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| 44298784 | Globalization | growth to a global or worldwide scale | 0 | |
| 44298785 | Humanism | the proper study of man is man | 1 | |
| 44298786 | import | commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | 2 | |
| 44298787 | export | commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | 3 | |
| 44298788 | dar al-Islam | "the abode of peace" is the literal Aribac meaning | 4 | |
| 44298789 | supply | an amount of something available for use | 5 | |
| 44298790 | demand | the ability and desire to purchase goods and services | 6 | |
| 44298791 | scarcity | a small and inadequate amount | 7 | |
| 44298792 | commodities | economic goods or products before they are processed and/or given a brand name, such as a product of agriculture | 8 | |
| 44298793 | ration | a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity) | 9 | |
| 44298794 | World Trade Routes | almost all populous regions of Eurasia, as well as north an east Africa | 10 | |
| 44298795 | trade disporas | networks of interconnected commercial communities living and working in major trade cities throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia | 11 | |
| 44298796 | pochteca | Special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items | 12 | |
| 44298797 | timbuktu | a city in central Mali near the Niger river | 13 | |
| 44298798 | Sahel | the northern and southern edges of the Sahara Desert | 14 | |
| 44298799 | Haji | 5th Pillar of Practice; pilgrimage to Mecca; wear simple attire to symbolize the abandonment of the material world for the sake of God | 15 | |
| 44298800 | lateen | a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean | 16 | |
| 44298801 | Jongs(junks) | Chinese ships equipped with watertight bulkheads, sternpost rudders, compasses, and bamboo fenders; dominant force in Asian seas east of the Malayan peninsula | 17 | |
| 44298802 | Mongols | A member of any of the traditionally nomadic peoples of Mongolia | 18 | |
| 44298803 | Ming Dynasty | the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 | 19 | |
| 44298804 | Abbasid Empire | founded by Abu- Al Abbas from 700 to 1258 and was based on equality | 20 | |
| 44298805 | Pax Mongolica | the Mongolian Peace, over a vast region,in which intercontinental trade could flourish across the reopened silk route | 21 | |
| 44298806 | free market economy | an economic system in which the means of production are largely privately owned and there is little or no government control over the markets | 22 | |
| 44298807 | zimbabwe | the biggest and most celebrated of several stone enclosures in east Africa dating from the tenth to fifteenth centuries | 23 | |
| 45642359 | Yurts | a portable dwelling used by the nomadic people of Central Asia | 24 | |
| 45897201 | Chinggis Khan | born in 1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all Mongol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China, territories as far west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227 prior to conquest of most of the Islamic world | 25 | |
| 45897202 | vikings | seafaring, from Scandinavia around the 1000 are well known, documented, and authenticated in the artifacts they left behind in their temporary settlements on the northeast coast of North America | 26 | |
| 45897203 | Leif Eriksson | The son of Erik the Red. He sailed from west Norway to Greenland but strong winds blew his ship off course and carried him all the way to the North American coast | 27 | |
| 45897204 | William the Conqueror | duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England | 28 | |
| 45897205 | Battle of Lepanto | Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope | 29 | |
| 45897206 | guilds | a sworn association of people who gather for some common purpose. | 30 | |
| 45897207 | Hanseatic League | a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas | 31 | |
| 45897208 | Anselm | an Italian who was a Benedictine monk | 32 | |
| 45897209 | Thomas Aqinas | a domincain friar and priest who was one of scholastisims champions | 33 | |
| 45897210 | Rennaissance | Revival of learning or "rebirth" that ocurred in Europe between 1300 and 1600 | 34 | |
| 45916975 | The Medici Family | a powerful banking family who had branch offices throughout Italy and in the major cities of Europe. | 35 | |
| 45916976 | Michelangelo | Florentine sculptor and painter and architect | 36 | |
| 45916977 | Leonardo da Vinci | Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect | 37 | |
| 45916978 | Niccolo Machiavelli | a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527) | 38 | |
| 45916979 | Johannes Gutenburg | German printer; in 1448 he invented a printing press that used movable type. | 39 | |
| 45916980 | Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa. | 40 | |
| 45916981 | Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. (p. 428) | 41 | |
| 45916982 | Vasco de Gama | A Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean | 42 | |
| 45916983 | Chrsitopher Columbus | thought he could reach Asia by sailing west, discovered Bahamas in 1492 | 43 | |
| 45916984 | Amerigo Vespucci | Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America | 44 | |
| 45916985 | Vasco de Balboa | First European to reach the Pacific Ocean, 1513. | 45 | |
| 45916986 | Bubonic Plague | the most common form of the plague, Also called the Black Death was a deadly disease that spread through Europe and killed one out of every three people | 46 | |
| 45916987 | Aztec Empire | A multi-ethnic empire in central Mexico, whose leading ethnicity spoke the Nahuatl language from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century with Tenochtitlan (todays Mexico City) as its capital. The ~ was conquered by the Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortes in 1520. | 47 | |
| 45916988 | Inca | Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco. | 48 | |
| 45916989 | Toltecs | Powerful postclassic empire in central Mexico (900-1168 C.E.). It influenced much of Mesoamerica. Aztecs claimed ties to this earlier civilization. | 49 | |
| 45916990 | Caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. | 50 | |
| 45916991 | Malay Sailors | Southeast Asian sailors who traveled the Indian Ocean; by 500 C.E., they had colonized Madagascar, introducing the cultivation of the banana | 51 | |
| 45916992 | Swahili | the most widely spoken Bantu languages | 52 | |
