
| 5627540717 | Zheng He | An imperial eunuch, explorer, and Muslim, during the Ming Dynasty. Took gigantic ships and massive fleets through the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, and Africa. | 62 | |
| 5627540718 | Urbanization | An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements. | 63 | |
| 5627540719 | Demographic | Characteristics such as age, sex, income, location, education, and religion | 64 | |
| 5627540720 | Coerced Labor | When people are forced to work either as slaves or serfs. | 65 | |
| 5627540721 | Chinampa | Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields. | 66 | |
| 5627540722 | Waru waru | An Incan agricultural technique in which water creates a channel around growing crops | 67 | |
| 5627540723 | Terracing | Creating flat platforms in hillside that provide a level planting surface, which reduces soil runoff from the slope. | 68 | |
| 5627540724 | Textiles | Cloth items | 69 | |
| 5627540725 | Porcelain | A thin, beautiful pottery invented in China | 70 | |
| 5627540726 | Guild | A medieval organization of crafts workers or trades people. | 71 | |
| 5627540727 | Serfdom | A type of labor commonly used in feudal systems in which the laborers work the land in return for protection but they are bound to the land and are not allowed to leave or to peruse their a new occupation. This was common in early Medeival Europe as well as in Russia and Japan until the mid 19th century. | 72 | |
| 5627540728 | Mit'a | Labor tax system used by the Incas | 73 | |
| 5627540729 | Foot Binding | Practice in Chinese society to alter women's feet in order to make them smaller ("more beautiful"); produced pain and restricted women's movement. | 74 | |
| 5637620580 | Luxury goods | Silk, cotton, porcelain, spices, precious metals, gems, etc. | 75 |
