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| 44297143 | Globalization | The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world. | 0 | |
| 44297144 | Import | commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | 1 | |
| 44297145 | Export | commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | 2 | |
| 44297146 | Supply | an amount of something available for use | 3 | |
| 44297147 | Demand | the amount of goods and services people are willing to buy | 4 | |
| 44297148 | Scarcity | limited quantities of resources to meet unlimited wants | 5 | |
| 44297149 | Commodities | economic goods or products before they are processed and/or given a brand name, such as a product of agriculture | 6 | |
| 44297150 | Free Market Supply | An economic system in which the means of production are largely privately owned and there is little or no goverment control over the markets | 7 | |
| 44297151 | Ration | a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity) | 8 | |
| 44297152 | World Trade Routes | A relay system of trade by land and sea connections. | 9 | |
| 44297153 | Trade Diaspora | networks of interconnected commercial communities living and working major trade cities through out Africa, Europe and Asia. | 10 | |
| 44297154 | Pochteca | Special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items | 11 | |
| 44297155 | Timbuktu | a city in central Mali near the Niger river | 12 | |
| 44297156 | Sahel | a strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas | 13 | |
| 44297157 | Haji | 5th Pillar of Practice; pilgrimage to Mecca; wear simple attire to symbolize the abandonment of the material world for the sake of God | 14 | |
| 44297158 | Lateen | a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean | 15 | |
| 44297159 | Jongs | used as a familiar form of address to a man or woman | 16 | |
| 44297160 | Mongols | A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire, living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan, linking western and eastern Eurasia. >(p. 325) | 17 | |
| 44297161 | Ming Dynasty | A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia | 18 | |
| 44297162 | Abbasid Empire | founded by Abu- Al Abbas from 700 to 1258 and was based on equality | 19 | |
| 44297163 | Pax Mongolica | Mongol peace | 20 | |
| 44297164 | Yurts | movable tents Mongols lived in | 21 | |
| 44297165 | Chinggis Khan | born in 1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all MOngol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China, territories as far west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227 prior to conquest of most of the Islamic world | 22 | |
| 44297166 | Vikings | one of a seafaring Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of northern and western from the eighth through the tenth century. Invaders of Europe. | 23 | |
| 44297167 | Leif Eriksson | The son of Erik the Red. He sailed from west Norway to Greenland but strong winds blew his ship off course and carried him all the way to the North American coast | 24 | |
| 44297168 | William the Conquer | A NORMAN KING who became the king of England | 25 | |
| 44297169 | Battle of Lepanto | a naval battle fought between a Spanish and Venetian fleet and the German navy. The Spanish won. The battle meant that European navies ahd surpassed the Muslims. The Turks could no longer challenge Europeans on international routes. | 26 | |
| 44297170 | Guilds | business associations that dominated medieval towns; they passed laws, levied taxes, built protective walls for the city, etc. Each guild represented workers in one occupation such as weavers, bakers, brewers, sword makers, etc. | 27 | |
| 44297171 | Hanseatic League | a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas | 28 | |
| 44297172 | Anselm | an Italian who was a Benedictine monk | 29 | |
| 44297173 | Frances of Assisi | Saint who worried about animals | 30 | |
| 44297174 | Thomas Aquinas | (Roman Catholic Church) Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology | 31 | |
| 44297175 | Renaissance | the revival of learning and culture | 32 | |
| 44297176 | Humanism | the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason | 33 | |
| 44297177 | The Medici Family | a powerful banking family who had branch offices throughout Italy and in the major cities of Europe. | 34 | |
| 44297178 | Michelangelo | Florentine sculptor and painter and architect | 35 | |
| 44297179 | Leonardo da Vinci | Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect | 36 | |
| 44297180 | Niccolo Machiavelli | a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527) | 37 | |
| 44297181 | Johannes Gutenberg | German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468) | 38 | |
| 44297182 | Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa. (p. 425) | 39 | |
| 44297183 | Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428) | 40 | |
| 44297184 | Vasco de Gama | A Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean | 41 | |
| 44297185 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) | 42 | |
| 44297186 | Amerigo Vespucci | Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America | 43 | |
| 44297187 | Bubonic Plague | Also called the Black Death was a deadly disease that spread through Europe and killed one out of every three people | 44 | |
| 44297188 | Vasco de Balboa | First European to reach the Pacific Ocean, 1513. | 45 | |
| 44297189 | Aztec Empire | lead by emperor Montezume the Aztecs originally defeated the spainish but the spainish came back and defeated them through war and disease | 46 | |
| 44297190 | Inca | a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s | 47 | |
| 44297191 | Toltecs | Nomadic peoples from beyond the northern frontier of sedentary agriculture in Mesoamerica; established capital at Tula after migration into central Mesoamerican plateau; strongly militaristic ethic, including cult of human sacrifice. | 48 | |
| 44297192 | Caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. (p. 427) | 49 | |
| 44298400 | Malay Sailors | Southeast Asian sailors who traveled the Indian Ocean; by 500 C.E., they had colonized Madagascar, introducing the cultivation of the banana | 50 | |
| 44298401 | Swahili | the most widely spoken Bantu languages | 51 | |
| 44298402 | Silk Road | An ancient trade route between China and Europe. | 52 | |
