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| 5401523192 | Bushido | traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living | 0 | |
| 5401523193 | American Web Caliphate | The network of trade that linked parts of the pre-Columbian Americas. Provided a means of exchange for luxury goods and ideas over large areas | 1 | |
| 5401523194 | Black Death | Name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century; epidemic of bubonic plague in Europe that wiped the population | 2 | |
| 5401523195 | Bubonic Plague | A highly fatal disease spread by fleas, that devastated the Mediterranean world | 3 | |
| 5401523196 | Silk Roads | Land based trade routes that linked the distant peoples of Eurasia | 4 | |
| 5401523197 | Sand Roads | the routes of the trans-Saharan trade in Africa | 5 | |
| 5401523198 | Third Wave Civilization | Civilizations that emerged between 500 and 1500 ce and were typified by intensifying trade networks | 6 | |
| 5401523199 | Pochteca | Professional merchants among the Aztecs | 7 | |
| 5401523200 | Chu nom | A variation of Chinese writing developed in Vietnam that became the basis for an independent national literature; logographic writing system | 8 | |
| 5401523201 | Hangul | A phonetic alphabet created in Korea in the fifteenth century | 9 | |
| 5401523202 | Jurchen | A nomadic people that established a state that included parts of northern China; a Tungusic people who inhabited the region of Manchuria until around 1630, at which point they were reformed and combined with their neighbors as the Manchus. | 10 | |
| 5401523203 | Kami | Sacred spirits of Japan, whether ancestors or natural phenomenon; their worship later came to be called Shinto | 11 | |
| 5401523204 | Khitan | A nomadic people who established a state that included parts of northern china (901-1125); originated from Mongolia, Northeast China, and the Russian far east;(Definition from merriam webster) a conquering Tatar people maintaining hegemony of northern China in the Liao dynasty from the 10th to the 12th centuries | 12 | |
| 5401523205 | Tribute System | Chinese method of dealing with foreign lands and people's that assumed the subordination of all non-Chinese authorities and required the payment of tribute to the Chinese emperor; helped shape much of East Asian affairs | 13 | |
| 5401523206 | Neo-Confucianism | term that describes the resurgence of Confucianism and the influence of Confucian scholars during the T'ang Dynasty; a unification of Daoist or Buddhist metaphysics with Confucian pragmatism | 14 | |
| 5401523207 | Samurai | a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy | 15 | |
| 5401523208 | Greek Fire | kind of napalm made by Byzantine empire, helped defeat Arab threat; used by the greeks to besiege constantinople | 16 | |
| 5401523209 | Iconoclasm | The rejection or destruction of religious images as heretical; the doctrine of iconoclasts; the destruction of figurines, paintings, etc. | 17 | |
| 5401523210 | Crusades | Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. |  | 18 |
| 5401523211 | Vikings | one of a seafaring Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of northern and western Europe from the eighth through the tenth century. | 19 | |
| 5401523212 | Cyrillic | missionary sent to convert eastern Europe and the Balkans; responsible for creating the Slavic written script called Cyrillic. | 20 | |
| 5401523213 | Guild | n medieval Europe, an association of men (rarely women), such as merchants, artisans, or professors, who worked in a particular trade and banded together to promote their economic and political interests. (403) | 21 | |
| 5401523214 | Indulgence | The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins, granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. | 22 | |
| 5401523215 | Natural Philosophy | The use of natural senses to make logical conclusions in relation to philosophy and science. | 23 | |
| 5401523216 | Abbasid | Dynasty that overthrew the Umayyad to rule the Muslim caliphate from 750 to 1258; for 150 years they maintained the unity of the caliphate and Islamic civilization and culture. | 24 | |
| 5401523217 | Casaeropapism | System in which the temporal ruler extends his own power to ecclesiastical and theological matters. Such emperors appointed bishops and the Eastern Patriarch, directed the development of liturgical practices, and even aided the recruitment of monks.;; The idea of combing the power of secular government with religious power | 25 | |
| 5401523218 | Anatolia | a huge peninsula in modern-day Turkey that juts out into the Black and Meditteranean Seas;, modern-day western Turkey, has mountains that have served as a refuge for persecuted groups throughout history and that still do today | 26 | |
| 5401523219 | Bedouins | Nomadic pastoralists of the Arabian peninsula; culture based on camel and goat nomadism; early converts to Islam;; a nomadic arab of the desert | 27 | |
| 5401523220 | Dhimmis | A person of a non-Muslim religion whose right to practice that religion is protected within an Islamic society | 28 | |
| 5401523221 | Hadiths | A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran, the most important basis for Islamic law. (p. 241) | 29 | |
| 5401523222 | Madrassas | Formal colleges for higher instruction in the teachings of Islam as well as in secular subjects, founded throughout the Islamic world | 30 | |
| 5401523223 | Muslim | An adherent of the Islamic religion; a person who 'submits' (in Arabic, Islam means 'submission') to the will of God. (p. 231) ) | 31 | |
| 5401523224 | Quaran | Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam. (p. 232) | 32 | |
| 5401523225 | Sharia | definition: the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Muhammed; Describes religious and secular duties; like dharma | 33 | |
| 5401523226 | Hajj | definition: the fifth pillar of Islam, a pilgrimage to Mecca | 34 | |
| 5401523227 | Hijra | The Migration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in A.D. 622, marking the founding of Islam | 35 | |
| 5401523228 | Iman | Sheperd a place for cavs | 36 | |
| 5401523229 | Jihad | The spiritual striving of each Muslim towards godly life and armed struggle against the forces of unbelief and evil | 37 | |
| 5401523230 | Jizya | Special tax paid by dhimmis in Muslim-ruled territory in return for freedom to practice their own religion | 38 | |
| 5401523231 | Mecca | City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, and ritual center of the Islamic religion. (p. 230); holy city of Islam | 39 | |
| 5401523232 | Umma | The community of all Muslims. A major innovation against the background of seventh-century Arabia, where traditionally kinship rather than faith had determined membership in a community. (p. 231); the whole community of Muslims bound together by ties of religion | 40 | |
| 5401523233 | Ulama | definition: Orthodox religious scholars within Islam; pressed for a more conservative and restrictive theology; a body of Muslim scholars recognized as having specialist knowledge of Islamic sacred law and theology | 41 | |
| 5401523234 | Sikhism | A significant syncretic religion that evolved in India, blending elements of Islam and Hinduism. Founded by Guru Nanak; Monotheistic religion founded in Punjab | 42 |
