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| 5489285528 | Silk Roads | -Land-based trade routes (PLURAL) that linked Eurasia -Began as linking China & Central Asia -new Merchant communities introduced -Contributed to spread of Bubonic Plague -Spread of Buddhism (especially in China) | 0 | |
| 5489285532 | Black Death | The name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century CE; it may have been bubonic plague, anthrax, or a collection of epidemic diseases. | 1 | |
| 5489285529 | Indian Ocean Trade network | The world's largest sea-based system of communication and exchange before 1500 CE, Indian Ocean commerce stretched from southern China to eastern Africa and included not only the exchange of luxury and bulk goods but also the exchange of ideas and crops. -Carried larger cargo than the Silk Road | 2 | |
| 5489285539 | Srivijaya | A Malay kingdom that dominated the Straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 CE; noted for its creation of a native/Indian hybrid culture. | 3 | |
| 5489285531 | Angkor Wat | The largest religious structure in the premodern world, construction began on this temple located in modern Cambodia in the early 1100s CE. It was built to express a Hindu understanding of the cosmos, centered on a mythical Mt Meru, the home of the gods in Hindu tradition. | 4 | |
| 5489285540 | Swahili civilization | An East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century CE from a blending of Bantu, Islamic, and other Indian Ocean trade elements. | 5 | |
| 5489285535 | Great Zimbabwe | A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast; flourished between 1250 and 1350 CE. | 6 | |
| 5489285538 | Sand Roads | A term used to describe the routes of the trans-Sahara trade in Africa | 7 | |
| 5489290768 | Arabian camel | An important way of transportation on the Sand and Silk roads for thousands of years | 8 | |
| 5489285534 | Ghana, Mali, Songhay | A series of important states that developed in western and central Sudan in the period 500-1600 CE in response to the economic opportunities of trans-Saharan trade (especially control of gold production). | 9 | |
| 5489285541 | trans-Saharan slave trade | A fairly small-scale trade that developed in the 12th century CE, exporting West African slaves captured in raids across the Sahara for sale mostly as household servants. | 10 | |
| 5489285530 | American web | A term used to describe the network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas; although less intense and complete than the Afro-Eurasian trade networks, this web nonetheless provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas. | 11 | |
| 5489285536 | Thorfinn Karlsfeni | A well-born, wealthy merchant and seaman of Norwegian Viking background, Karlsfeni led an unsuccessful expedition to establish a colony on the coast of what is now Newfoundland, Canada, in the early 11th century CE. | 12 | |
| 5489285537 | pochteca | Professional merchants among the Aztecs | 13 |
