Terms : Hide Images
| 5505971763 | mongols | A bomadic people who came from the steppes northwest of China | 0 | |
| 5505971764 | genghis khan | A Mongolian general and emperor of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, known for his military leadership and great cruelty. He conquered vast portions of northern China and southwestern Asia. |  | 1 |
| 5505971765 | nomadism | A way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water. |  | 2 |
| 5505971766 | yuan empire | 1271-1368 CE. Established when the Mongols conquered the Chinese Song Dynasty. Mongol reign short-lived, ending when the Mongols were driven from China in the 1300s. |  | 3 |
| 5505971767 | bubonic plague | disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism. Rats, fleas. |  | 4 |
| 5505971768 | Ashikaga Shogunate | Replaced the Kamakura regime in Japan, ruled from 1336 to 1573 CE, destroyed the rival Yoshino center of imperial authority |  | 5 |
| 5505971769 | il-khan | A 'secondary' or 'peripheral' khan based in Persia. The Il-khans' khanate was founded by Hulagu a grandson of Genghis Khan. It controlled much of Iran and Iraq | 6 | |
| 5505971770 | Kamakaze | a decisive factor in the Japanese success in repulsing the Mongol invasions. | 7 | |
| 5505971771 | 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. |  | 8 |
| 5505971772 | yi | end resistance, especially under pressure or force; the measurable productivity of a process |  | 9 |
| 5505971773 | timur | Sometimes known as Tamerlane, this was the Central Asian leader of a Mongol tribe who attempted to re-establish the Mongol Empire in the late 1300's. His empire included Persia (Iran) and many surrounding lands. He is the great great grandfather of Babur. who later founds the Mughal Empire in India. |  | 10 |
| 5505971774 | 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. |  | 11 |
| 5505971775 | rashid al-din | Doctory, historian and adviser to the Il-khans, created some of the most concise writing on the Mongol Empire |  | 12 |
| 5505971776 | yongle | Chinese Ming emperor who pushed foreign exploration and promoted cultural achievements such as the Yongle Encyclopedia. |  | 13 |
| 5505971777 | nasir al-din tusi | Adviser to the Il-khan ruler Ghazan, who converted to Islam on Rashid's advice. | 14 | |
| 5505971778 | 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. The later years of the Ming saw a slowdown in technological development and economic decline. |  | 15 |
| 5505971779 | alexander nevskii | prince of Novgorod; submitted to the invading Mongols in 1240 | 16 | |
| 5505971780 | beijing | China's northern capital, first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China. |  | 17 |
| 5505971781 | tsar | The Russian term for ruler or king; taken from the Roman word caesar. |  | 18 |
| 5505971782 | lama | In Tibetan Buddhism, a teacher. |  | 19 |
| 5505971783 | ottoman empire | Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453-1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe. |  | 20 |
| 5505971784 | 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. |  | 21 |
