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| 5308551900 | Aristocracy | The highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices | 0 | |
| 5308551901 | City-state | City that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state | 1 | |
| 5308551902 | Decentralized | Transfer authority from central to local government | 2 | |
| 5308551903 | Garrisons | The troops stationed in a fortress or town to defend it | 3 | |
| 5308551904 | Heretic | A person believing in or practicing religious heresy | 4 | |
| 5308551905 | Interaction | Reciprocal action or influence | 5 | |
| 5308551906 | Literate | Able to read and write | 6 | |
| 5308551907 | Meritocracy | Government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability | 7 | |
| 5308551908 | Mosque | Muslim place of worship | 8 | |
| 5308551909 | Patriarch | The male head of a family or tribe | 9 | |
| 5308551910 | Pilgrimage | A pilgrim's journey | 10 | |
| 5308551911 | Secluded | Not seen or visited by many people; sheltered and private | 11 | |
| 5308551912 | Theocracy | A system of government in which priests rule in the name of religious figures | 12 | |
| 5308551913 | Vassals | A subordinate holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance | 13 | |
| 5308551914 | Bureaucracy | A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives | 14 | |
| 5308551915 | Civil service | The permanent professional branches of a government's administration, excluding military and judicial branches and elected politicians | 15 | |
| 5308551916 | Dowry | property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage | 16 | |
| 5308551917 | Gothic | of or in the style of architecture prevalent in western Europe in the 12th-16th centuries, characterized by pointed arches, rib vaults, and flying buttresses, together with large windows and elaborate tracery | 17 | |
| 5308551918 | Hijab | a head covering worn in public by some Muslim women | 18 | |
| 5308551919 | Inquisition | an ecclesiastical tribunal established by Pope Gregory IX circa 1232 for the suppression of heresy. It was active chiefly in northern Italy and southern France, becoming notorious for the use of torture. In 1542 the papal Inquisition was re-established to combat Protestantism, eventually becoming an organ of papal government | 19 | |
| 5308551920 | Matriarch | a woman who is the head of a family or tribe | 20 | |
| 5308551921 | Middle Ages | the period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (5th century) to the fall of Constantinople (1453), or, more narrowly, from circa 1100 to 1453 | 21 | |
| 5308551922 | Muslim | a follower of the religion of Islam | 22 | |
| 5308551923 | Patriarchal | of, relating to, or characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men | 23 | |
| 5308551924 | Primogeniture | the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule by which the whole real estate of an intestate passed to the eldest son | 24 | |
| 5308551925 | Serfs | an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate | 25 | |
| 5308551926 | Trans-Continental | crossing a continent | 26 | |
| 5308551927 | Baghdad | Abbasid capital and culture center | 27 | |
| 5308551928 | Crusades | a medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries | 28 | |
| 5308551929 | Franks | a Germanic people that conquered Gaul in the 6th century and controlled much of western Europe for several centuries afterward | 29 | |
| 5308551930 | Hundred Years War | A war between France and England that lasted from the middle of the fourteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth. The kings of England invaded France, trying to claim the throne. | 30 | |
| 5308551931 | Mansa Musa | an emperor of the Mali Empire during the 14th century | 31 | |
| 5308551932 | Schism in Christianity | The great split of 1054 between the pope and patriarch of the respective roman catholic and eastern orthodox churches. | 32 | |
| 5308551933 | Timbuktu | Capital of the Mali empire | 33 | |
| 5308551934 | Caliph | The chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad | 34 | |
| 5308551935 | Credit | the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future | 35 | |
| 5308551936 | Eastern Orthodox | the Eastern churches that form a loose federation according primacy of honor to the patriarch of Constantinople and adhering to the decisions of the first seven ecumenical councils and to the Byzantine rite | 36 | |
| 5308551937 | Hajj | Islamic religious pilgrimage to mecca | 37 | |
| 5308551938 | Illegitimate | not authorized by the law; not in accordance with accepted standards or rules | 38 | |
| 5308551939 | Interrogation | the action of interrogating or the process of being interrogated | 39 | |
| 5308551940 | Matrilineal | of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line | 40 | |
