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| 3810572774 | "age-set" | Among the Masai, a group of boys united by a common initiation ceremony, who then moved together through the various "age-grades," or ranks, of Masai life. | 0 | |
| 3810572775 | Black Death | 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. | 1 | |
| 3810572776 | Chinggis Khan | Title meaning "universal ruler" that was given to the Mongol leader Temujin in 1206 after he united the Mongols | 2 | |
| 3810572777 | "fictive kinship" | Common form of tribal bonding in nomadic societies in which allies are designated and treated as blood relatives. | 3 | |
| 3810572778 | Ghazan Khan | Il-khan (subordinate khan) of Persia who ruled from 1295 to 1304; he is noted for his efforts to repair the Mongol damage to Persia. | 4 | |
| 3810572779 | Hulegu Khan | Grandson of Chinggis Khan (ca. 1217-1265) who became the first il-khan (subordinate khan) of Persia. | 5 | |
| 3810572780 | Karakorum | Capital of the Mongol Empire. | 6 | |
| 3810572781 | khagan | Supreme ruler of a Turkic nomadic confederation. | 7 | |
| 3810572782 | Khanbalik | The "city of the khan," founded as a new capital city for the Mongols after their conquest of China; now the city of Beijing. | 8 | |
| 3810572783 | Khubilai Khan | Grandson of Chinggis Khan who ruled China from 1271 to 1294. | 9 | |
| 3810572784 | Kipchak Khanate | 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." | 10 | |
| 3810572785 | Masai | Nomadic cattle-keeping people of what is now Kenya and Tanzania. | 11 | |
| 3810572786 | Modun | Great ruler of the Xiongnu Empire (r.210-174B.C.E.) who created a centralized and hierarchical political system. | 12 | |
| 3810572787 | 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. | 13 | |
| 3810572788 | pastoralism | Way of life in which people depend on the herding of domesticated animals for their food. | 14 | |
| 3810572789 | Temujin | Birth name of the Mongol leader better known as Chinggis Khan (1162-1227). | 15 | |
| 3810572790 | Turks | Turkic speakers from Central Asia, originally nomads, who spread westward into the Near East and into India; they created a series of nomadic empires between 552 and 965 C.E. but had a more lasting impact on world history when they became dominant in the Islamic heartland and founded a series of states and empires there. | 16 | |
| 3810572791 | Xiongnu | People of the Mongolian steppe lands north of China who formed a large-scale nomadic empire in the third and second centuries B.C.E. | 17 | |
| 3810572792 | Yuan dynasty | Mongol dynasty that ruled China from 1271 to 1368; its name means "great beginnings." | 18 | |
| 3810574551 | Bedouins | "Desert-Dwelling" Arabs that were common amongst the terrain of the Arabian Peninsula | 19 | |
| 3810576471 | Marco Polo | Venetian traveler and merchant who served in the court of the Great Khan in the late 13th century | 20 | |
| 3810578888 | Golden Horde | Also called the Kipchak Khanate; it was a Mongolian state near the Volga River along the Russian exterior between the mid 1200s to 1300s; its ranks consisted of a combination of Mongolian and Turkic soldiers | 21 | |
| 3810582672 | Sultan | Noble title of Turkish leaders within the Seljuk (TURKIC) and later Ottoman Empires, which gradually replaced the older Turkic title of Kaghan | 22 | |
| 3810585080 | Francesco Petrarch | Italian Renaissance scholar who wrote about the overall effects of the Black Death on European society, often called the "father of Italian Renaissance Humanism" | 23 | |
| 3810587819 | pax Mongolica | The Mongol Peace; it refers to the stabilizing effects of the various Mongol conquests across the Eurasian regions during the height of the Mongolian Empire; solidified under the leadership of Khubilai Khan | 24 | |
| 3810594443 | Berbers | North African traders, who were Islamic converts that utilized camel caravans to facilitate varying degrees of pastoralism and trade along the Saharan Desert | 25 | |
| 3810597413 | Mamluks | Turkic military slaves of the old Abbasid Caliphate, who frequently clashed with Mongolian forces in and around the capital city of BAGHDAD in the 10th century | 26 |
