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| 62044737 | Sui Dynasty | The short dynasty between the Han and the Tang; built the Grand Canal, strengthened the government, and introduced Buddhism to China | 0 | |
| 62044738 | Tang Dynasty | dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria | 1 | |
| 62044739 | Grand Canal | an inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China | 2 | |
| 62044740 | Annam | a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea | 3 | |
| 62044741 | Shinto | the ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma | 4 | |
| 62044742 | Celts | Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. they spread as far as Anatolia in the east, Spain and the British Isles in the west, onquered by Romans (90) | 5 | |
| 62044743 | Goths | a heterogeneous East Germanic tribe that originated in semi-legendary Scandza, believed to be located somewhere in modern Götaland and that a Gothic population crossed the Baltic Sea before the 2nd century | 6 | |
| 62044744 | Justinian Code | the legal code of ancient Rome | 7 | |
| 62044745 | iconoclasm | the attacking of widely accepted ideas, beliefs | 8 | |
| 62044746 | Orthodoxy | a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards | 9 | |
| 62044747 | Carolingians | Royal house of Franks after 8th century until their replacement in 10th century. | 10 | |
| 62044748 | Charlemagne | King of the Franks who conquered much of Western Europe, great patron of leterature and learning | 11 | |
| 62044749 | Carolingian renaissance | Charlemagne's efforts led to the revival of learning and culture, rebirth | 12 | |
| 62044750 | Quran | the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina | 13 | |
| 62044751 | Mecca | the holiest city of Islam; Muhammad's birthplace | 14 | |
| 62044752 | Ka'aba | (Islam) a black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine | 15 | |
| 62044753 | hajj | the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Qadah | 16 | |
| 62044754 | jihad | a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | 17 | |
| 62044755 | Dar al-Islam | a term used by Muslim scholars to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely. | 18 | |
| 62044756 | hijra | The Hijra is the migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers to the city of Medina in 622 CE | 19 | |
| 62044757 | Sunni | one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam | 20 | |
| 62044758 | Shi'a | the branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad | 21 | |
| 62044759 | Ali | the fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shiites | 22 | |
| 62044760 | imam | Muslim prayer leader | 23 | |
| 62044761 | mahdi | The prophesied redeemer of Islam who will stay on earth seven, nine, or nineteen years before the coming of the day, | 24 | |
| 62044762 | Muhammed | The prophet and founder of Islam | 25 | |
| 62044763 | haditha | a city in the western Iraqi Al Anbar Governorate, about 240 km northwest of Baghdad; predominantly Sunni Muslims | 26 | |
| 62044764 | Ummayyad | Clan of Quraysh that dominated politics and commercial economy of Mecca. | 27 | |
| 62044765 | Abbasid | The dynasty that came after the Umayyads. Devoted their energy to trade, scholorship, and the arts. | 28 | |
| 62044766 | Fatamids | moved trading center to cairo | 29 | |
| 62044767 | Seljuk Turks | nomadic Turks from Asia who conquered Baghdad in 1055 and allowed the caliph to remain only as a religious leader. they governed strictly | 30 | |
| 62044768 | ulama | Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward, the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. (p. 238) | 31 | |
| 62044769 | sufis | a mystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, and a simple life | 32 | |
| 62044770 | Delhi Sultanate | A Muslim leader of Ghur who defeated Hindu armies made Delhi, the third largest city of India, his capital. | 33 | |
| 62044771 | Ghana | a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea | 34 | |
| 62044772 | Mali | a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa | 35 | |
| 62044773 | Sundiata | the founder of Mali empire. He crushed his enemies and won control of the gold trade routes | 36 | |
| 62044774 | 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 | 37 | |
| 62044775 | dhimmi | Literally "people of the book"; applied as inclusive term to Jews and Christians in Islamic territories; later extended to Zoroastrians and even Hindus & Buddhists | 38 | |
| 62044776 | crusade | any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11-13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims | 39 | |
| 62044777 | caliph | the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | 40 | |
| 62044778 | Abu Bakr | first caliph after death of muhammad | 41 | |
| 62044779 | free market economy | an economic system in which decisions on the three key economic questions are based on voluntary exchange in markets | 42 | |
| 62044780 | Tenochitilan | capital city of the Aztecs | 43 | |
| 62044781 | sahel | Belt south of the Sahara; literally 'coastland' in Arabic. (p. 215) | 44 | |
| 62044782 | Songhay | Sucessor of Mali; dominated middle reaches of the Niger valley; capital at Gao | 45 | |
| 62044783 | Axum | trading center, and powerful ancient kingdom in northern present-day Ethiopia | 46 | |
| 62044784 | Great Zimbabwe | City, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state. (p. 385) | 47 | |
| 62044785 | jong | ? | 48 | |
| 62044786 | Marco Polo | Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade. | 49 | |
| 62044787 | Song Dynasty | the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279 | 50 | |
| 62044788 | Pax Mongolica | -Mongol Peace-used to describe the eased communication and commerce the unified administration helped to create | 51 | |
| 62044789 | Ibn Buttuta | A native of Tangier in North Africa, he traveled for 27 years, visiting most of the countries in the Islamic world. Mali's justice system greatly impressed him. | 52 | |
| 62044790 | Temujin/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. Known as Temujin before his rise to power | 53 | |
| 62044791 | Black Death | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe | 54 | |
| 62044792 | Kublai Khan | Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China | 55 | |
| 62044793 | Vikings | Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia | 56 | |
| 62044794 | 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 | 57 | |
| 62044795 | William the Conqueror | duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England | 58 | |
| 62044796 | Battle of Lepanto | Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope | 59 | |
| 62044797 | guilds | Association of merchants or artisans who cooperated to protect their economic interests | 60 | |
| 62044798 | feudalism | the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C | 61 |
