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| 9957695250 | monastic | relating to monks, nuns, or others living under religious vows, or the buildings in which they live. | 0 | |
| 9957716410 | papacy | the office or authority of the Pope. | 1 | |
| 9957722439 | eunuch | a castrated man, especially one employed by rulers in the Middle East and Asia as a harem guard or palace official. | 2 | |
| 9957730451 | griot | a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa. | 3 | |
| 9957856071 | kowtow | kneel and touch the ground with the forehead in worship or submission as part of Chinese custom | 4 | |
| 9957863201 | monsoon | the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter. | 5 | |
| 9957870399 | jizya | a per capita yearly tax historically levied by Islamic states on certain non-Muslim subjects | 6 | |
| 9957876317 | hajj | the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that takes place in the last month of the year, and that all Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime. | 7 | |
| 9957881494 | feudalism | the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him labor, and a share of the produce in exchange for military protection. | 8 | |
| 9957899986 | guild | a medieval association of artisans (craftsmen) or merchants, often having considerable power | 9 | |
| 9957917233 | Pax Mongolica | describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory that the Mongols conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries. | 10 | |
| 9957944115 | siege warfare | a Medieval military operation involving the surrounding and blockading of a town, castle or fortress by an army in the attempt to capture it. | 11 | |
| 9957975650 | matrilineal society | a kinship system in which ancestral descent is traced through mother instead of the father's lines | 12 | |
| 9957986247 | schism | a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief. | 13 | |
| 9957991859 | theocracy | a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god | 14 | |
| 9958003034 | hegira | Muhammad's departure from Mecca to Medina in AD 622, prompted by the opposition of the merchants of Mecca and marking the consolidation of the first Muslim community | 15 | |
| 9958008246 | jihad | a struggle or fight against the enemies of Islam. | 16 | |
| 9958012596 | polygyny | the practice or condition of having more than one wife at one time. | 17 | |
| 9958020888 | Sunni Islam | branch of Islam that believes Muhammad did not clearly designate a successor and the Muslim community acted correctly in designating Abu Bakr as the first caliph | 18 | |
| 9958039544 | Shi'a Islam | holds that Muhammad announced that his son-in-law and cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor. | 19 | |
| 9958065653 | commercial | concerned with or engaged in the activity of buying and selling. | 20 | |
| 9958068155 | linguistic | relating to language | 21 | |
| 9958072074 | indigenous | originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native. | 22 | |
| 9958072075 | flourish | (of a person, animal, or other living organism) grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly favorable environment. | 23 | |
| 9958078333 | demographic | relating to the structure of populations. | 24 | |
| 9958082287 | literary | concerning the writing, study, or content of literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form. | 25 | |
| 9958088861 | peasant | a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation | 26 | |
| 9958088862 | steppe | a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe, inter-Asia, or Siberia. | 27 | |
| 9958094667 | consumer | a person who purchases goods and services for personal use. | 28 | |
| 9958100302 | epidemic | a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. | 29 | |
| 9958149558 | serf | an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate. | 30 | |
| 9958163975 | vassal | a holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance. | 31 | |
| 9958222564 | khan | any of the successors of Genghis Khan, supreme rulers of the Turkish, Tartar, and Mongol peoples and emperors of China in the Middle Ages. | 32 | |
| 9958232909 | renaissance | the cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome. | 33 | |
| 9958257177 | humnism | an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems. | 34 | |
| 9958265984 | 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. | 35 |
