| A | B |
|---|
| Tang & Song invention that changed the way wars were fought. | Gunpowder |
| Movable Type Printing | Made books cheaper / increase literacy rate |
| Compass | Helped sailors navigate |
| Yassa | Mongol legal system |
| Genghis Khan | United Mongol tribes |
| Kublai Khan | Introduced alphabet & paper money system |
| Brutal Emperor that encouraged religious tolerance and literacy | Genghis Khan |
| Trebuchet | Machine that is used to hurl rocks large distances over city walls |
| Marco Polo | Traveled to China and wrote a book about his adventures |
| Zheng He | Chinese Explorer |
| Isolate | To cut off |
| Ming viewed the Portuguese as | Barbarians |
| The Portuguese want to trade for | Silk and Porcelain |
| Kush | Became rich smelting iron |
| Axum | Conquered Kush to get to Nile River |
| Empire built on Trade | Axum |
| King Ezana adopted | Christianity |
| Muslim place of worship | Mosque |
| Avenue of the Baobabs | Found in in Madagascar |
| Home to the largest migration of mammals in the world | The Serengeti |
| Mount Kilimanjaro is located where? | Tanzania |
| Porcelain | Hard white ceramic mainly used for dishes |
| Calligraphy | The art of handwriting, often with brush and ink |
| Commercial | Having to do with the buying and selling of goods |
| Urbanization | Rapid growth of cities |
| Innovations | New inventions or ways of doing something |
| Alchemist | Person that practiced an unscientific form of chemistry, often in search of a substance that would allow people to live forever or one that would turn common metals into gold |
| Saltpeter | A chemical compound, potassium nitrate |
| Censors | An official who edits information that is not in keeping with what the government wants |
| Terraces | A horizontal ridge made on a hillside to keep moisture and soil for agriculture |
| Literacy Rate | The amount of people in a place who are able to read and write |
| Nomads | People who have no permanent home who travel from place to place |
| Khanate | The largest divisions of the Mongol Empire |
| Siege | A military operation in which a place is surrounded and cut off from outside supplies |
| Contiguous | Sharing a common border |
| Black Death | A deadly disease in the 1300s that formed, spread quickly, and killed millions of people |
| Plague | A contagious disease that spreads quickly and kills many people |
| Mausoleum | A building that houses a tomb |
| Traditional Economy | Economy where decisions as to what is to be produced, how, how much, and by whom are made at the local and family level |
| Stele | Monument made of stone; usually contains an inscription |
| Smelt | To separate iron from other minerals using high heat |
| Greco-Roman | Related to peoples of ancient Greek and Roman cultures |
| Patriarch | The leader of the Christians in Axum |
| Cultural Diffusion | The transmission and blending of cultures over different civilizations |
| Griot | A storyteller and musician who preserves a tribe’s stories |
| Savannah | A grassy area with a temperate climate and small trees |
| Rainforest | A very wet, dense forest |
| Mosques | Muslim places of worship |
| Monopoly | When one person or group controls a product or business |
| Pilgrimage | A journey to a specific place for religious reasons |
| Ecosystem | A community of living organisms that interact with each other |
| Predators | Animals that prey on others |
| Delta | Land that forms at the mouth of a river |
| Tributaries | Rivers that flow into or from a larger river |
