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| 2553380836 | Iberian | peninsula consisting of Spain and Portugal | 0 | |
| 2553381245 | Innoculation | injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help build up defense to disease | 1 | |
| 2553382905 | Laity | religious group apart from its clergy | 2 | |
| 2553384154 | Peloponnesian | war lasting from 431 to 404 B.C. in which athens and its allies were defeated by the Spartans | 3 | |
| 2553384541 | Piety | reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations | 4 | |
| 2553384886 | Proliferation | a rapid spread or increase | 5 | |
| 2553386095 | Secular | Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters | 6 | |
| 2553386789 | Sovereignty | ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states | 7 | |
| 2553389908 | Theocracy | Government by religious leaders, who claim divine guidance. | 8 | |
| 2553392448 | Vernacular | the everyday speech of a particular country or region, often involving nonstandard usage | 9 | |
| 2553392941 | Xenophobia | fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers | 10 | |
| 2553396280 | Byzantine Empire | (330-1453) 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. | 11 | |
| 2553397107 | Timbuktu | Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and learning | 12 | |
| 2553398517 | Incan Empire | A Mesoamerican civilization in the Andes Mountains in South America that by the end of the 1400s was the largest empire in the Americas including much of what is now Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile; conquered by Pizarro. | 13 | |
| 2553400938 | Aztec Empire | Central American empire constructed by the Mexica and expanded greatly during the fifteenth century during the reigns of Itzcoatl and Motecuzoma I. Conquered by Cortes. | 14 | |
| 2553401623 | Teotihuacan | "The Place of the Gods"; first planned city in the Americas in the Valley of Mexico. | 15 | |
| 2553422330 | Toltec | Central American society (950-1150) that was centered around the city of Tula. | 16 | |
| 2553423097 | Mixtec | Term adopted from Spanish "Mixtecos," based on the original Nahuatl designation for the culture group of Oaxaca who call themselves "Nudzahui" | 17 | |
| 2553424661 | Zapotec | A people developing in Oaxaca Valley, which supported agriculture. Began as scattered villages, but the city centers San Jose Mogote and Monte Alban emerged.They developed writing and a calendar, and were influenced by the Olmec. The reason for their fall remains unknown. | 18 | |
| 2553425572 | Cahokia | A commercial center for regional and long-distance trade in North America. Its hinterlands produced staples for urban consumers. In return, its crafts were exported inland by porters and to North American markets in canoes. | 19 | |
| 2553425998 | Mississippian Culture | Last of the mound-building cultures of North America; flourished between 800 and 1300 C.E.; featured large towns and ceremonial centers; lacked stone architecture of Central America. | 20 | |
| 2553427542 | al-Andalus | A Muslim-ruled region in what is now Spain, established by the Berbers in the eighth century CE. | 21 | |
| 2553427896 | Caliphate | Office established in succession to the Prophet Muhammad, to rule the Islamic empire; also the name of that empire | 22 | |
| 2553440190 | Italian City-States | Venice, Milan, Florence, Papal States, Naples. | 23 | |
| 2553440813 | Novgorod | Russia's first important city. | 24 | |
| 2553441756 | Calicut | A city of southwest India on the Malabar Coast southwest of Bangalore. It was the site of Vasco da Gama's first landfall in India (1498) and was later occupied by Portuguese, British, French, and Danish trading colonies. | 25 | |
| 2553442809 | Srivijaya | A state based on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, between the seventh and eleventh centuries C.E. It amassed wealth and power by a combination of selective adaptation of Indian technologies and concepts, and control of trade routes. | 26 | |
| 2553443483 | Strait of Malacca | Narrow waterway located between the islands of Sumatra and Java, Body of water connecting the Indian and Pacific Ocean near Singapore. | 27 | |
| 2553449313 | Malacca | City on the tip of the Malayan peninsula; a center for trade to the southeastern Asian islands; became a major Portuguese trading base. | 28 | |
| 2553450160 | Hangzhou | Capital of later Song dynasty; located near East China Sea; permitted overseas trading; population exceeded 1 million. | 29 | |
| 2553451268 | Yap | An island in Oceania that became a trading hub. | 30 | |
| 2553452691 | Sui Dynasty | (589-618 CE) The Chinese dynasty that was like the Qin Dynasty in imposing tight political discipline; this dynasty built the Grand Canal which helped transport the rice in the south to the north. | 31 | |
| 2553453026 | Tang Dynasty | (618-907 CE) The Chinese dynasty that was much like the Han, who used Confucianism. This dynasty had the equal-field system, a bureaucracy based on merit, and a Confucian education system. | 32 | |
| 2553453027 | Song Dynasty | (960 - 1279 CE); this dynasty was started by Tai Zu; by 1000, a million people were living there; started feet binding; had a magnetic compass; had a navy; traded with india and persia (brought pepper and cotton); first to have paper money, explosive gun powder; *landscape black and white paintings | 33 | |
| 2553453585 | Yuan Dynasty | (1279-1368 CE) The dynasty with Mongol rule in China; centralized with bureaucracy but structure is different: Mongols on top->Persian bureaucrats->Chinese bureuacrats | 34 | |
| 2553453586 | Ming Dynasty | Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China. | 35 | |
| 2553455344 | Grand Canal | 1,100 mile waterway connecting the Yellow and Yangzi Rivers, completed under Sui. | 36 | |
| 2553456642 | Mongol Empire | An empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, which reached its greatest territorial extent in the 13th century, encompassing the larger part of Asia and extending westward to the Dnieper River in eastern Europe. | 37 | |
| 2553458089 | Temujin | Genghis Khan's real name. | 38 | |
| 2553458719 | Caravanserai | Inn or rest station for caravans, would provide a safe place to stay the night, supported the flow of commerce, information, and people across the network of Africa, Arabia and Asia. | 39 | |
| 2553460652 | Astrolabe | An instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets. | 40 | |
| 2553461486 | Dhow | Arab sailing vessels with triangular or lateen sails; strongly influenced European ship design. | 41 | |
| 2553461751 | Longboat | A boat with a shallow bow and a trademark dragon or scary face on the tip of the ship that was used by the Vikings | 42 | |
| 2553462273 | Chinese Junk | A very large flat-bottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires, specially designed for long-distance commercial travel. | 43 | |
| 2553463535 | Polynesians | inhabitants of the Pacific Islands that lie within a triangle formed by Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island. | 44 | |
| 2553465260 | Ibn Battuta | 1304-1369 Morrocan 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. His writings gave a glimpse into the world of that time period. | 45 | |
| 2553466273 | Dreamtime | A complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people that held that current humans live in a vibration or echo of ancestral happenings | 46 | |
| 2553467072 | Mit'a | Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations. | 47 | |
| 2553468154 | 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 until the mid 19th century. | 48 | |
| 2553469029 | Ulaanbataar | Capital of Mongolia built by Genghis Khan. | 49 |
