| A | B |
|---|
| Shinto and Buddhism | Religions found in Japan |
| Paper, Silk, Porcelain, Compass | Goods traded from China |
| Gold and Salt | Importance to Trans-Saharan trade |
| Silk Roads | Linked Asia to Mediterranean Basin |
| Hinduism and Buddhism | Spread from India to Southeast Asia |
| Timbuktu | Center for trade and learning |
| Islam and animism | Religions practiced by West African Kingdoms |
| Ghana, Mali, Songhai | West African Kingdoms |
| Axum | African Christian kingdom |
| Mayans, Aztecs | Located in Mexico |
| Incas | Located in South America |
| Tenochtitlan | Capital of the Aztecs |
| Mayan | Chichen Itza |
| William the Conqueror | united most of England |
| Joan of Arc | helped unify France |
| Hundred Years War | fought between France and England |
| Crusades | stimulated trade with the Middle Eat or Arab world |
| MONGOLS | Invaded Russia, China, and Muslim states in Southwest Asia destroying cities and countryside |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Mona Lisa, Last Supper |
| Renaissance | Rebirth of classical knowledge of Greece and Rome |
| Magna Carta | Limited royal power of the king |
| Machiavelli | Absolute Power. wrote "The Prince" |
| Humanism | Worldly subjects; focus of the Renaissance |
| Printing Press | Invented by Johann Gutenberg; Spread of Gutenberg Bible |
| Thomas More | Wrote Utopia |
| Michelangelo | Painted Sistine Chapel and David |
| Petrarch | Renaissance writer and poet |
| Ivan the Great | Overthrew the rile of the Mongols; Centralized power in the hands of the czar |
| Orthodox Church | Helped unify Russia |
| Church Scholars | few that could read or write; worked in monasteries |
