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96887705Mongolspeople of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire, living as nomads in northern Eurasia.0
96887706Genghis Khanuniversal leader. Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire1
96887707nomadismA way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.2
96887708Yuan empire(1271-1368) Empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan.3
96887709bubonic plagueA bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans4
96887710IL-Khan"peripheral khan based in Persia. The Il-khans' khanate was founded by Hülegü, a grandson of Genghis Khan5
96887711Golden HordeMongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu.6
96887712TimurMember of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate, Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran.7
96887713Rashid al-DinAdviser to the Il-khan ruler Ghazan, who converted to Islam on Rashid's advice.8
96887714Nasir al-Din Tusi(1201-1274) Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.9
96887715Alexander Nevskii...10
96887716tsar(czar) From Latincaesar, this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).11
96887717Ottoman EmpireIslamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia ca. 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453 to 1922.12
96887718Kubilai Khan...13
96887719lamaIn Tibetan Buddhism, a teacher14
96887720BeijingChina's northern capital, first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.15
96887721Ming EmpireEmpire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire.16
96887722YongleReign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424), the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).17
96887723Zheng He1371-1433) An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.18
96887724Yi(1392-1910) The Yi dynasty ruled Korea from the fall of the Koryo kingdom to the colonization of Korea by Japan.19
96887725kamikazethe "divine wind, which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.20
96887726Ashikaga Shogunate(1336-1573) The second of Japan's military governments headed by a shogun (a military ruler).21

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