| 5308551941 | Migration | movement from one part of something to another | 41 | |
| 5308551942 | Nation-State | a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent | 42 | |
| 5308551943 | Persecution | hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs | 43 | |
| 5308551944 | Roman Catholic | The branch of Christianity headed by the pope. The Roman Catholic Church is governed by a hierarchy with the pope at the top and, at the lower levels, bishops and priests | 44 | |
| 5308551945 | Submissive | ready to conform to the authority or will of others; meekly obedient or passive | 45 | |
| 5308551946 | Tribute systems | Giving goods or respect to a higher power to ensure trade and non-aggression | 46 | |
| 5308551947 | Black Death | an epidemic of bubonic plague in the eastern hemisphere that about halved the European population | 47 | |
| 5308551948 | Empress Wu | a Chinese sovereign who ruled unofficially as empress consort and empress dowager and later, officially as empress regnant during the brief Zhou dynasty | 48 | |
| 5308551949 | Charlemagne | A Frankish king who united most of Europe and became known as the Holy Roman Emperor | 49 | |
| 5308551950 | Indian Ocean Trade | Trade across the Indian ocean through East-West exchanges. in dhows and sailboats and connecting Africa and Asia. | 50 | |
| 5308551951 | Neo-Confucianism | a movement in religious philosophy from Confucianism around 1000, response to the ideas of Taoism and Buddhism, really intense Confucianism | 51 | |
| 5308551952 | Schism in Islam | Shia and Sunni Muslims disagreed about who would have the right to be a caliph after Muhammed's death | 52 | |
| 5308551953 | Tenochtitlan | The old capital of the Aztec empire | 53 | |
| 5308551954 | Chivalry | A feudalistic code of honor in Europe that was not really obeyed | 54 | |
| 5308551955 | Cultural diffusion | The spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another | 55 | |
| 5308551956 | Fiefs | an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service | 56 | |
| 5308551957 | Heresy | belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious doctrine | 57 | |
| 5308551958 | Infrastructure | the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise | 58 | |
| 5308551959 | Islam | the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah | 59 | |
| 5308551960 | Medieval | of or relating to the Middle Ages | 60 | |
| 5308551961 | Monetary system | the set of institutions by which a government provides money in a country's economy | 61 | |
| 5308551962 | Orthodox | Adhering to the accepted or traditional and established faith, especially in religion | 62 | |
| 5308551963 | Pilgrims | a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons | 63 | |
| 5308551964 | Schism | a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief | 64 | |
| 5308551965 | Subordinate | a person under the authority or control of another within an organization | 65 | |
| 5308551966 | Urbanization | becoming more like a city | 66 | |
| 5308551967 | Chang'an (Xi'an) | an ancient capital of more than ten dynasties in Chinese history (perpetual peace in mandarin) | 67 | |
| 5308551968 | Feudalism | nobles give land in exchange for protection given by knights and host peasants for food in exchange for more protection | 68 | |
| 5308551969 | Genghis Khan | Ruled the Mongol empire and conquered most of the eastern hemisphere | 69 | |
| 5308551970 | Code of Justinian | the collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I | 70 | |
| 5308551971 | Sacking of Constantinople | Mutinous Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople | 71 | |
| 5308551972 | Shintoism | he indigenous faith of the Japanese people and as old as Japan itself (the way of the gods) | 72 | |
| 5308551973 | William the Conqueror | He defeated the English forces at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and became the first Norman king of England | 73 | |
| 5308551974 | Byzantium | capital of the byzantine empire | 74 | |
| 5308551975 | Constantinople | former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium to be the byzantine empire's new capitol | 75 | |
| 5308551976 | Foot-binding | Ancient city built by the greeks and taken by the romans | 76 | |
| 5308551977 | Hanseatic League | a powerful economic and defensive alliance that left a great cultural and architectural heritage | 77 | |
| 5308551978 | Magna Carta | ancient charter of liberties to force the limitations of march power and guarantee rights | 78 | |
| 5308551979 | St. Cyril (Cyrillic Alphabet) | co-inventor of the first Slavic alphabet (to translate the bible) | 79 | |
| 5308551980 | Silk Road | an ancient network of trade routes that for centuries were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent | 80 |
