| A | B |
|---|
| Ivan the Great | Rus leader who ousted the Mongols |
| Ivan the Terrible | Russian leader who claimed the title of Czar |
| Marco Polo | European trader who spent a significant amount of time in China and then returned to Europe to tell his stories |
| Suleiman the Magnificent | Turk leader who extended the Turkish empire into Europe |
| Ghengis Khan | leader of the Mongols who conquered huge areas of Asia |
| Kublai Khan | leader of China who worked with Marco Polo |
| Constantine I | Roman Emperor who moved the capital to Constantinople |
| Theodora | leader of the Byzantine people who promoted women's rights and received foreign ambassadors |
| Justinian | great leader of the Byzantine Empire who created a code of laws still used in Europe today |
| Chandragupta Maurya | leader of India |
| Shogun | Japanese leader appointed by the emperor |
| Samurai | Japanese warriors |
| Shinto | Japanese religion based upon nature, consideres the emperor divine |
| Kami-kaze | divine wind that saved Japan from the Mongol forces |
| Hinduism | major religion of India |
| Buddhism | religion founded by Guatama which was accepted in China and Japan |
| Mongols | conquered most of the Asian world during the middle ages |
| Rus | people that settled near Kiev and traded between Byzantine and the Slavic people |
| Hagia Sophia | religious building in Constantinple built by Justinians |
| Grand Canal | connected two rivers in China in greatly improve trade |
| fresco | painting on wet plaster used by the Byzantine artists |
| icon | religious picture "window into heaven" |
| Truks | officially ended the Byzantine Empire |
| Great Wall | built to keep the invaders out of China |
