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| 7762156270 | Mongols | a people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire, living as nomads in Northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan, linking Western and eastern Eurasia | 0 | |
| 7762156271 | Chinggis Khan | the title of Temujin when he ruled the Mongols (1206-1227). It means "oceanic" or "universal leader". Chinggis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire. | 1 | |
| 7762156272 | nomadism | a way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water. | 2 | |
| 7762156273 | Yuan Empire | empire created in China by Kubilai Khan | 3 | |
| 7762156274 | bubonic plauge | a bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans; humans in the late stages of the illness can spread it by coughing. This disease contributed to the high mortality rate during the time | 4 | |
| 7762156275 | il-Khan | a secondary khan based in Persia. the il-khans khanate was founded by Hulagu (grandson to Genghis). This khanate controlled much of Iran and Iraq. | 5 | |
| 7762156276 | Golden Horde | Mongol Khanate founded by Batu (grandson to Genghis). It was based in Southern Russia and adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. AKA the Kipchak Horde | 6 | |
| 7762156277 | Timur | member of a prominent family in the Mongol Chagatai Khanate. He gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. His ancestors maintained his empire for almost a century and founded the Mughal Empire in India. | 7 | |
| 7762156278 | Rashid al-Din | Adviser to the il-khan ruler Ghazan. | 8 | |
| 7762156279 | Nasir al-Din Tusi | Persian mathematician and cosmetologist. He founded an academy that provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped inspire the Copernican model of the solar system. | 9 | |
| 7762156280 | tsar | Russian reference to monarch | 10 | |
| 7762156281 | Ottoman Empire | Islamic State founded by Osman in north-western Anatolia around 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul from 1453 to 1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe. | 11 | |
| 7762156282 | Khubilai Khan | last of the Mongol Great Khans and founder of the Yuan empire | 12 | |
| 7762156283 | lama | a word for teacher in Tibetan Buddhism | 13 | |
| 7762156284 | Bejing | was the Yuan capital. | 14 | |
| 7762156285 | Ming Empire | Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. | 15 | |
| 7762156286 | Yongle | the third emperor of the Ming Empire. He sponsored the building of the Forbidden City, the expeditions of Zheng He and the reopening of China's borders to trade and travel. | 16 | |
| 7762156287 | 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 Indian Ocean, from South-east Asia to Africa. | 17 | |
| 7762156288 | Choson | the Choson dynasty ruled Korea from the fall of the Koryo kingdom to the colonization of Korea by Japan. | 18 | |
| 7762156289 | kamikaze | the "divine wind" which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281 | 19 |
