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| 8461239431 | abacus | an ancient Chinese counting device that used rods on which were mounted movable counters | 0 | |
| 8461239432 | age grade | age groups into which children were placed in Bantu societies of early sub-Saharan Africa; children within the age grade were given responsibilities and privileges suitable for their age and in this manner were prepared for adult responsibilities | 1 | |
| 8461239433 | Allah | the god for Muslims; Arabic word for "god" | 2 | |
| 8461239434 | Anasazi | the name given to the pueblo dwelling natives in the South-west and North American continent | 3 | |
| 8461239435 | arabsque | artwork first seen in Muslim lands; a type of curvilinear decoration in painting, metalwork, etc., with intricate intertwining leaf, flower, animal, or geometrical designs | 4 | |
| 8461239436 | astrolabe | a navigational instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars | 5 | |
| 8461239437 | Austronesian | a branch of languages originating in Oceania | 6 | |
| 8461239438 | ayllus | in Incan society, a clan or community that worked together on projects required by the ruler | 7 | |
| 8461239439 | bakufu | a military government established in Japan after the Gempei Wars; the emperor became a figurehead while real power was concentrated in the military, including the samurai | 8 | |
| 8461239440 | Bantu-speaking peoples | name given to the group of sub-Saharan African peoples who's migrations altered the society of sub-Saharan Africa | 9 | |
| 8461239441 | Battle of Tours | the 732 battle that haltered the advance of Muslim armies into Europe at a point in northern France | 10 | |
| 8461239442 | benefice | in medieval Europe, a grant of land or other privilege to a vassal | 11 | |
| 8461239443 | Black Death | the European name for the outbreak of the Bubonic Plague that spread across Asia, Europe, and North Africa in the Fourteenth century | 12 | |
| 8461239444 | Bushi | regional military leaders in Japan who ruled small kingdoms from fortresses | 13 | |
| 8461239445 | Bushido | the code of honor of the samurai in Japan | 14 | |
| 8461239446 | Caliph | the chief Muslim political and religious leader | 15 | |
| 8461239447 | Calpulli | Aztec clans that supplied labor and warriors to leaders | 16 | |
| 8461239448 | caravel | a small, easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations | 17 | |
| 8461239449 | celadon | Chinese porcelain that has a pale, green, translucent glaze | 18 | |
| 8461239450 | Chimor | pre-Incan South American society that fell to the Incas in the Fifteenth century | 19 | |
| 8461239451 | chinampas | platforms of twisted vines and mud that served the Aztecs as floating gardens and extended their agricultural land | 20 | |
| 8461239452 | chivalry | a knight's code of honor in medieval Europe | 21 | |
| 8461239453 | Daimyo | a Japanese feudal lord in charge of an army of samurai | 22 | |
| 8461239454 | Dar al-Islam | The House of Islam; a term representing the political and religious unity of the various Islamic groups | 23 | |
| 8461239455 | excommunication | the practice of the Roman Catholic and other Christian churches of prohibiting participation in the sacraments to those who do not comply with the church teachings or practices | 24 | |
| 8461239456 | feudalism | a political, economic, and social system based on the relationship between lord and vassal in order to provide protection | 25 | |
| 8461239457 | fief | in medieval Europe, a grant of land given in exchange for military, or other services | 26 | |
| 8461239458 | Five Pillars | five practices required of Muslim; faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage | 27 | |
| 8461239459 | flying money | letters of credit issued in place of coins | 28 | |
| 8461239460 | foot binding | in China, a method of breaking and binding women's feet; seen as a sign of beauty and social position, foot binding also confined women to the household | 29 | |
| 8461239461 | Gempei wars | wars in Japan that pitted the samurai against the peasants | 30 | |
| 8461239462 | Gothic architecture | architecture of Twelfth century Europe, featuring stained-glass windows, flying buttresses, tall spires, and pointed arches | 31 | |
| 8461239463 | griots | storytellers of sub-Saharan Africa who carried on oral traditions and histories | 32 | |
| 8461239464 | Hadith | a collection of the sayings and deeds of Mohammed | 33 | |
| 8461239465 | Hajj | the pilgrimage to the Ka'aba in Mecca required once of every Muslim who was not limited by health or financial restrictions | 34 | |
| 8461239466 | harem | a household of wives and concubines in the Middle East, Africa, or Asia | 35 | |
| 8461239467 | Hijah | the flight of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina, the first year in the Muslim calendar | 36 | |
| 8461239468 | Inca | the ruler of the Quechua people of the west coast of South America; the term is also applied to the Quechua people as a whole | 37 | |
| 8461239469 | investiture | the authority claimed by monarchs to appoint church officials | 38 | |
| 8461239470 | Jihad | Islamic holy war | 39 | |
| 8461239471 | junks | large Chinese sailing ships especially designed for long-distance travel during the Tang and Song Dynasties | 40 | |
| 8461239472 | Ka'aba | a black stone or meteorite that became the most revered shrine in Arabia before the introduction of Islam; situated in Mecca, it later was incorporated in the Islamic faith | 41 | |
| 8461239473 | Kamikaze | the "divine wind" credited by the Japanese with preventing the Mongol invasion of Japan during the Thirteenth century | 42 | |
| 8461239474 | Khan | a Mongol ruler | 43 | |
| 8461239475 | kowtow | a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | 44 | |
| 8461239476 | lateen sails | a triangular sail attached to a short mast | 45 | |
