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| 272714714 | Bubonic plague | A deadly sickness spread throught Europe in the 1340's by fleas on rats; also called the balck death | 0 | |
| 272714715 | Emissaries | someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else | 1 | |
| 272714716 | Ghenghis khan | United nomadic tribes. Created the greatest Mongol empire | 2 | |
| 272714717 | Istanbul | the largest city and former capital of Turkey | 3 | |
| 272714718 | Kamikaze | a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II | 4 | |
| 272714719 | Khan | a Mongol ruler | 5 | |
| 272714720 | Khubilai khan | Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294) and founder of the Yuan Empire. (p. 351) | 6 | |
| 272714721 | Marco polo | Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324) | 7 | |
| 272714722 | Osma | Built an empire | 8 | |
| 272714723 | Ottoman empire | a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe | 9 | |
| 272714724 | Pax mongolica | peaceful period from mid 1200s to mid 1300s in Asia | 10 | |
| 272714725 | Saljuks | A rising power of mulim turks who gained contol of Palistine | 11 | |
| 272714726 | Shamans | religious specialists who possessed supernatural powers, communicated with the gods and nature spirits, invoked divine aid on behalf of their communities, and informed their companions of their gods' will | 12 | |
| 272714727 | Sultan | the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) | 13 | |
| 272714728 | Sultan mehmed II | Ottoman ruler who sacked Constantinople, effectively ending the Byzantine empire. Renamed it Istanbul and then absorbed the lands of Byzantium. | 14 | |
| 272714729 | Tamerlane the the conqueror | Conquered many lands | 15 | |
| 272714730 | Turks | a member of the Turkish-speaking ethnic group in Turkey, or, formerly, in the Ottoman Empire | 16 | |
| 272714731 | Yan dynasty | AD 1279-1368 | 17 | |
| 273515047 | 4 Mongol empires | After chuggis khan died his sons divided the regions into 4 sections | 18 | |
| 274017052 | Bantu migrations | farmers and herders who migrated south and spread language and skills-1000BC - 1000AD | 19 | |
| 274017053 | Diviners | ritual practitioners who specialize in the art of divination | 20 | |
| 274017054 | Griots | a storyteller in West Africa | 21 | |
| 274017055 | 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. | 22 | |
| 274017056 | Kin | group of people related by blood or marriage | 23 | |
| 274017057 | Kingdom of ghana | by the 700s, this was a kingdom and its rulers were growing rich by taxing the goods that traders carried through their territory. | 24 | |
| 274017058 | Kingdom of mali | By 1235 this emerged from Mande speaking people who lived south of Ghana. | 25 | |
| 274017059 | 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 | 26 | |
| 274017060 | Sahel | a strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas | 27 | |
| 274017061 | Swahili | the most widely spoken Bantu languages | 28 | |
| 274017062 | Timbuktu | a city in central Mali near the Niger river | 29 | |
| 274017063 | Chivalry | courtesy towards women | 30 | |
| 274017064 | 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 | 31 | |
| 274017065 | Eucharist | a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine | 32 | |
| 274017066 | Excommunicate | exclude from a church or a religious community | 33 | |
| 274189220 | St. Thomas Aquinas | well-known mendicant saints in the Middle Ages. was brilliant and was taught by St. Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus). his most famous work is the Summa Thologiae. mystic and scholar | 34 | |
| 274189221 | Serfs | a person who lived on and farmed a lords land in feudal times | 35 | |
| 274189222 | Troubadours | Traveling poet-musicians at the castles and courts. | 36 | |
| 274189223 | Urbanization | the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban | 37 | |
| 274189224 | Vassals | a person holding a fief | 38 | |
| 274189225 | Virgin Mary | the mother of Jesus | 39 | |
| 274189226 | William the Conqueror | duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England | 40 | |
| 274189227 | Zealots | Jews that rose up in armed rebellion against Rome in 66ce; unsuccessful, and Jewish Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed | 41 | |
| 274189228 | Aboriginal People | People who migrated to Australia from Asia at least 40,000 years ago; the original settlers of the land. | 42 | |
| 274189229 | Chinampas | Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields. | 43 | |
| 274189230 | Inca | 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 | 44 | |
| 274189231 | Mesoamerica | Mexico and Central America | 45 | |
| 274189232 | Mexica | The name given to themselves by the Aztec people | 46 | |
| 274189233 | Quipu | knotted cords of various lengths and colors used by the inca to keep financial records | 47 | |
| 274189234 | Subjugation | forced submission to control by others | 48 | |
| 274189235 | Toltecs | Powerful postclassic empire in central Mexico (900-1168 C.E.). It influenced much of Mesoamerica. Aztecs claimed ties to this earlier civilization. (p. 305) | 49 | |
| 274189236 | Little Ice Age 1300 CE | Small ice age in 1300 CE | 50 | |
| 274189237 | Mandarins | members of the elite class of civil servents in Chinese government | 51 | |
| 274189238 | Renaissance | the revival of learning and culture | 52 | |
| 274189239 | Humanists | People who specialize in studying the grammar, history, poetry, and rhetoric. Taught life should be meaningful. Displayed a critical approach to learning. | 53 | |
| 276616617 | Frederick Barbarossa | Ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; went on the third crusade but failed when he fell into a river and died. | 54 | |
| 276616618 | Guilds | Association of merchants or artisans who cooperated to protect their economic interests | 55 | |
| 276616619 | Hanseatic League | a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas | 56 | |
| 276616620 | Heresy | a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion | 57 | |
| 276616621 | High middle ages | the period from 1000 to 1300 in which the church had a key role shaping the new world | 58 | |
| 276616622 | Holy roman empire | the lands ruled by Charlemagne | 59 | |
| 276616623 | Iberian Peninsula | a peninsula in southwestern Europe | 60 | |
| 276616624 | Investiture contest | A struggle between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope over who nominates clergymen. The Pope eventually won this struggle. | 61 | |
| 276616625 | Leif erickson | viking explorer who reached North America around 1000, before Columbus | 62 | |
| 276616626 | Manors | large farm estates of the Middle Ages that were owned by nobles who ruled over the peasants living in the land | 63 | |
| 276616627 | Normans | a member of that branch of the Northmen or Scandinavians who in the 10th century conquered Normandy | 64 | |
| 276616628 | Paganism | the profession of no religion | 65 | |
| 276616629 | Reconquista | The effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain, lasting from the 1100s until 1492. | 66 | |
| 276616630 | Relics | Valued holy objects from the past | 67 | |
| 276616631 | Saints | followers of christ who lived lives of holiness on earth and now share in eternal life with God in heaven | 68 |
