From the AP Edition of World Civilizations: The Global Experience (Fifth Edition) is Chapter 14 Vocabulary. It is for my AP World History class at East Career & Technical Academy.
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| 40282937 | Chinggis Khan | born in 1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all MOngol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China, territories as far west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227 prior to conquest of most of the Islamic world | 0 | |
| 40282938 | Tumens | basic fighting unit of the mongol force; consisted of 10,000 cavalrymen; divided into units of 10 | 1 | |
| 40282939 | Tangut | Rulers of the Xi Xia kingdom of northwest china; one of the regional kingdoms during the period of Southern Song; conquered by Mongols in 1226. | 2 | |
| 40282940 | Karakorum | Capital of the Mongol empire under Chinggis Khan, 1162 - 1227. | 3 | |
| 40282941 | Shamanistic religion | believed in spirits being both good and evil; shaman is a practitioner of this religion | 4 | |
| 40282942 | Batu | ruler of the golden horde; one of Chinggis Khan's grandsons; responsible for the invasion of Russia beginning in 1236. | 5 | |
| 40282943 | Ogedi | Third son of Chinggis Khan; succeeded Chinggis Khan as khagan of the Mongold following his father's death | 6 | |
| 40282944 | Golden Horde | One of the 4 subdivisions of the Mongol empire after Chinggis Khan's death, originally ruled by his grandson Batu; territory covered much of what today is south central Russia | 7 | |
| 40282945 | Mamluks | Muslim slave warriors; established a dynasty in Egypt; defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut in 1260 and halted Mongol advance | 8 | |
| 40282946 | Kubilai Khan | Grandson of Chinggis Khan; commander of Mongol forces responsible for conquest of China; became khagan in 1260; established Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1271. | 9 | |
| 40282947 | Nestorians | A Christian sect found in Asia; tended to support Islamic invasions of this area in preference to Byzantine rule; cut off from Europe by Muslim invasions | 10 | |
| 40282948 | White Lotus Society | secret religious society in china dedicated to overthrowing yuan china; peasent resistance to mongol rule | 11 | |
| 40282949 | Ju Yuanzhang | Chinese peasant who led successful revolt against the Yuan and founded the Ming Dynasty. | 12 | |
| 40282950 | Timur-i Lang | Also know as Tamerlane; leader of Turkic nomads; beginning in 1360s from base at Samarkand, launched series of attacks in Persia, the fertile Cresent, India, and southern Russia; empire disinte-grated after his death in 1405 | 13 |
