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| 240678390 | Nomadism | A way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water. (p. 326) | 0 | |
| 240678391 | Yuan Empire | Empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan. (p. 349) | 1 | |
| 240678392 | Il Khan | A 'secondary' or 'peripheral' khan based in Persia. The Il-khans' khanate was founded by H?leg?, a grandson of Genghis Khan, was based at Tabriz in modern Azerbaijan. It controlled much of Iran and Iraq. (p. 333) | 2 | |
| 240678393 | Golden Horde | Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde. (p. 333) | 3 | |
| 240678394 | Raskid al-Din | 12th century Syrian religious figure and leader of resistance to the Crusades ,12th century Persian royal panegyrist and epistolograph 13th century Persian physician | 4 | |
| 240678395 | Nasir al-Din Tusi | Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system. (p. 337) | 5 | |
| 240678396 | Alexander Nevskii | Prince of Novgorod (r. 1236-1263). He submitted to the invading Mongols in 1240 and received recognition as the leader of the Russian princes under the Golden Horde. | 6 | |
| 240678397 | Ottoman Empire | Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia ca. 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453 to 1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe. | 7 | |
| 240678398 | Lama | a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism Animal | 8 | |
| 240678399 | Ming Empire | Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. The Ming emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. (355) | 9 | |
| 240678400 | Yongle | Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424), the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City, a huge encyclopedia project, the expeditions of Zheng He, and the reopening of China's borders to trade and travel (355) | 10 | |
| 240678401 | Zheng He | An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. (pp. 355, 422) | 11 | |
| 240678402 | Yi | Korean dynasty that succeeded Koryo dynasty following period of Mongol invasions; established in 1392; ruled Korea to 1910; restored aristocratic dominance and Chinese influence. | 12 | |
| 240678403 | Ashikaga Shogunate | The second of Japan's military governments headed by a shogun (a military ruler). Sometimes called the Muromachi Shogunate. (p. 365), (1338 - 1573) during this shogunate, many shoguns were fighting for power; the laws were unclear fuedal warfare; armies of samurai protected the country; they attack China (Ming Dynasty) and cause the Chinese to move inland | 13 | |
| 240678404 | Khan | an inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans, Title given to Mongol leaders, meaning "supreme ruler" | 14 | |
| 240678405 | Pax Mongolica | -Mongol Peace-used to describe the eased communication and commerce the unified administration helped to create | 15 | |
| 240678406 | Bubonic Plague | Also called the Black Death was a deadly disease that spread through Europe and killed one out of every three people | 16 | |
| 240678407 | Kublai Khan | Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China | 17 | |
| 240678408 | Genghis Khan | Mongolian Emperor whose empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean (1162-1227) | 18 | |
| 240678409 | Tamerlane | Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405) | 19 |
