The Earth and Its Peoples
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| 85457711 | Silk Road | Caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran. | 0 | |
| 85457712 | Sasanid Empire | Iranian empire, established ca. 226, with a capital in Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia. The Sasanid emperors established Zoroastrianism as the state religion | 1 | |
| 85457713 | Stirrup | Device for securing a horseman's feet, enabling him to wield weapons more effectively. | 2 | |
| 85457714 | Sahel | south of the Sahara; literally "coastland in Arabic. | 3 | |
| 85457715 | Savanna | Tropical or subtropical grassland, either treeless or with occasional clumps of trees | 4 | |
| 85457716 | Sub-Saharan Africa | Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara | 5 | |
| 85457717 | Steppes | Treeless plains, especially the high, flat expanses of northern Eurasia, which usually have little rain and are covered with coarse grass | 6 | |
| 85457718 | Trans-Saharan caravan routes | Trading network linking North Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara | 7 | |
| 85457719 | Indian Ocean Maritime System | In premodern times, a network of seaports, trade routes, and maritime culture linking countries on the rim of the Indian Ocean from Africa to Indonesia. | 8 | |
| 85457720 | Ethiopia | East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River. | 9 | |
| 85457721 | Bantu | Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. | 10 | |
| 85457722 | Armenia | One of the earliest Christian kingdoms, situated in eastern Anatolia and the western Caucasus and occupied by speakers of the Armenian language. | 11 |
