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| 391353619 | Magna Carta | a document written in England in 1215 that granted certain rights to nobles; later these rights came to be extended to all classes | 0 | |
| 391353620 | Malay sailors | Southeast Asian sailors who traveled the Indian Ocean; by 500 CE, they had colonized Madagascar, introducing the cultivation of the banana | 1 | |
| 391353621 | Mamluks | Turkic military slaves who formed part of the army of the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries | 2 | |
| 391353622 | Manchus | peoples from northeastern Asia who founded China's Qing dynasty | 3 | |
| 391353623 | mandate | a type of colony in which the government is overseen by another nation | 4 | |
| 391353624 | mandate of heaven | the concept developed by the Zhou dynasty that the diety granted a dynasty the right to rule and took away that right if the dynasty did not rule wisely | 5 | |
| 391353625 | manorialism | the system of self-sufficient estates that arose in medieval Europe | 6 | |
| 391353626 | Maori | a member of a Polynesian group that settled in New Zealand about 800 CE | 7 | |
| 391353627 | maroon societies | runaway slaves in the Caribbean who established their own communities to resist slavery and colonial authorities | 8 | |
| 391353628 | Marshall Plan | a US plan to support the recovery and reconstruction of Western Europe after World War 2 | 9 | |
| 391353629 | mass consumerism | trade in products designed to appeal to a global market | 10 | |
| 391353630 | matrilineal | referring to a social system in which descent and inheritance are traced through the mother | 11 | |
| 391353631 | May Fourth Movement | a 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence | 12 | |
| 391353632 | medieval | pertaining to the middle ages of European history | 13 | |
| 391353633 | Meiji Restoration | the restoration of the Meiji emperor in Japan in 1868 that began a program of industrialization and centralization of Japan following the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate | 14 | |
| 391353634 | mercantilism | A European economic policy of the 16th-18th centuries that held that there was a limited amount of wealth available, and that each country must adopt policies to obtain as much wealth as possible for itself | 15 | |
| 391353635 | mestizos | in the Spanish colonies, persons of mixed European and Indian descent | 16 | |
| 391353636 | metropolitan | the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church | 17 | |
| 391353637 | Mexica | the name given to themselves by the Aztec people | 18 | |
| 391353638 | Middle Ages | the period of European history traditionally given as 500-1500 | 19 | |
| 391353639 | Middle Kingdom | term applied to the rich agricultural lands of the Yangtze River valley under the Zhou dynasty | 20 | |
| 391353640 | Middle Passage | the portion of trans-Atlantic trade that involved the passage of Africans from Africa to the Americas | 21 | |
| 391353641 | minaret | a tower attached to a mosque from which Muslims are called to worship | 22 | |
| 391353642 | mita | a labor system used by Andean societies in which community members shared work owed to rulers and the religious community | 23 | |
| 391353643 | moksha | in Hindu belief, the spirit's liberation from the cycle of reincarnation | 24 | |
| 391353644 | Mongol Peace | the period from about 1250 to 1350 in which the Mongols ensured the safety of Eurasian trade and travel | 25 | |
| 391353645 | monotheism | the belief in one god | 26 | |
| 391353646 | Monroe Doctrine (1823) | policy issued by the US in which it declared that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to colonization by other powers | 27 | |
| 391353647 | monsoon | a seasonal wind | 28 | |
| 391353648 | mosque | the house of worship of followers of Islam | 29 | |
| 391353649 | Mughal dynasty | rulers who controlled most of India in the 16th and 17th centuries | 30 | |
| 391353650 | mulato (mulatto) | in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, a person of mixed African and European descent | 31 | |
| 391353651 | Muslim | "One who submits"; a follower of Islam | 32 | |
| 391353652 | mystery religion | during the Hellenistic Age, religons that promised their faithful followers eternity in a state of bliss | 33 |
