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| 14865549264 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 0 | |
| 14865559762 | Modun | Great ruler of the Xiongnu Empire (r. 210-174 B.C.E.) who created a centralized and hierarchical political system. | 1 | |
| 14865566270 | Xiongnu | A confederation of nomadic peoples living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient China. Chinese rulers tried a variety of defenses and stratagems to ward off these 'barbarians,' as they called them, and dispersed them in 1st Century. (168) | 2 | |
| 14865571751 | Turks | A member of the Turkish-speaking ethnic group in Turkey, or, formerly, in the Ottoman Empire | 3 | |
| 14865578460 | Almoravid Empire | Emerging out of an Islamic reform movement among the Sanhaja Berber pastoralists in the eleventh century, the Almoravid Empire incorporated a large part of northwestern Africa with its capital in Marrakesh. In 1086 it crossed into southern Spain where it offered vigorous opposition to Christian efforts to conquer the region. The empire had collapsed by the mid-twelfth century. | 4 | |
| 14865589880 | Temujin/Chinggis Khan | Title meaning "universal ruler" that was given to this Mongol leader in 1206 after he united the Mongols. | 5 | |
| 14865596819 | The Mongol World War | Term used to describe half a century of military campaigns, massive killing, and empire building pursued by Chinggis Khan and his successors in Eurasia after 1209. | 6 | |
| 14865600949 | Yuan Dynasty China | Mongol dynasty that ruled China from 1271 to 1368; its name means "great beginnings." | 7 | |
| 14865607132 | Khubilai Khan | Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294). Ruled the Mongol Empire from China and was the founder of the Yuan Empire in China after defeating what was left of the Song Dynasty. | 8 | |
| 14865610561 | Hulegu | Grandson of Chinggis Khan and ruler of Ilkhan khanate; captured and destroyed Abbasid Baghdad. | 9 | |
| 14865623522 | Khutulun | A Mongol princess (ca. 1260-1306) whose exploits in battle and wrestling, along with her choice of husbands, provide insight into the relative freedom and influence of elite Mongol women in their societies. | 10 | |
| 14865628522 | Kipchak Khanate/Golden Horde | Name given to Russia by the Mongols after they conquered it and incorporated it into the Mongol Empire in the mid-thirteenth century; known to Russians as the "Khanate of the Golden Horde." | 11 | |
| 14865643988 | Black Death/Plague | Name later given to the massive plague pandemic that swept through Eurasia beginning in 1331; it is usually regarded as an outbreak of bubonic plague. | 12 |
