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| 3623182797 | Silk Roads | International land trade route between China and the Mediterranean | 0 | |
| 3623192232 | Silk | A luxury item of great comfort and status was used as currency. Symbol of status in China & Byzantine Empire | 1 | |
| 3623198051 | Black Death | May have been bubonic plague, anthrax, or other disease. Killed 75-200 million people around 1346-1353 | 2 | |
| 3623211513 | Indian Ocean trading network | World's largest sea based system of communication and exchange before 1500 CE. Stretched from southern China to eastern Africa. Exchanged goods, ideas, crops. | 3 | |
| 3623230313 | Arabian Sea (location) | Water body east of Arabian peninsula and west of India. |  | 4 |
| 3623240942 | Persian Gulf (location) | Water body between the Arabian peninsula and Persia. Northeast of modern day Saudi Arabia and southwest of Iran. |  | 5 |
| 3623252520 | Red Sea (location) | Water body between northeast Africa, Israel, and the Arabian peninsula. |  | 6 |
| 3623262251 | Bay of Bengal (location) | Water body east of India, south of Bangladesh, and west of southeast Asia |  | 7 |
| 3623273924 | South China Sea (location) | Water body east of China and Vietnam and north of the Philippines. |  | 8 |
| 3623282554 | Srivijaya | Malay kingdom that dominated the Straits of Malacca in 670 to 1025 CE; Noted for its creation of a native/hybrid culture | 9 | |
| 3623288496 | Borobudur | Largest Buddhist monument ever built by the rulers of central Java in 9th century CE | 10 | |
| 3623291839 | Angkor Wat | Largest religious structure in the pre-modern world; built in Cambodia in the early 1100's CE; expresses Hindu understandings of the cosmos | 11 | |
| 3623305319 | Swahili civilization | East African civilization that emerged in 8th century CE from blending of Bantu, Islamic and other Indian Ocean trade elments | 12 | |
| 3623312129 | Great Zimbabwe | Powerful state in African interior that emerged from growing trade in gold to the East African coast. Flourished between 1250 and 1350 CE | 13 | |
| 3623320280 | Sand Roads | Routes of the Trans-Saharan Trade in Africa | 14 | |
| 3623327802 | Ghana, Mali, Songhay | Important states that developed in West Africa in 500 to 1600 CE in response to economic opportunities of trans-Saharan trade | 15 | |
| 3623339808 | trans-Saharan slave trade | developed in 12th century CE exporting West African slaves captured in roads across the Sahara for sale | 16 | |
| 3623346012 | American web | Network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Colombian Americas provided means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas | 17 | |
| 3623353582 | Thorfinn Karlsfeni | Well-born, wealthy merchant & seaman of Norwegian viking background who led an unsuccessful expedition to establish a colony on the coast of what is now Newfoundland, Canada in early 11th century CE | 18 | |
| 3623365993 | pochteca | professional mecrhants among the Aztecs | 19 |
