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| 6052471934 | 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. | 0 | |
| 6052471935 | Baibars | (1223-1277) Commander of Mamluk forces at Ain Jalut in 1260; originally enslaved by Mongols and sold to Egyptians. | 1 | |
| 6052471936 | Berke | Believed that material objects only existed as ideas in the mind | 2 | |
| 6052471937 | Hulegu | Ruler of the Ilkhan khanate; grandson of Chinggis Khan; responsible for capture and destruction of Baghdad in 1257 | 3 | |
| 6052471938 | Ilkhanate | Mongol state that ruled Persia after abolition of the Abbasid empire in the thirteenth century | 4 | |
| 6052471939 | Kara Khitai Empire | An empire which had actually been established by Mongolian empire, Chinggis Khan mongols swiftly attacked it and annexed it. | 5 | |
| 6052471940 | Kagan | a title in the Mongolian language equal to the status of emperor and used to refer to someone who rules a khaganate or empire. The title was adopted by Ögedei Khan from the Turkic title kaɣan. | 6 | |
| 6052471941 | Khanates | Four regional Mongol kingdoms that arose following the death of Chinggis Khan. | 7 | |
| 6052471942 | Ming Dynasty | Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China. | 8 | |
| 6052471943 | 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. | 9 | |
| 6052471944 | Muhammad Shah II | Turkic ruler of Muslim Khwarazm kingdom; attempted to resist Mongol conquest; conquered in 1220 | 10 | |
| 6052471946 | White Lotus Society | Secret religious society dedicated to overthrow of Yuan dynasty in China; typical of peasant resistance to Mongol rule. Led a revolt against Qin Dynasty because of discontent with taxes. | 11 | |
| 6052471947 | Battle of Kulikova | Russian army victory over the forces of the Golden Horde; helped break Mongol hold over Russia. | 12 | |
| 6052471948 | Kublai Khan | (1215-1294) Grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China. | 13 | |
| 6052471949 | Yuan | (1279-1368 CE) The dynasty with Mongol rule in China; centralized with bureaucracy but structure is different: Mongols on top->Persian bureaucrats->Chinese bureaucrats. | 14 | |
| 6052471950 | Mamluks | Under the Islamic system of military slavery, Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state, ruling Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) | 15 | |
| 6052471951 | Batu | ruler of the golden horde; one of Chinggis Khan's grandsons; responsible for the invasion of Russia beginning in 1236. | 16 | |
| 6052471952 | Tumens | Basic fighting units of the Mongol forces; consisted of 10,000 cavalrymen; each unit was further divided into units of 1000, 100 and 10. | 17 | |
| 6052471953 | Chinggis Khan | Born in 1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all Mongol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China, territories as far west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227, prior to conquest of most of Islamic world. | 18 | |
| 6052471954 | Samarkand | Capitol of Timur-i Lang's Turkish empire | 19 | |
| 6052471955 | Kuriltai | Meeting of all Mongol chieftains at which the supreme ruler of all tribes was selected | 20 | |
| 6052471956 | Karakorum | Capital of the Mongol empire under Chinggis Khan, 1162 - 1227. | 21 | |
| 6052471957 | Ibn al-Athir | He was a Muslim scholar and thinker. He was part of the nobility. Was an Arab historian who described the aftermath of the 1st crusade. He held a Muslims viewpoint and said the westerners had power and lands. He questioned the violence in the crusaders. | 22 | |
| 6052471958 | Ju Yuanzhang | A former monk that led this army in a final victory over the Mongols, became emperor of China and founded the Ming Dynasty | 23 | |
| 6052471959 | King Bela | King of Hungary | 24 | |
| 6052471960 | Chabi | Influential wife of Kubilai Khan; promoted interests of Buddhists in China; indicative of refusal of Mongol women to adopt restrictive social conventions of Chinese. | 25 | |
| 6052471961 | Marco Polo | (1254-1324) Italian explorer and author. He made numerous trips to China and returned to Europe to write of his journeys. He is responsible for much of the knowledge exchanged between Europe and China during this time period. | 26 | |
| 6052471963 | Prestor John | King of legendary Christian kingdom in East Asia | 27 | |
| 6052471964 | Golden Horde | Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde. | 28 | |
| 6052471965 | Timur-i Lang | Last major Mongol/nomad leader; 14th-century Turkic ruler of Samarkand; launched attacks in Persia, Fertile Crescent, India, southern Russia; empire disintegrated after his death in 1405. | 29 | |
| 6052471966 | Ogedei | (1186-1241) third son of Chinggis Khan; succeeded Chinggis Khan as khagan of the Mongols following his father's death | 30 |
