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4916089302MercantileRelated to commerce or trade0
4916096958Conduitsa channel for conveying cultural diffusion between socieities1
4916113661Pastoral GroupsNomadic groups that domesticated animals and sustained trade networks2
4916121692Interregionalmovement from one region of a country to another3
4916125682MuhammadFounder of Islam4
4916127747DiffusionMovement of culture from one area to another5
4916129489Silk RoadsA system of ancient caravan routes across Central Asia, along which traders carried luxury goods.6
4916134972Mediterranean Sea LanesTrade routes that connected Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa7
4916141346Trans-Saharan Trade Routestrade route stretching across the sahara, predominantly involve trade of gold and salt8
4916144045Indian Ocean Sea Laneslanes throughout the Indian Ocean connecting East Africa, southern Arabia, the Persian Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, and southern China9
4916148654Swahili City-StatesCity-states along the coast of Eastern Africa10
4916152589Veniceimportant Italian port for trade11
4916154140TenochtitlanMexica city, capital of the Aztec Empire12
4916167652Mesoamerica"Middle America" the region extending from modern-day Mexico through Central America13
4916170604Caravanseraisystem of rest stops caravans used for supplies and safety14
4916172748CompassDirectional tool developed by the Han Dynasty in East Asia15
4916179602AstrolabeAn instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets16
4916181314Creditthe ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future.17
4916183313Monetizationestablishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country18
4916187826Bills of ExchangeCertificate saying you'll pay back a certain amount by a particular date19
4916190365Banking HouseThese European innovations developed during the Middle Ages to aid trade and manage credit, checks, and bills of exchange.20
4916206030Hanseatic LeagueAn economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.21
4916208895Infrastructurethe basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.22
4916212133Grand CanalThe 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
4916215142Byzantine EmpireThe 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
4916217715CaliphatesThe political-religious state comprising the Muslim community and the lands and the peoples under its dominion during the centuries after Muhammad's death.25
4916223831MongolsPeople from Central Asia when united ended up creating the largest single land empire in history.26
4916227499Linguisticpertaining to language27
4916229425LongshipsNarrow boats that allowed the vikings to sail down thin rivers, and pillage inland villages28
4916231379VikingsInvaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia29
4916231380ArabsEthnic group native to the Middle East30
4916240078BerbersA member of a North African, primarily Muslim people living in settled or nomadic tribes from Morocco to Egypt31
4916242292SteppeA dry, grassy, treeless plain found in Asia and eastern Europe.32
4916244526BantuThe people who spread throughout Africa spreading agriculture, language, and iron.33
4916246710Maritimerelating to the sea34
4916248456Polynesiananything dealing with island in pacific-- language,culture,people35
4916252160IslamA monotheistic religion based on the belief that there is one God, Allah, and that Muhammad was Allah's prophet.36
4916256533Arabian PeninsulaArea of the middle east that is the birthplace of Islam and home of the Arabs37
4916264640MerchantA person who makes money by selling goods38
4916269194MissionaryAn individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion.39
4916272293Diasporic Communitiesimmigrants who have relocated from their ancestral homelands and retain their distinct cultural identities as ethnic minority groups in their new host countries40
4916276767SogdianAn Iranian People from central Asia. Between the fourth and ninth centuries they were probably the most important merchants along the Silk Roads41
4916279752Ibn BattutaMoroccan 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
4916279753Marco PoloVenetian 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
4916282101XuanzangA 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
4916286579NeoconfucianismNeo-Confucianism developed both as a renaissance of traditional Confucian ideas, and as a reaction to the ideas of Buddhism and Daoism45
4916290290MexicaIndigenous peoples to northern Mesoamerica46
4916298268ToltecNomadic 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
4916305171IberiaPeninsula in southwestern Europe occupied by Spain and Portugal48
4916307899al-AndalusIslamic Spain49
4916307915PathogenAn organism that causes disease50
4916309874Epidemic DiseaseMany people acquire the disease in a particular location51
4916312708Bubonic Plaguedisease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism. Rats, fleas.52
4916316913Dar al-Islama term used by Muslim scholars to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely53
4916321008Agrarianconcerning farms, farmers, or the use of land54
4916328662LegitimacyAcceptance of a ruler or government by the people.55
4916333733Tributary SystemA system in which areas not directly controlled by an empire give gifts or taxes in exchange for peace.56
4916341945KhanatesFour regional Mongol kingdoms that arose following the death of Chinggis Khan.57
4916344221FeudalismA 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 land58
4916345684AbbasidsA dynasty that ruled much of the Muslim Empire from 750 to about 1250.59
4916348200SultanateLand ruled by a sultan60
4916353180CrusadesA series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule.61
4916354729Zheng HeAn imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.62
4916357457UrbanizationAn increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.63
4916359836DemographicCharacteristics such as age, sex, income, location, education, and religion64
4916365976Coerced LaborWhen people are forced to work either as slaves or serfs.65
4916368162ChinampaRaised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.66
4916368163Waru waruAn Incan agricultural technique in which water creates a channel around growing crops67
4916372018Terracingcreating flat platforms in the hillside that provide a level planting surface, which reduces soil runoff from the slope.68
4916373629Textilescloth items69
4916375354Porcelaina thin, beautiful pottery invented in China70
4916386017GuildA medieval organization of crafts workers or trades people.71
4916390120SerfdomA 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 until the mid 19th century.72
4916392693Mit'alabor tax system used by the Incas73
4916397267Foot BindingPractice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household.74

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