(The Post-Classical Era: 600-1450) These are all of the bolded terms for this chapter that the book gives definitions for, I recommend on just studying the ones you need to know
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| 8177369781 | Kuriltai | Meeting of all Mongol chieftains at which the supreme ruler of all tribes was selected. | 0 | |
| 8177369782 | Khagan | Title of the supreme ruler of the Mogol tribes. | 1 | |
| 8177730286 | Tumens | Basic fighting units of the Mongol forces; consisted of 110,000 cavalrymen; each unit was further divided into units of 1000, 100, and 10. | 2 | |
| 8177737877 | Karakorum | Capital of the Mongol empire under Chinggis Khan, 1162 to 1227. | 3 | |
| 8177746030 | Batu | Ruler of Golden Horde; one of Chinggis Khan's grandsons; responsible for invasion of Russia beginning in 1236. | 4 | |
| 8177756147 | Ogedei | Third son of Chinggis Khan; succeeded Chinggis Khan as khagan of the Mongols following his father's death. | 5 | |
| 8177769281 | Golden Horde | One of the four subdivisions of the Mongol empire after Chinggis Khan's death, originally ruled by his grandson Batu; territory covered much of what is today south-central Russia. | 6 | |
| 8177780120 | Khanates | Four regional Mongol kingdoms that arose following the death of Chinggis Khan. | 7 | |
| 8177782886 | Battle of Kulikova | Russian army victory over the forces of the Golden Horde; helped break Mongol hold over Russia. | 8 | |
| 8177788276 | Prester John | In legends popular from 12th to 17th century, a mythical Christian monarch whose kingdom was cut off from Europe by Muslim onquests; Chinggis Khan was originally believed to be this mythical ruler. | 9 | |
| 8177799594 | Baibars | Commander of Mamluk forces at Ain Jalut in 1260; originally enslaved by Mongols and sold to Egyptians. | 10 | |
| 8177804549 | Berke | A ruler of the Golden Horde; converted to Islam; his threat to Julegu combined with the growing power of Mamluks in Egypt forestalled further Mongol conquests in the Middle East. | 11 | |
| 8177819194 | Kubilai Khan | Grandson of Chinggis Khan; commander of Mongol forces responsible for conquest of China; became khagan in 1260; established Sinicized Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1271. | 12 | |
| 8177831269 | Dadu | Present-day Beijing; so-called when Kubilai Khan ruled China. | 13 | |
| 8177839158 | 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; died c. 1281. | 14 | |
| 8177851681 | "Romance of the West Chamber" | Chinese drama is written during the Yuan period; indicative of the continued literary vitality of China during Mongol rule. | 15 | |
| 8177860111 | White Lotus Society | Secret religious society dedicated to overthrowing of Yuan dynasty in China; typical of peasant resistance of Mongol rule | 16 | |
| 8177864259 | Zhu Yuanzhang | The given name of the Hongwu emperor, the founder of the Ming dynasty. | 17 | |
| 8177868406 | Ming dybasty | Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to souterhnAsia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal developments within China. | 18 | |
| 8177878132 | Timbur-i Lang | Also known as Tamberlane; leader of Turkic nomads; beginning in the 1360s from the base at Samarkand, launched series of attacks in Perisa, the Fertile Cresent, India, and southern Russia; empire disintegrated after his death in 1405. | 19 |
