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| 5299713682 | American Web | 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 | 0 | |
| 5299713683 | Black Death | Name given to the massive epidemic that swept Eurasia in the 14th century | 1 | |
| 5299713684 | Bubonic Plague | A highly fatal disease spread by fleas, that devastated the Mediterranean world | 2 | |
| 5299713685 | Borobudur | The largest Buddhism monument anywhere in the world. Example of cultural exchange and syncretism | 3 | |
| 5299713687 | Ghana, Mali, Songhay | A series of important states that developed in the western and central Sudan, in response to the economic opportunities of trans-Saharan trade | 4 | |
| 5299713688 | Ibn Battuta | A famous Arab scholar, merchant and public official who visited much of the Islamic world in the 14th century | 5 | |
| 5299713689 | Great Zimbabwe | A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast | 6 | |
| 5299713690 | Indian Ocean Trade Network | The world's largest sea-based system of communication and trade before 1500ce | 7 | |
| 5299713693 | Monsoons | Alternating wind currents that blew eastward across the Indian Ocean in the summer and westward during the winter | 8 | |
| 5299713694 | Pochteca | Professional merchants among the Aztecs | 9 | |
| 5299713697 | Sand Roads | the routes of the trans-Saharan trade in Africa | 10 | |
| 5299713698 | Silk Roads | Land based trade routes that linked the distant peoples of Eurasia | 11 | |
| 5299713699 | Swahili Civilization | An East African civilization that emerged in the 8th century from a blending of Bantu, Islamic and other Indian Ocean trade elements | 12 | |
| 5299713700 | Srivijaya | A Malay kingdom that dominated the straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 ce. Noted for its creation of native/indian hybrid culture | 13 | |
| 5299713701 | Venice | An Italian city that by 1000 ce emerged as a major center of Mediterranean trade | 14 | |
| 5299713702 | trans-Saharan slave trade | A fairly small-scale trade that developed in the 12th century with west African slaves captured in raids being exported across the Sahara for sale mostly as household servants in Islamic North Africa | 15 | |
| 5299713703 | Third-Wave Civilizations | Civilizations that emerged between 500 and 1500 ce and were typified by intensifying trade networks | 16 |
