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11934109256mongol world warterm 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 12090
11934109257Khubilai KhanGrandson of Chinggis Khan who ruled China from 1271 to 1294.1
11934109258Khutuluna 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 societies2
11934109259Genghis Khantitle meaning "universal ruler" that was given to the Mongol leader Temujin in 1206 after he united the mongols3
11934109260pastoralismway of life in which people depend on the herding of domesticated animals for their food4
11934109261Yuan Dynastymongol dynasty that rules China from 1271-1368 name means "great beginnings"5
11934109262Turkscreated 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 there6
11934109263Pastoralismalternative kind of food-producing economy focused on the raising of livestock emerged only in the Afro-Eurasia world7
11934109264Roman Cathlic Churchby the 11th century Western Christendom defined itself in centralized terms with the bishop of rome(pope) as the ultimate authority in matters of doctrine8
11934109265Byzantine EmpireThe surviving eastern Roman Empire during the medieval centuries9
11934109266CaesaropapismA political-religious system in which the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment,10
11934109267Justinianbyzantine emperor noted for his short lived reconquest of much of the former western Roman empire for his codification of Roman law11
11934109268Kievan Russtate 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 people12
11934109269CrusadesModern 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 beyond13
11934109270Eastern Orthodox ChurchBranch 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 Europe14
11934109271ConstantinopleNew capital for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, established by Emperor Constantine in 330 C.E. on the site of the ancient Byzantine15
11934109272Holy Roman EmpireTerm invented in the twelfth century to describe the Germany-based empire founded by Otto I in 962 C.E.16
11934109273iconsHoly images venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church.17
11934109274Aztec EmpireMajor 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
11934109275Seizure 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 Byzantium19
11934109276European RenaissanceA "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
11934109277Inca EmpireThe 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
11939756821Ming DynastyChinese 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
11939756822Mughal EmpireOne 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
11939756823Ottoman EmpireMajor Islamic state centered on Anatolia that came to include the Balkans, the Near East, and much of North Africa.24
11939756824Paleolithic persistenceThe continuance of gathering and hunting societies in substantial areas of the world despite millennia of agricultural advance.25
11939756825pochecaprofessional merchants in the Aztec Empire whose wealth often elevated them to the elite status26
11939756826Safavid EmpireMajor Turkic empire of Persia founded in the early sixteenth century, notable for its efforts to convert its populace to Shia Islam.27
11939756827Songhay EmpireMajor Islamic state of West Africa that formed in the second half of the fifteenth century.28
11939756828TimurTurkic warrior also known as Tamerlane, whose efforts to restore the Mongol Empire devastated much of Persia, Russia and India29
11939756829Zheng HeGreat Chinese admiral who commanded a fleet of more than 300 ships in a series of voyages of contact and exploration that began 140530

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