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| 7739815393 | American Web | Term used to describe a network of trade that linked parts of pre-Columbian Americas The web provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas. | 0 | |
| 7739839933 | Angkor Wat | Largest religious structure in the premodern world, construction on the temple started in the early 1100s C.E. Built to express the Hindu understanding of the cosmos. | 1 | |
| 7740021393 | Black Death | The name given to a massive epidemic that swept over Eurasia in the fourteenth century. | 2 | |
| 7740040033 | Borobudor | The largest Buddhist monument ever built, ten-level monument with an elaborate caring program, est. ninth century. | 3 | |
| 7740087597 | Ghana, Mali, Songhay | Important states that developed in western and central Sudan in the period 500-1600 C.E. | 4 | |
| 7740239695 | Great Zimbabwe | A powerful state in Africa, it participated in the trading of gold. It flourished between 1250 and 1350 C.E. | 5 | |
| 7740335936 | Indian Ocean Trading Network | The worlds largest sea-based trading/exchange before 1500 C.E. | 6 | |
| 7740343108 | Thorfinn Karlsfeni | A wealthy merchant with a Norwegian Viking background, tried to establish a colony on the coast of what is now known as Canada. | 7 | |
| 7740353933 | Pochteca | Aztecs that were professional merchants. | 8 | |
| 7740367025 | Sand Roads | Term to describe routes of the trans-Sahara trade in Africa. | 9 | |
| 7740375974 | Silk Roads | Trade routes on land connecting Eurasia. | 10 | |
| 7740381473 | Swahili Civilization | A Malay kingdom that dominated the Straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 C.E. Noted for the creation of native/Indian hybrid culture. | 11 | |
| 7740397701 | Tran-Saharan Slave Trade | Small-scale trade that developed in the twelfth century. It exported West African slaves and household servants when they had raids. | 12 | |
| 7740406852 | Xiongnu | Major nomadic confederacy that was established in 200 B.C.E. and eventually reached from Manchuria to Central Asia. | 13 | |
| 7740418564 | Hangul | A phoenetic alphabet developed in Korea in the fifteenth century. | 14 | |
| 7740429988 | Chu Nom | A variation of Chinese writing developed in Vietnam that became the basis for an independent national literature "southern script." | 15 | |
| 7740443398 | Bushido | The "way of the warrior," referring to the military virtues of the Japanese samurai, including bravery, loyalty, and an emphasis on death over surrender. | 16 | |
| 7740458367 | Hangzhou | China's capital during the Song dynasty, with a population of more than a million people. | 17 | |
| 7740466256 | Economic Revolution | A major economic quickening that took place in China under the Song dynasty marked by rapid population growth urbanization, economic specialization, the development of an immense network of internal waterway and a great increase in industrial production and innovation. | 18 | |
| 7740488949 | Tribute System | Chinese method of dealing with foreign lands and peoples that assumed that subordination of all non-Chinese authorities and required the payment of tribute-products of value from their countries - to the Chinese emperor (although the Chinese gifts given in return were often much more valuable). | 19 | |
| 7740510337 | Tang Dynasty | Ruling dynasty of China from 628 to 907; noted for it openness to foreign cultural influences. | 20 | |
| 7740520331 | Song Dynasty | Ruling dynasty of Chinese from 960-1279, notes from its rapid economic development. | 21 | |
| 7740527090 | Sui Dynasty | Ruling dynasty of China (581-618) that effectively reunited the country after several centuries of political fragmentation. | 22 |