| 8461239477 | Magna Carta | a document written in England in 1215 that granted certain rights to nobles; later these rights came to be extended to all classes | 46 | |
| 8461239478 | Malay sailors | Southeast Asian sailors who traveled the Indian Ocean; by 500 C.E., they had colonized Madagascar, introducing the cultivation of the banana | 47 | |
| 8461239479 | Mamluks | Turkic military slaves who formed part of the army of the Abbasid Caliphate in the Ninth and Tenth centuries; they founded their own state in Egypt and Syria from the Thirteenth to the early Sixteenth centuries | 48 | |
| 8461239480 | manorialism | a system of self-sufficient estates that arose in medieval Europe | 49 | |
| 8461239481 | Maori | a member of a Polynesian group that settled in New Zealand about 800 CE | 50 | |
| 8461239482 | medieval | pertaining to the Middle Ages of European history | 51 | |
| 8461239483 | metropolitan | the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church | 52 | |
| 8461239484 | Mexica | the name given to themselves by the Aztec people | 53 | |
| 8461239485 | Middle Ages | the period of European history traditionally given as 500 to 1500 | 54 | |
| 8461239486 | Middle Kingdom | term applied to the rich agricultural lands of the Yangtze River Valley under the Zhou Dynasty | 55 | |
| 8461239487 | minaret | a tower attached to a mosque from which Muslims are called to worship | 56 | |
| 8461239488 | Ming Dynasty | Chinese dynasty that was founded by the Mongolian ruler Kublai Khan | 57 | |
| 8461239489 | Mississippians | first society of people located in central North America | 58 | |
| 8461239490 | mita | a labor system used by Andean societies in which community member shared work owed to rules and the religious community | 59 | |
| 8461239491 | moldboard plow | the curved metal plate in a plow that turns over earth from the furrow | 60 | |
| 8461239492 | Mongol peace | the period from about 1250 to 1350 in which the Mongols ensured the safety of Eurasian trade and travel | 61 | |
| 8461239493 | mosque | the house of worship of followers of Islam | 62 | |
| 8461239494 | moundbuilders | the various American tribes who, in prehistoric and early historic times, erected the buria mounds and other earthworks of the Mississippi drainage basin and southeastern U.S. | 63 | |
| 8461239495 | Muslim | one who submits; a follower of Islam | 64 | |
| 8461239496 | Neo-Confucianism | a philosophy that blended Confucianism and Buddhist thought | 65 | |
| 8461239497 | parallel descent | in Incan society, descent through both the father and mother | 66 | |
| 8461239498 | parliament | a representative assembly, most notably in England | 67 | |
| 8461239499 | People of the Book | a term applied by Islamic governments to Muslims, Christians, and Jews in reference to the fact that all three religions had a holy book | 68 | |
| 8461239500 | perspective | an artistic technique commonly used in Renaissance painting that gave a three-dimensional appearance to works of art | 69 | |
| 8461239501 | Quechua | an Andean society also known as the Inca | 70 | |
| 8461239502 | Quipus | systems of knotted chords of different sizes and colors used by the Incas for keeping records | 71 | |
| 8461239503 | Quran | the holy book of Islam | 72 | |
| 8461239504 | Ramadan | the holy month of Islam which commemorates the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Muhammad; fasting is required during this month | 73 | |
| 8461239505 | Renaissance | the revival of learning in Europe beginning about 1300 and continuing to about 1600 | 74 | |
| 8461239506 | samurai | the military class of feudal Japan | 75 | |
| 8461239507 | scholar gentry | the Chinese class of well-educated men from who many bureaucrats were chosen | 76 | |
| 8461239508 | Seppuku | the Japanese practice of ritual suicide | 77 | |
| 8461239509 | serf | a peasant who is bound to the land he or she works | 78 | |
| 8461239510 | Shariah | the body of law that governs Muslim society | 79 | |
| 8461239511 | Shi'ite | the branch of Islam that holds that the leader of Islam must be a descendant of Muhammad's family | 80 | |
| 8461239512 | Shinto | the traditional Japanese religion based on veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature | 81 | |
| 8461239513 | shogun | military leader under the bakufu | 82 | |
| 8461239514 | shogunate | the rule of the shoguns | 83 | |
| 8461239515 | stateless society | a society that is based on the authority of kinship groups rather than on a central government | 84 | |
| 8461239516 | steppe diplomacy | the skill of political survival and dominance in the world of steppe nomads; it involved the knowledge of tribal and clan structure and often used assassinations to accomplish its goals | 85 | |
| 8461239517 | Sufis | Muslims who attempt to reach Allah through mysticism | 86 | |
| 8461239518 | sultan | an Islamic ruler | 87 | |
| 8461239519 | Sunni | the branch of Islam that believes that the Muslim community should select its leaders; the largest branch of Islam | 88 | |
| 8461239520 | syncretism | a blend of two or more cultures or cultural traditions | 89 | |
| 8461239521 | tea ceremony | an ancient Shinto ritual still performed in the traditional Japanese capital of Kyoto | 90 | |
| 8461239522 | Toltecs | Central American society that was centered around the city of Tula | 91 | |
| 8461239523 | tribute | the payment of a tax in the form of goods and labor by subject peoples | 92 | |
| 8461239524 | Umma | the community of Muslim believers | 93 | |
| 8461239525 | vassal | in medieval Europe, a person who pledged military or other service to a lord in exchange for a gift of land or other privilege | 94 | |
| 8461239526 | Yuan dynasty | Chinese dynasty that was founded by the Mongolian ruler Kublai Khan | 95 | |
| 8461239527 | Zakat | a tax, comprising percentages of personal income of every kind, levied as almsgiving for the relief of the poor; the third of the Pillars of Islam | 96 |
