CH 12: Mongol Eurasia and its Aftermath, 1200-1500
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| 11978231145 | kinship and tribute ties | How did the nomadic Mongols function in terms of power? | 0 | |
| 11978251158 | Mongol wives and mothers would handle state affairs during times of deciding the next successor | What was the role of women in Mongol society? | 1 | |
| 11978274957 | Chinggis (Ghengis) Khan | Who began the period of Mongol conquests and conquered most of Russia, China, Vietnam, and the Middle East? | 2 | |
| 11978283562 | to win tribute from Eurasian kingdoms | What was the original goal for the Mongol conquests? | 3 | |
| 11978319640 | disease (bubonic plague) | Although the Mongols facilitated trade on the Silk Road, what else spread besides religions and ideas? | 4 | |
| 11978354653 | a united empire | Although Genghis Khan only wanted tribute out of the military conquests, his successor wanted what? | 5 | |
| 11978417474 | superior military tactics | How did the Mongols win territory? | 6 | |
| 11978430093 | Il-khanate | a "secondary" or "peripheral" khan based in Persia and controlled much of Iran and Iraq | 7 | |
| 11978451983 | Hulegu Khan | Who founded the Il-Khanate? | 8 | |
| 11978460847 | Golden Horde | Mongol khanate that was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam | 9 | |
| 11978477966 | Batu | How founded the Golden Horde? | 10 | |
| 11978503026 | Islam | What religion became a subject of tension between the Mongols of the Il-khan and the Golden Horde? | 11 | |
| 11978614238 | Islamic doctrines contradicted with Mongol ways, and the tension grew when Batu's successor of the Golden Horde declared he was a Muslim in the Khan line. | Why was Islam a subject of tension between the Il-khanate and the Golden Horde? | 12 | |
| 11978633300 | Timur | member of a prominent family of the Mongol's Chagatai Khanate, gained control over Central Asia and Iran through military conquest | 13 | |
| 11978754272 | the Il-khan | Which khanate fell first and were subdued by the Timurids of the Chagatai Khanate? | 14 | |
| 11978786428 | Il-khans and Timurids | Under what two khanates did Central Asia and Iran experience a flowering Islamic culture? | 15 | |
| 11978812848 | the exchange of Islamic knowledge and practices in Samarkand | How did Islam blossom in Iran and Central Asia during Il-khan and Timurid rule? | 16 | |
| 11978838590 | historical writing, literature, art, mathematics, and astronomy | What were some achievements that were made in Iran and Central Asia during Il-khan and Timurid rule? | 17 | |
| 11978867274 | the establishment of smaller khanates and civil war | Although the Golden Horde started out as a unified state, it slowly lost unity due to what? | 18 | |
| 11978882326 | Kievan Russia | What did the Mongols destroy in the process of military conquest over northern Eurasia? | 19 | |
| 11979178777 | they granted privileges to the Orthodox Church | What did the Mongols of the Golden Horde do to facilitate control over Russia? | 20 | |
| 11979232762 | decentralization in Russia | Mongol invasion in Russia and the submission of Prince Alexander Nevskii promoted what? | 21 | |
| 11979271397 | Repeated wars with the expanding Catholic principality of Lithuania | What discouraged the Mongols of the Golden Horde (influenced by the Orthodox Church) from extending relations with western Europe? | 22 | |
| 11979291781 | Ivan III of Moscow | Who established himself as an autocratic tsar (ruler) and ultimately centralized power from Kiev to Moscow? | 23 | |
| 11979346750 | the decline of Mongol authority and Byzantine influence | What enabled the rise of Lithuania and Serbia in eastern Europe, and of the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia? | 24 | |
| 11979366097 | They eventually cooperated with the Mongols | How did Lithuania maintain their independence during decentralization in the Golden Horde? | 25 | |
| 11979397880 | the decaying Byzantine Empire | Serbia rose to power due to what? | 26 | |
| 11979410586 | they subdued the Timurids | How did the Ottoman Empire rise to power? | 27 | |
| 11979426711 | Khubilai Khan | last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294) and founder of the Yuan Empire | 28 | |
| 11979481746 | he kept the Confucian bureaucracy and education, but also had lamas be influential to Mongol rulers | How did Khubilai Khan synthesize Chinese and Mongol tradition in the Yuan Empire? | 29 | |
| 11979505748 | lamas | Buddhist religious leaders that influenced Mongol rulers in the Yuan Empire | 30 | |
| 11979534632 | he separated all of China into provinces | What did Khubilai Khan do to systematize control in China? | 31 | |
| 11979593033 | the synthesis of Confucianism and Buddhism in the government, the social hierarchy being based on race, and the protection of trade routes and exchange of ideas | What were some factors that demonstrated the Yuan Empire promoting a cosmopolitan and diverse culture? | 32 | |
| 11979662411 | it was based on ethnicity rather than heredity | What was so unique about Yuan's social hierarchy? | 33 | |
| 11979626815 | Mongols, Central Asians and Middle Easterners, Northern Chinese, and Southern Chinese | What was the social hierarchy in the Yuan Empire (from highest to lowest)? | 34 | |
| 11979709633 | the population shrank | What happened to China's population as a result to Mongol conquest and rule? | 35 | |
| 11979728191 | farmer rebellions and inter-Mongol feuds | What caused political fragmentation in the Yuan Empire, which ultimately weakened the empire by the 1340s? | 36 | |
| 11979891294 | Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu) | Who took advantage of the political fragmentation in the Yuan Empire, conquering it, and established the Ming Empire? | 37 | |
| 11979924171 | anti-Mongol ideology | During the beginning of his rule, Hongwu of the Ming Empire ruled with what kind of ideology, but despite his efforts, the Ming government adopted Yuan practices? | 38 | |
| 11979951696 | Yongle | Who was the third emperor of the Ming Empire that sponsored the completion of the Forbidden City and reestablished international trade in China? | 39 | |
| 11980000665 | Confucian examination system | What system did the Ming reestablish in their government? | 40 | |
| 11980039488 | although development continued, there were less frequent advances, and some techniques were kept secret | What was the technological innovation like in the Ming Empire? | 41 | |
| 11980057787 | literature, the arts, and porcelain production | What were the Ming's greatest achievements? | 42 | |
| 11980073867 | Yi Songgye | After generations of tyranny and giving into Mongol influence, who forced the Koryo kingdom to recognize the fall of the Yuan Empire and established the Choson kingdom? | 43 | |
| 11980098795 | Ming Empire | What empire was the Choson kingdom influenced by? | 44 | |
| 11980121947 | they revitalized Korean identity, rejected Mongol dominion, and reestablished the significance of education with the Confucian bureaucracy | Similar to the Ming Empire, what did the Choson kingdom do after Mongol rule? | 45 | |
| 11980169573 | a storm | What caused the failure of Mongol invasion in Japan? | 46 | |
| 11980192459 | to recentralize their military government to the shogun to improve their army | What did the Mongols' attempts to subdue Japan force the Kamakura Shogunate to do? | 47 | |
| 11980220360 | Ashikaga Shogunate | Go-Daigo's failed attempt to reassert imperial power resulted in the rise of what? | 48 | |
| 11980243233 | paid tribute to the Yuan Empire | The warring states of Vietnam (Dai Viet and Champa) avoided Mongol conquest, but still did what? | 49 | |
| 11980302688 | the Ming had withdrawn from Dai Viet, and Dai Viet conquered the Champa | What happened that unified Vietnam by the 1500s? | 50 | |
| 11980329443 | they had a Confucian government with local practices | What made Vietnam's government and culture unique from the rest of East Asia? | 51 |
