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| 11820060151 | American Web | A term to describe the network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas; although less intense and complete than the Afro-Eurasian trade networks, this web nonetheless provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas. |  | 0 |
| 12428770465 | Black Death | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe |  | 1 |
| 12428783265 | Borobudur | The largest Buddhist monument ever built. It is a mountainous ten-level monument with an elaborate carving program probably built in the ninth century C.E. by the Sailendras rulers of central Java; it is an outstanding example of cultural exchange and syncretism. |  | 2 |
| 12428801356 | Bubonic Plague: Ghana, Mali, Songhay | All drew on the wealth of trans-Saharan trade, taxing merchants who conducted it. In the wider world, these states soon acquired a reputation for great riches and monopolies soon followed. | 3 | |
| 12428878940 | Great Zimbabwe | A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast; flourished between 1250 and 1350 C.E. |  | 4 |
| 12428899254 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. |  | 5 |
| 12428917775 | Indian Ocean trading network | The world's largest sea-based system of communication and exchange before 1500 C.E., Indian Ocean commerce stretched from southern China to eastern Africa and included not only the exchange of luxury and bulk goods but also the exchange of ideas and crops. |  | 6 |
| 12428930844 | Jie people | A nomadic people who controlled much of northern China in the third and fourth centuries; many converted to Buddhism. |  | 7 |
| 12434190062 | Malaysians | Speakers of Austronesian languages from what is now Indonesia who became major traders in Southeast Asia and Madagascar. |  | 8 |
| 12434197304 | Monsoons | A seasonal wind pattern that causes wet and dry seasons. | 9 | |
| 12434200258 | oasis cities of Central Asia | Cities such as Merv, Samarkand, Khotan, and Dunhuang which became centers of trans-Eurasian trade. |  | 10 |
| 12434203279 | Pochteca | Special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items |  | 11 |
| 12434206148 | Sailendras | a kingdom of central Java that flourished from the eight century to the tenth century CE; noted for being deeply influenced by Indian culture | | 12 |
| 12434213441 | Sand Roads | A term used to describe the routes of the trans-Sahara trade in Africa. |  | 13 |
| 12434215526 | Silk Roads | Land-based trade routes that linked Eurasia. | 14 | |
| 12434217291 | Srivijaya | A Malay kingdom that dominated the Straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 C.E.; noted for its creation of a native/Indian hybrid culture. |  | 15 |
| 12434220898 | Sudan | From the Arabic term for "land of black people," a large region of West Africa that became part of a major exchange circuit. |  | 16 |
| 12434224323 | Swahili Civilization | An East African civilization that emerged in the eighth century C.E. from a blending of Bantu, Islamic, and other Indian Ocean trade elements. |  | 17 |
| 12434226467 | Third-Wave Civilizations | Civilizations that emerged between 500 and 1500 C.E. and were typified by intensifying trade networks. |  | 18 |
| 12434229923 | trans-Saharan slave trade | Small scale trade, West African salves captured in raids being exported across the Saharan for sale |  | 19 |
| 12434233620 | Venice | An Italian city that by 1000 C.E. emerged as a major center of Mediterranean trade. |  | 20 |
