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| 5942787739 | An outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, carrying off vast numbers of persons. | Black Death | 0 | |
| 5942787740 | "the way of the warrior"; Japanese word for the Samurai life ; Samurai moral code was based on loyalty, chivalry, martial arts, and honor until the death | bushido | 1 | |
| 5942787741 | Office established in succession to the Prophet Muhammad, to rule the Islamic empire; also the name of that empire. | caliphate | 2 | |
| 5942787742 | Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields. | chinampa | 3 | |
| 5942787743 | Code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages | chivalry | 4 | |
| 5942787744 | Christian-dominated Western Europe of the Middle Ages | christendom | 5 | |
| 5942787745 | In China, it was an exam based on Confucian teachings that was used to select people for various government service jobs in the bureaucracy. | civil service exam | 6 | |
| 5942787746 | (1095-1204) Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation. | Crusades | 7 | |
| 5942787747 | an Arabic term that means the "house of Islam" and that refers to lands under Islamic rule | Dar al-Islam | 8 | |
| 5942787748 | influenc of greek and indian mathematics on muslim scholars, spread of printing and gunpowder technologies from east asia into the islamic empires and western europe | diffusion of scientific and technological traditions | 9 | |
| 5942787749 | Big commercial center for importing and exporting commodities. | entrepot | 10 | |
| 5942787750 | A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to a king in return for loyalty and military service | fuedalism | 11 | |
| 5942787751 | In medieval Europe, land granted in return for a sworn oath to provide specified military service. | fiefs | 12 | |
| 5942787752 | In China, the class of prosperous families, next in wealth below the rural aristocrats, from which the emperors drew their administrative personnel. Respected for their education and expertise, these officials became a privileged group and made the government more efficient and responsive than in the past. The term gentry also denotes the class of landholding families in England below the aristocracy. | gentry | 13 | |
| 5942787753 | 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. | Grand Canal (China) | 14 | |
| 5942787754 | The period in Chinese history (403-221 BCE) in which many different states emerged and were fighting for control of China. | Period of Warring States | 15 | |
| 5942787755 | Professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings within the Mali Empire | Griots | 16 | |
| 5942787756 | In medieval Europe, an association of men (rarely women), such as merchants, artisans, or professors, who worked in a particular trade and banded together to promote their economic and political interests. ____ were also important in other societies, such as the Ottoman and Safavid Empires. | guilds | 17 | |
| 5942787757 | A pilgrimage to Mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims | hajj | 18 | |
| 5942787758 | An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century. | Hanseatic League | 19 | |
| 5942787759 | A Mongol ruler | Khan | 20 | |
| 5942787760 | to kneel, touch the head to the ground in expression of deep respect worship or submission | kow tow | 21 | |
| 5942787761 | A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable. | Little Ice Age | 22 | |
| 5942787762 | In medieval Europe, a large, self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence, outbuildings, peasant village, and surrounding land. | manorialism | 23 | |
| 5942787763 | Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations. | mit'a | 24 | |
| 5942787764 | Term used to describe new approaches to understanding classic Confucian texts that became the basic ruling philosophy of China from the Song period to the twentieth century. | Neoconfucianism | 25 | |
| 5942787765 | A high-ranking social class | nobility/daimyo/zamindars | 26 | |
| 5942787766 | The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, of which the pope is the head. | papacy | 27 | |
| 5942787767 | An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information. | quipu | 28 | |
| 5942787768 | Class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land. | samurai | 29 | |
| 5942787769 | In medieval Europe, an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. | serfs | 30 | |
| 5942787770 | A body of law governing the lives of Muslims | shari'a | 31 | |
| 5942787771 | Muslims belonging to the branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. Shi'ism is the state religion of Iran. | Shi'ite | 32 | |
| 5942787772 | Developments that were first made in Southern Asia and then spread to other places through trade and conquest | southernization | 33 | |
| 5942787773 | A Muslim who seeks to achieve direct contact with God through mystical means | sufi | 34 | |
| 5942787774 | Military and political leader with absolute authority over a Muslim country | sultan | 35 | |
| 5942787775 | Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries. | Sunni | 36 | |
| 5942787776 | East African shores of the Indian Ocean between the Horn of Africa and the Zambezi River; from the Arabic sawahil, meaning 'shores.' | Swahili Coast | 37 | |
| 5942787777 | A government's use of private collectors to collect taxes. Individuals or corporations contract with the government to collect a fixed amount for the government and are permitted to keep as profit everything they collect over that amount. | tax farming | 38 | |
| 5942787778 | Farming method also called steep farming. | terraces | 39 | |
| 5942787779 | made by bringing together different elements | synthesized | 40 | |
| 5942787780 | A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food, cloth, and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies. | tributary system | 41 | |
| 5942787781 | Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward, the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. | ulama | 42 |