| 45916993 | Silk Road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles) | 53 | |
| 45916994 | Mali Empire | Formed in 1240 when Sundiata took control of Ghana Empire. It controlled trade across Sahara, the South and the Niger River. | 54 | |
| 45916995 | Songhay | successor state to Mali; dominated middle reaches of Niger valley; formed as independent kingdom under a Berber dynasty; capital at Gao; reached imperial status under Sunni Ali | 55 | |
| 45916996 | 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. | 56 | |
| 45916997 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain | 57 | |
| 45916998 | James Cook | English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands | 58 | |
| 45916999 | Joseph Banks | a young scientist who made vast contribuations to botany and zoology on the basis of his findings on this voyage | 59 | |
| 45917000 | Abu Bakr | This person was Muhammad's closest adviser and the first convert to Islam. He accompanied Muhammad on his journey to Medina. | 60 | |
| 45919464 | Ali | the fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shiites | 61 | |
| 45919465 | Bagdad | capital and largest city of Iraq | 62 | |
| 45919466 | Byzantine Empire | a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 | 63 | |
| 45919467 | Caliphate | the era of Islam's ascendaancy from the death of Mohammed until the 13th century | 64 | |
| 45919468 | Caste | a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth | 65 | |
| 45919469 | Umar I | was the most powerful of the four Rashidun Caliphs and one of the most powerful and influential Muslim rulers | 66 | |
| 45919470 | Imams | spiritual leaders of Shi'ah Islam, said to be direct descendents of Muhammad | 67 | |
| 45919471 | Ulama | the body of mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community | 68 | |
| 45919472 | Berber | an ethnic minority descended from Berbers and Arabs and living in northern Africa | 69 | |
| 45921423 | Tribute System | A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food, cloth, and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies. | 70 | |
| 45921424 | Crusades | 1096 Christian Europe aim to reclaim Jerusalem and aid they Byzantines; 1st success and the rest a failure; weakens the Byzantines; opens up trade | 71 | |
| 45921425 | Dome of the Rock | a shrine in Jerusalem at the site from which muhammad ascended through the seven heavens to the throne of God | 72 | |
| 45921426 | Dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family | 73 | |
| 45921427 | Five pillars of Islam | Declaration of faith, prayer, alms, fasting, and pilgrimage | 74 | |
| 45925615 | Golden Horde | a Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century | 75 | |
| 45925616 | Hagia Sophia | Eastern Orthodox church built in Constantinople | 76 | |
| 45925617 | Holy Roman Empire | the lands ruled by Charlemagne | 77 | |
| 45925618 | Incan | a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s | 78 | |
| 45925619 | spanish Inquisition | the Inquisition that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain (especially from the 15th to the 17th centuries) | 79 | |
| 45925620 | Islam | the religion of Muslims collectively which governs their civilization and way of life | 80 | |
| 45925621 | Kublai Khan | Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China | 81 | |
| 45925622 | Mali | a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa | 82 | |
| 45925623 | Mansa Musa | this Mali king brought Mali to its peak of power and wealth from 1312 the 1337; he was the most powerful king in west africa | 83 | |
| 45925624 | Marco Polo | Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan | 84 | |
| 45948272 | Mayan | a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy | 85 | |
| 45948273 | Mecca | City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, and ritual center of the Islamic religion. | 86 | |
| 45948274 | Medina | City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca | 87 | |
| 45948275 | Mesoamerica | Middle America" the region extending from modern-day Mexico through Central America | 88 | |
| 45948276 | Middle Ages | the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance | 89 | |
| 45948277 | Ming | the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 | 90 | |
| 45948278 | Peasant | a person who makes a living from working the soil, especially in poorer countries | 91 | |
| 45948279 | Pope | the head of the Roman Catholic Church | 92 | |
| 45948280 | Pope Innocent II | most powerful pope; claimed to rule the whole world; covened 4th Lateran Council---annual confession of sin mass on Easter, mass became sacrifice, Jews live in ghettos | 93 | |
| 45948281 | Qur'an | the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina | 94 | |
| 45948282 | Song | the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279 | 95 | |
| 45948283 | Sufis | a mystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, and a simple life | 96 | |
| 45948284 | Sunni/Shia | two main branches of orthodox Islam | 97 | |
| 45948285 | Tang | the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907 | 98 | |
| 45948286 | Tartars | Mongols; captured Russian cities and largely destroyed Kievan state in 1236; left Russian Orthodoxy and aristocracy intact | 99 | |
| 45948287 | Umayidd | a member of the dynasty that ruled at Damascus a.d. 661-750, claiming descent from Omayya, cousin of the grandfather of Muhammad the Prophet. | 100 | |
| 45948288 | vikings | Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia | 101 | |
| 45948289 | Moors | treeless windy highland areas with damp ground | 102 | |
| 45948290 | Bedouins | Nomadic herders who used camels to cross the desert; Raids for grazing land frequent warfare | 103 | |
| 45948291 | Woodblock printing | a form of printing in which an entire page is carved into a block of wood | 104 | |
| 45948292 | Astrolabe | an early form of sextant | 105 | |
| 45948293 | Mosque | (Islam) a Muslim place of worship | 106 | |
| 45948294 | Footbinding | practice in chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household | 107 | |
| 45948295 | Compass | navigational instrument for finding directions | 108 | |
| 45948296 | Bantu | a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent | 109 | |
| 45948297 | Steppes | wide rolling grassy plains that stretch from the Black Sea to northern China | 110 | |
| 45948588 | Frances of Assisi | came up with the philosophy that the only person responsible for man is man. humanism | 111 |
