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| 251736953 | 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 | 0 | |
| 251736954 | Khubilai khan | Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294) and founder of the Yuan Empire. (p. 351) | 1 | |
| 251736955 | Khan | Title given to Mongol leaders, meaning "supreme ruler" | 2 | |
| 251736956 | Ghenghis khan | 1162-1227, Mongol conqueror of most of Asia and of E Europe to the Dnieper River | 3 | |
| 251736957 | 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. | 4 | |
| 251736958 | Saljuks | Established by Tughril Beg, grandson of Turkish khan, Seljuk, who had begun capturing lands in Central Asia. Became fervent partisans of Sunni Islam.This regime reunited most of the former Abbasid empire and took the lead in combating the enemies of Sunni Islam. | 5 | |
| 251736959 | Sultan | the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) | 6 | |
| 251736960 | Emissaries | messengers | 7 | |
| 251736961 | Yuan Dynasty | Dynasty in China set up by the Mongols under the leadership of Kublai Khan, replaced the Song (1279-1368) | 8 | |
| 251736962 | Kamikaze | a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II | 9 | |
| 251736963 | Mongol Empires | an empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, which reached its greatest territorial extent in the 13th century, encompassing the larger part of Asia and extending westward to the Dnieper River in eastern Europe. | 10 | |
| 251736964 | Bubonic plauge | A deadly sickness spread throught Europe in the 1340's by fleas on rats; also called the balck death | 11 | |
| 251736965 | Pax mongolica | -Mongol Peace-used to describe the eased communication and commerce the unified administration helped to create | 12 | |
| 251736966 | Ottoman empire | a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe | 13 | |
| 251736967 | Osama | -anti usa -god is supreme -spiritual language | 14 | |
| 251736968 | Istanbul | the largest city and former capital of Turkey | 15 | |
| 258293300 | Sahel | a strip of dry grasslands on the southern border of the Sahara; also known as "the shore of the desert" | 16 | |
| 258293301 | Timbuktu | City on the Niger River in the modern country of Mali. It was founded by the Tuareg as a seasonal camp sometime after 1000. As part of the Mali empire, Timbuktu became a major major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning (388 | 17 | |
| 258293302 | 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 | 18 | |
| 258293303 | 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. (p. 373) | 19 | |
| 258293304 | Bantu Migrations | migrated between about 1000 B.C. and A.D. 1000 (West African farmers and herders), languages spoken in central, east-central, and southern Africa | 20 | |
| 258293305 | Kin | group of people related by blood or marriage | 21 | |
| 258293306 | 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. | 22 | |
| 258293307 | Swahili | by the 700s, this was a kingdom and its rulers were growing rich by taxing the goods that traders carried through their territory. | 23 | |
| 258293308 | Diviners | ritual practitioners who specialize in the art of divination | 24 |
