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5136030429MercantileRelated to commerce or trade0
5136030430Conduitsa channel for conveying cultural diffusion between socieities1
5136030431Pastoral GroupsNomadic groups that domesticated animals and sustained trade networks2
5136030432Interregionalmovement from one region of a country to another3
5136030433MuhammadFounder of Islam4
5136030434DiffusionMovement of culture from one area to another5
5136030435Silk RoadsA system of ancient caravan routes across Central Asia, along which traders carried luxury goods.6
5136030436Mediterranean Sea LanesTrade routes that connected Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa7
5136030437Trans-Saharan Trade Routestrade route stretching across the sahara, predominantly involve trade of gold and salt8
5136030438Indian Ocean Sea Laneslanes throughout the Indian Ocean connecting East Africa, southern Arabia, the Persian Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, and southern China9
5136030439Swahili City-StatesCity-states along the coast of Eastern Africa10
5136030440Veniceimportant Italian port for trade11
5136030441TenochtitlanMexica city, capital of the Aztec Empire12
5136030442Mesoamerica"Middle America" the region extending from modern-day Mexico through Central America13
5136030443Caravanseraisystem of rest stops caravans used for supplies and safety14
5136030444CompassDirectional tool developed by the Han Dynasty in East Asia15
5136030445AstrolabeAn instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets16
5136030446Creditthe ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future.17
5136030447Monetizationestablishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country18
5136030448Bills of ExchangeCertificate saying you'll pay back a certain amount by a particular date19
5136030449Banking HouseThese European innovations developed during the Middle Ages to aid trade and manage credit, checks, and bills of exchange.20
5136030450Hanseatic LeagueAn economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century.21
5136030451Infrastructurethe basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.22
5136030452Grand CanalThe 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.23
5136030453Byzantine EmpireThe eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived after the fall of the Western Empire at the end of the 5th century C.E. Its capital was Constantinople, named after the Emperor Constantine.24
5136030454CaliphatesThe political-religious state comprising the Muslim community and the lands and the peoples under its dominion during the centuries after Muhammad's death.25
5136030455MongolsPeople from Central Asia when united ended up creating the largest single land empire in history.26
5136030456Linguisticpertaining to language27
5136030457LongshipsNarrow boats that allowed the vikings to sail down thin rivers, and pillage inland villages28
5136030458VikingsInvaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia29
5136030459ArabsEthnic group native to the Middle East30
5136030460BerbersA member of a North African, primarily Muslim people living in settled or nomadic tribes from Morocco to Egypt31
5136030461SteppeA dry, grassy, treeless plain found in Asia and eastern Europe.32
5136030462BantuThe people who spread throughout Africa spreading agriculture, language, and iron.33
5136030463Maritimerelating to the sea34
5136030464Polynesiananything dealing with island in pacific-- language,culture,people35
5136030465IslamA monotheistic religion based on the belief that there is one God, Allah, and that Muhammad was Allah's prophet.36
5136030466Arabian PeninsulaArea of the middle east that is the birthplace of Islam and home of the Arabs37
5136030467MerchantA person who makes money by selling goods38
5136030468MissionaryAn individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion.39
5136030469Diasporic Communitiesimmigrants who have relocated from their ancestral homelands and retain their distinct cultural identities as ethnic minority groups in their new host countries40
5136030470SogdianAn Iranian People from central Asia. Between the fourth and ninth centuries they were probably the most important merchants along the Silk Roads41
5136030471Ibn BattutaMoroccan 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.42
5136030472Marco PoloVenetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade.43
5136030473XuanzangA famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator who described the interaction between China and India in the early Tang period. He became famous for his 17 year trip to India and back.44
5136030474NeoconfucianismNeo-Confucianism developed both as a renaissance of traditional Confucian ideas, and as a reaction to the ideas of Buddhism and Daoism45
5136030475MexicaIndigenous peoples to northern Mesoamerica46
5136030476ToltecNomadic peoples from beyond the northern frontier of sedentary agriculture in Mesoamerica; established capital at Tula after migration into central Mesoamerican plateau; strongly militaristic ethic, including cult of human sacrifice.47
5136030477IberiaPeninsula in southwestern Europe occupied by Spain and Portugal48
5136030478al-AndalusIslamic Spain49
5136030479PathogenAn organism that causes disease50
5136030480Epidemic DiseaseMany people acquire the disease in a particular location51
5136030481Bubonic Plaguedisease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism. Rats, fleas.52
5136030482Dar al-Islama term used by Muslim scholars to refer to those countries where Muslims can practice their religion freely53
5136030483Agrarianconcerning farms, farmers, or the use of land54
5136030484LegitimacyAcceptance of a ruler or government by the people.55
5136030485Tributary SystemA system in which areas not directly controlled by an empire give gifts or taxes in exchange for peace.56
5136030486KhanatesFour regional Mongol kingdoms that arose following the death of Chinggis Khan.57
5136030487FeudalismA political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land58
5136030488AbbasidsA dynasty that ruled much of the Muslim Empire from 750 to about 1250.59
5136030489SultanateLand ruled by a sultan60
5136030490CrusadesA series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule.61
5136030491Zheng HeAn imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.62
5136030492UrbanizationAn increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.63
5136030493DemographicCharacteristics such as age, sex, income, location, education, and religion64
5136030494Coerced LaborWhen people are forced to work either as slaves or serfs.65
5136030495ChinampaRaised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.66
5136030496Waru waruAn Incan agricultural technique in which water creates a channel around growing crops67
5136030497Terracingcreating flat platforms in the hillside that provide a level planting surface, which reduces soil runoff from the slope.68
5136030498Textilescloth items69
5136030499Porcelaina thin, beautiful pottery invented in China70
5136030500GuildA medieval organization of crafts workers or trades people.71
5136030501SerfdomA type of labor commonly used in feudal systems in which the laborers work the land in return for protection but they are bound to the land and are not allowed to leave or to peruse their a new occupation. This was common in early Medeival Europe as well as in Russia until the mid 19th century.72
5136030502Mit'alabor tax system used by the Incas73
5136030503Foot BindingPractice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household.74

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