| 44298403 | Mali Empire | From 1235-1400, this was a strong empire of Western African. With its trading cities of Timbuktu and Gao, it had many mosques and universities. The Empire was ruled by two great rulers, Sundiata and Mansa Musa. Thy upheld a strong gold-salt trade. The fall of the empire was caused by the lack of strong rulers who could govern well. | 53 | |
| 44298404 | Songhay Empire | Portion of Mali after that kingdom collapsed around 1500; this empire controlled Timbuktu. | 54 | |
| 44298405 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan 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. (p. 373) | 55 | |
| 45896878 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain | 56 | |
| 45896879 | James Cook | English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779) | 57 | |
| 45896880 | Abu Bakr | Companion of 1st muslim leader after Muhammad. Regarded by Sunni's as the 1st caliph and rightful succesor. The Shi'ah regard him as a traitor of Muhammad. Known as best interpretter of dreams following Muhammad's death. | 58 | |
| 45896881 | Ali | the fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shiites | 59 | |
| 45896882 | Baghdad | Capital and largest city of iraq | 60 | |
| 45896883 | Byzantine Empire | a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 | 61 | |
| 45896884 | Caliphate | Office of a Caliph | 62 | |
| 45896885 | Joseph Banks | a young scientist who made vast contribuations to botany and zoology on the basis of his findings on this voyage | 63 | |
| 45896886 | Umar I | was the most powerful of the four Rashidun Caliphs and one of the most powerful and influential Muslim rulers | 64 | |
| 45896887 | Caste | (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus | 65 | |
| 45896888 | Imams | spiritual leaders of Shi'ah Islam, said to be direct descendents of Muhammad | 66 | |
| 45896889 | Ulama | the body of mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community | 67 | |
| 45896890 | Dar al-islam | Got to find | 68 | |
| 45896891 | Berber | a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt | 69 | |
| 45896892 | Tribute system | 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. (p. 307 | 70 | |
| 45896893 | Crusades | 1096 Christian Europe aim to reclaim Jerusalem and aid they Byzantines; 1st success and the rest a failure; weakens the Byzantines; opens up trade | 71 | |
| 45896894 | Dome of the rock | a shrine in Jerusalem at the site from which muhammad ascended through the seven heavens to the throne of God | 72 | |
| 45896895 | Dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family | 73 | |
| 45896896 | Five pillars of Islam | Declaration of faith, prayer, alms, fasting, and pilgrimage | 74 | |
| 45896897 | Golden Horde | a Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century | 75 | |
| 45896898 | Hagia Sophia | Eastern Orthodox church built in Constantinople | 76 | |
| 45896899 | Holy Roman Empire | the lands ruled by Charlemagne | 77 | |
| 45896900 | Incan | a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s | 78 | |
| 45896901 | Spanish Inquistion | systematic destruction of Muslims and Jews, forced them to get out of Spain, convert to Christianity, or die; was fall of Spain since Jews and Muslims were the merchants | 79 | |
| 45896902 | Islam | the religion of Muslims collectively which governs their civilization and way of life | 80 | |
| 45896903 | Kublai Khan | Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China | 81 | |
| 45896904 | Mali | a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa | 82 | |
| 45896905 | Mansa Musa | this Mali king brought Mali to its peak of power and wealth from 1312 the 1337; he was the most powerful king in west africa | 83 | |
| 45896906 | Marco Polo | Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324) | 84 | |
| 45896907 | Mayan | a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayan peoples | 85 | |
| 45896908 | Mecca | a place that attracts many visitors | 86 | |
| 45896909 | Medina | the ancient quarter of many cities in northern Africa | 87 | |
| 45896910 | Mesoamerica | Mexico and Central America | 88 | |
| 45896911 | Middle ages | the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance | 89 | |
| 45896912 | Ming | the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 | 90 | |
| 45896913 | Mohammed | the Arab prophet who founded Islam (570-632 | 91 | |
| 45896914 | Peasent | A poor personwho lives on and farms the land | 92 | |
| 45896915 | Pope | Head of Roman Catholic church | 93 | |
| 45896916 | Pope Innocent II | most powerful pope; claimed to rule the whole world; covened 4th Lateran Council---annual confession of sin mass on Easter, mass became sacrifice, Jews live in ghettos | 94 | |
| 45896917 | Qur'an | the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina | 95 | |
| 45896918 | Song | the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279 | 96 | |
| 45896919 | Sufis | a mystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, and a simple life | 97 | |
| 45994479 | Sunni/Shia | one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam / | 98 | |
| 45994480 | Tang | the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907 | 99 | |
| 45994481 | Tartars | Mongols; captured Russian cities and largely destroyed Kievan state in 1236; left Russian Orthodoxy and aristocracy intact | 100 | |
| 45994482 | Umayidd | a member of the dynasty that ruled at Damascus a.d. 661-750, claiming descent from Omayya, cousin of the grandfather of Muhammad the Prophet. | 101 | |
| 45994483 | Vikings | Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia | 102 | |
| 45994484 | Moors | the group of Muslims from North Africa who conquered Spain in the eighth century | 103 | |
| 45994485 | Bedouins | Arab nomads | 104 | |
| 45994486 | Woodblock printing | a form of printing in which an entire page is carved into a block of wood | 105 | |
| 45994487 | Astrolabe | an instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets | 106 | |
| 45994488 | Mosque | (Islam) a Muslim place of worship | 107 | |
| 45994489 | Footbinding | practice in chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household | 108 | |
| 45994490 | Compass | navigational instrument for finding directions | 109 | |
| 45994491 | Zimbabwe | a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia | 110 | |
| 45994492 | Bantu | a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent | 111 | |
| 45994493 | Steppes | wide rolling grassy plains that stretch from the Black Sea to northern China | 112 |
