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3526150261GriotsAfrican story teller, advisor, and historian.0
3526150262GuildsEconomic associations between people in the same businesses or craft.1
3526150263Marco Polo13th century traveler who stayed at the courts of Kubilai Khan for seventeen years.2
3526214825Mansa MusaKing of Mali, whose famous hajj caused inflation because of the gold he distributed along his way to Mecca.3
3526232794VikingsScandinavian people who raided Europe between the 8th and 10th centuries.4
3526246097Ibn BattutaMuslim traveler 14th century, who wrote about the world of Islam. Morocco to south east Asia.5
3526261236SwahiliAfrican language derived from Bantu, Arabic and Persian.6
3526271408IslamMonotheistic religion with 5 pillars founded in 622.7
3526287812SyncretismThe combining of two different things to make something new.8
35262987805 Pillars of Islam1. One god 2. Prayer five times a day 3. Charity 4. Ramadan 5. The Hajj9
3526333992Genghis KahnThe inferior of the Mongols.10
3526340112TributeA payment to a government, could be labor or good.11
3526345903SufisMuslim mystics who helped to spread Islam to India and S.E. Asia12
3526438411ChinampasArtificial islands on which mesoamericans grew crops.13
3526448637Indian Ocean Trading NetworkTrade network which included east Africa, the middle east, India, south east Asia and China.14
3526457323AztecMesoamerican kingdom which built its capitol, Tenochtitlan, on a lake. Conquered by Cortez in 1519.15
3526498090Zheng HeChinese admiral who traveled to Africa in the 15th century, he used 100 yard long treasure junks.16
3526508359Gun PowderInvented in China during the Song Dynasty.17
3526513621The Great SchismA division between the western Christian church and the eastern (orthodox) church in 1054.18
3526526651MongolsNomadic group unified in the 13th century. Created the largest land empire to that time.19
3526535907RenaissanceThe reawakening of eastern Europe, the revival of Roman art and ideas.20
3526546772Silk RoadAncient trade route running from China, to the central Asia, the middle east and the Mediterranean.21
3526555053Black Death14th century pandemic which came from China and killed at least one fourth of the Europeans.22
3526563539MaliWest African kingdom established by Sundiata and later lead by Mansa Musa in the fourteenth century.23
3526578877Joan of ArcFrench leader who helped to expel the English but was burned at stake in 143124
3526601151IncaSouth American kingdom known for building a vast systems of roads, conquered by Pizarro in 1532.25
3526616685Golden HordeMongol empire which occupied Russia from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century.26
3526629915HumanismWestern European movement which stressed the power and beauty of the mind, 14th century.27
3526642920Byzantine EmpireThe remainder of the Roman Empire in the east, it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.28
3526653107FeudalismA political system based on rigid social classes, loyalty and the granting of land to nobles and warriors.29
3526661843GhanaWest African kingdom which traded gold for salt, 16th through 13th centuries.30
3526671396CaliphA spiritual and political leader of Islam claiming succession from Muhammad.31
3526678206MamluksSlave soldiers who converted to Islam, They rose to power in Egypt. Stopped the Mongols 13th century.32
3526794445CrusadesAn attempt to take the "holy land" from the Muslims. Resulted in the spread of ideas to Europe.33
3526804145Neo ConficianismA revival of traditions and beliefs during the Tang and Song, which effected negatively.34
3526808564SamariThe equivalent of the knight in Europe.35
3526813585ConstantinopleCapitol of the Byzantine Empire, conquered by the Ottomans in 1453.36
3526821040SultanateA Muslim government.37
3526824724Trans-Saharan Trading NetworkTrade route centered on salt and gold.38
3526826415QuipuA system of knotted yarn used by the Inca to communicate across the empire.39

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