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| 12054497580 | Muslim mystics who were responsible for the spread of Islam to southeastern Asia. | sufis | 0 | |
| 12054503235 | The Islamic dynasty that succeeded the Umayyads as caliphs in 750 C.E. | Abbasid | 1 | |
| 12054509086 | Built in 7th century during the Sui dynasty and meant to link the northern and southern parts of China. | Grand Canal | 2 | |
| 12054514125 | Capital of the Abbasid dynasty. | Baghdad | 3 | |
| 12054518724 | The Chinese dynasty that succeeded the Sui in 618 C.E. | Tang | 4 | |
| 12054525526 | African societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power and authority associated with states. | Stateless societies | 5 | |
| 12054529598 | The extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara; a point of exchange between the forests of the south and northern Africa. | Sahel | 6 | |
| 12054529599 | The most famous of the overland trading routes established by pastoral nomads connecting the European; Indian and Chinese civilizations. | Silk Roads | 7 | |
| 12054539577 | The four regional Mongolian kingdoms that arose following the death of Chinggis Khan. | Khanates | 8 | |
| 12054545810 | The holy book containing Allah's revelations to Muhammad. | Quran | 9 | |
| 12054550322 | The most revered religious shrine in pre-Islamic Arabia which was later incorporated as an important shrine in Islam. | Kaba | 10 | |
| 12054550323 | The sect of Islam that backed the Umayyads. | Sunnis | 11 | |
| 12054556545 | An attempt to remake the Japanese monarch into an absolute Chinese-style emperor; including attempts to create a professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army. | Taika Reforms | 12 | |
| 12054556546 | A heavy plow introduced in northern Europe during the Middle Ages; it permitted deeper cultivation of heavier soils. | Mold board | 13 | |
| 12054567961 | A special merchant class in Aztec society that specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items. | Pochteca | 14 | |
| 12054567962 | A group of clans centered at Cuzco that were able to create an empire incorporating various Andean cultures. | Inca | 15 | |
| 12054574343 | Chinese ships equipped that were the dominant force in the Asian seas east of the Malayan peninsula. | Junks | 16 | |
| 12054574344 | Eastern Roman emperor from 525-565 C.E. who issued the most famous compilation of Roman law. | Justinian | 17 | |
| 12054585866 | In feudalistic societies, members of the military elite who received land or benefice from a lord in return for military service and loyalty. | Vassals | 18 | |
| 12054585867 | The Incan practice of descent whereby all titles and political power went to the successor, but wealth and land remained in the hands of the male descendants for support of the cult of the dead Inca's mummy. | Split inheritance | 19 | |
| 12054592729 | Great Charter issued by King John in 1215; confirmed feudal rights against monarchical claims. | Magna Carta | 20 | |
| 12054602583 | Turkic people who advanced from strongholds in Asia Minor during the 1350s; conquered large parts of the Balkans and captured Constantinople in 1453. | Ottomans | 21 | |
| 12054616063 | A series of military adventures initially launched by western Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslims; later used for other purposes such as commercial wars and extermination of heresy. | crusades | 22 | |
| 12054652326 | Elected Khan of the Mongol tribes in 1206, he was responsible for conquest of the northern kingdoms of China and territories as far west as the Abbasid regions. | Chingghis Khan | 23 | |
| 12054652327 | The eastern half of the Roman Empire following the collapse of the western half of the old empire. | Byzantine Empire | 24 | |
| 12054660381 | Clans in Aztec society, later expanded to include residential groups that distributed land and provided labor and warriors. | Calpulli | 25 | |
| 12054672749 | The Tang empress who supported the Buddhist establishment and tried to elevate Buddhism to a state religion. | Empress Wu | 26 | |
| 12054699229 | Name of the plague that struck Europe in the 14th century; it significantly reduced Europe's population and greatly affected the social structure. | Black Death | 27 | |
| 12054699230 | Mounted troops of Japanese warrior leaders who were loyal to their local lords and not the emperor. | Samuri | 28 | |
| 12054705381 | Arabic traveler who described African and Asian societies and cultures in his travel records. | Ibn Batuta | 29 | |
| 12063231018 | A revival of ancient Confucian teachings; the emphasis on tradition and hostillity to foreign systems made Chinese rulers and bureaucrats less receptive to outside ideas and influences. | Neo-Confucianism | 30 | |
| 12063235804 | The supreme God in Islam. | Allah | 31 | |
| 12063239506 | Chinese Muslim admiral who commanded a series of Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and Red Sea trade expeditions between 1405 and 1435. | Zheng he | 32 | |
| 12063244789 | The royal house of the Franks after the 8th century until their replacement in the 10th century. | Carolingians | 33 | |
| 12063248537 | The dynasty that succeeded the Han in China. | Sui | 34 | |
| 12063253100 | The system of aquatic agriculture used by the Aztecs. | Chinampas | 35 | |
| 12063253101 | Mughal ruler who attempted to create a new religion to bind the Muslim and Hindu populations of India. | akbar | 36 | |
| 12063260590 | The political and theological division of Islam that were followers of Ali. | Shiites | 37 | |
| 12063260591 | A system that described economic relations between landlords and their peasant laborers during the Middle Ages. | Manoralism | 38 | |
| 12063271301 | Pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca to worship at the Ka'ba. | Hajj | 39 |
