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| 49831672 | Rabban Sauma | was a Nestorian Christian priest whom the Mongols sent to the Pope to form an alliance against the Muslims. | 0 | |
| 49831673 | John of Montecorvino | The most active of Roman Catholic missionaries in China | 1 | |
| 49831674 | Hongwu | He came from a very poor family, but for his size and strength, he came to the notice of military commanders and made his way through the ranks which led to him becoming emporer of the Ming Dynasty | 2 | |
| 49831675 | Zheng He | a eunuch in the service of the Ming emperor Yung-lo and commander in chief of the Chinese expeditionary fleet to the South Seas in the early years of the 15th century | 3 | |
| 49831676 | Prince Henry | Portuguese prince who started a school for sailors and sponsored early voyages of exploration | 4 | |
| 49831677 | Vasco de Gama | A Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean | 5 | |
| 49831678 | Fernando and Isabel | the king and queen of Spain, underwrote Columbus's voyage | 6 | |
| 49831679 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) ; doubted that his plan could lead to a profitable trade | 7 | |
| 49831680 | qadi | A Muslim judge who renders decisions according to the Shari'ah, the canon law of Islam. | 8 | |
| 49831681 | Sufi | A Muslim who seeks to achieve direct contact with God through mystical means | 9 | |
| 49831682 | Melaka | The first major center of Islam in Southeast Asia, a port kingdom on the southwestern coast of the Malay Peninsula. | 10 | |
| 49831683 | Little Ice Age | A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable. (p. 462) | 11 | |
| 49831684 | Black Death | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe | 12 | |
| 49831685 | Ming Dynasty | marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia | 13 | |
| 49831686 | Reconquista | was he effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain, lasting from the 1100s until 1492. | 14 | |
| 49831687 | renaissance | the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world | 15 | |
| 49831688 | Humanism | the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason | 16 |
