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| 12102619880 | mongol world war | term used to describe a half a century of military campaigns massive killing and empire building pursed by Gengis Khan and his successors in Eurasia after 1209 | 0 | |
| 12102619881 | Khubilai Khan | Grandson of Chinggis Khan who ruled China from 1271 to 1294. | 1 | |
| 12102619882 | Khutulun | a mongol princess whose exploits in battle and wrestling along with her choice of husbands provide insight into the relative freedom and influence of the elite mongol women in their societies | 2 | |
| 12102619883 | Genghis Khan | title meaning "universal ruler" that was given to the Mongol leader Temujin in 1206 after he united the mongols | 3 | |
| 12102619884 | pastoralism | way of life in which people depend on the herding of domesticated animals for their food | 4 | |
| 12102619885 | Yuan Dynasty | mongol dynasty that rules China from 1271-1368 name means "great beginnings" | 5 | |
| 12102619886 | Turks | created a series of nomadic empires b/t 552 and 965 CE had more of an impact on world history when they became dominant in the Islamic heartland and founded a series of states and empires there | 6 | |
| 12102619887 | Pastoralism | alternative kind of food-producing economy focused on the raising of livestock emerged only in the Afro-Eurasia world | 7 | |
| 12102619888 | Roman Cathlic Church | by the 11th century Western Christendom defined itself in centralized terms with the bishop of rome(pope) as the ultimate authority in matters of doctrine | 8 | |
| 12102619889 | Byzantine Empire | The surviving eastern Roman Empire during the medieval centuries | 9 | |
| 12102619890 | Caesaropapism | A political-religious system in which the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment, | 10 | |
| 12102619891 | Justinian | byzantine emperor noted for his short lived reconquest of much of the former western Roman empire for his codification of Roman law | 11 | |
| 12102619892 | Kievan Rus | state that emerged around the city of Kiev in the 9th century CE a culturally diverse region that included Vikings as well at Finnic and Baltic people | 12 | |
| 12102619893 | Crusades | Modern term meaning "ventures of the cross," used to describe the "holy wars" waged by Western Christendom from 1095 until the end of the Middle Ages and beyond | 13 | |
| 12102619894 | Eastern Orthodox Church | Branch of Christianity that developed in the eastern Roman empire and gradually separated mostly on matters of practice from the branch of Christianity dominant in Western Europe | 14 | |
| 12102619895 | Constantinople | New capital for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, established by Emperor Constantine in 330 C.E. on the site of the ancient Byzantine | 15 | |
| 12102619896 | Holy Roman Empire | Term invented in the twelfth century to describe the Germany-based empire founded by Otto I in 962 C.E. | 16 | |
| 12102619897 | icons | Holy images venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church. | 17 | |
| 12102619898 | Aztec Empire | Major state that developed in what is now Mexico in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; dominated by the seminomadic Mexica, who had migrated into the region from northern Mexico. | 18 | |
| 12102619899 | Seizure of Constantinople (1453) | Capital of Byzantine Empire fell to the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II "the conqueror" and marked the end of Christian Byzantium | 19 | |
| 12102619900 | European Renaissance | A "rebirth" of classical learning that is most often associated with the cultural blossoming of Italy in the period 1350-1500 and that included not just a rediscovery of Greek learning but also major developments in art, as well as growing secularism in society. | 20 | |
| 12102619901 | Inca Empire | The Western Hemisphere's largest imperial state in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; built by a relatively small community of Quechua-speaking people (the Inca), the empire stretched some 2,500 miles along the Andes Mountains,and contained perhaps 10 million subjects. | 21 | |
| 12102619902 | Ming Dynasty | Chinese dynasty (1368-1644) that succeeded the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols; noted for its return to traditional Chinese ways and restoration of the land after the destructiveness of the Mongols. | 22 | |
| 12102619903 | Mughal Empire | One of the most successful empires of India, a state founded by an islamized Turkic group who invaded India in 1526; their rule was noted for efforts to create partnerships between Hindus and Muslims. | 23 | |
| 12102619904 | Ottoman Empire | Major Islamic state centered on Anatolia that came to include the Balkans, the Near East, and much of North Africa. | 24 | |
| 12102619905 | Paleolithic persistence | The continuance of gathering and hunting societies in substantial areas of the world despite millennia of agricultural advance. | 25 | |
| 12102619906 | pocheca | professional merchants in the Aztec Empire whose wealth often elevated them to the elite status | 26 | |
| 12102619907 | Safavid Empire | Major Turkic empire of Persia founded in the early sixteenth century, notable for its efforts to convert its populace to Shia Islam. | 27 | |
| 12102619908 | Songhay Empire | Major Islamic state of West Africa that formed in the second half of the fifteenth century. | 28 | |
| 12102619909 | Timur | Turkic warrior also known as Tamerlane, whose efforts to restore the Mongol Empire devastated much of Persia, Russia and India | 29 | |
| 12102619910 | Zheng He | Great Chinese admiral who commanded a fleet of more than 300 ships in a series of voyages of contact and exploration that began 1405 | 30 |
