110647027 | Mongols | Nomadic group. Practiced many different religions. | 0 | |
110647028 | Genghis Khan | The title of Temujin when he ruled the Mongols. Founder of the Mongol Empire. | 1 | |
110647029 | Yuan Empire | Empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan | 2 | |
110647030 | ll-khan | A secondary or peripheral kahn based in Persia. Khanate was founded by Hulegu, a grandson of Ghengis Khan and was based at Tabariz in Azerbaijan. It controlled much of Iran and Iraq. | 3 | |
110647031 | Golden Horde | Mongol empire founded by Ghengis Khan's grandson Batu. Based in Southern Russia. | 4 | |
110647032 | Timur/Tamerlane | Leader of Mongol Empire branch, Jagadai Khanate. Gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. | 5 | |
110647033 | Alexander Nevskii | Prince of Novogrod.` | 6 | |
110647034 | Tsar/Czar | Russian title for a monarch. | 7 | |
110647035 | Ottoman Empire | Islamic state. | 8 | |
110647036 | Khubilai Khan | Last of the Mongol Great Khans & Founder of Yuan Empire. | 9 | |
110647037 | Ming Empire | Empire based in China. Established after the overthrow of Yuan Empire. | 10 | |
110647038 | Yongle | Reign period of Zhu Di, the third emperor of the Ming Empire. Sponsored building of Forbidden City. | 11 | |
110647039 | Zheng He | Chinese explorer.Sailed ships through the Indian Ocean from SE Asia to Africa. | 12 | |
110647040 | Kamikaze | The "divine wind" which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shore. | 13 | |
110647041 | Ashikaga Shogunate | 2nd military government in Japan. | 14 | |
110647042 | Khanate of Jagadai | Central Asian Power led by Timur. Mongol Empire-Central Asia. | 15 | |
110647043 | Pax Mongolica | Mongol Peace | 16 | |
110647044 | Ibn Buttuta | Most widely traveled and wrote detailed accounts. Muslim. | 17 | |
110647045 | Mansa Musa | Ruler of Mali. His pilgrimage through Mecca established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Med. world. | 18 | |
110647046 | Great Zimbabwe | Great Trading center. | 19 | |
110647047 | Urdu | A persian influenced literary form of Hindi written in Arabic characters and used as a literary language.. | 20 | |
110647048 | Hanseatic League | Trade alliance of the free towns in North Germany. | 21 | |
110647049 | Renaissance(Europe) | Rebirth of Greco-Roman culutre. Classical. | 22 | |
110647050 | Scholasticism | compromise Reconcile reason and religion | 23 | |
110647051 | Humanists(Renaissance) | Deals with the indvidual thing instead of the whole group. | 24 | |
110647052 | Great Western Schism | Catholic Church has 2 people claiming to be Pope. | 25 | |
110647053 | Hundred Years War | War between England and France over claims for the French Throne. France won. | 26 | |
110647054 | Niccolo Machiavelli | Wrote "The Prince" | 27 | |
110647055 | Dante Alighieri | Author of the "Divine Comedy".. | 28 | |
110647056 | Arawak | Native group Columbus met. | 29 | |
110647057 | Henry the Navigator | Prince of Portugal. Prominent Explorer. Established a school. | 30 | |
110647058 | Caravel | Ship used for exploration | 31 | |
110647059 | Bartolomeu Dias | Portugese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa. | 32 | |
110647060 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portugese navigator. First to sail around the world. | 33 | |
110647061 | Conquistadors | Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru. Came to new world. | 34 | |
110647062 | Cortes | Conquered Aztecs | 35 | |
110647063 | Pizarro | Conquered Incas | 36 | |
110647064 | Montezuma II | last aztec emperor | 37 | |
110647065 | Atalhualpa | last inca emperor | 38 | |
110647066 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain&Portugal. | 39 |
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