96887705 | Mongols | people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire, living as nomads in northern Eurasia. | 0 | |
96887706 | Genghis Khan | universal leader. Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire | 1 | |
96887707 | nomadism | A way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water. | 2 | |
96887708 | Yuan empire | (1271-1368) Empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan. | 3 | |
96887709 | bubonic plague | A bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans | 4 | |
96887710 | IL-Khan | "peripheral khan based in Persia. The Il-khans' khanate was founded by Hülegü, a grandson of Genghis Khan | 5 | |
96887711 | Golden Horde | Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu. | 6 | |
96887712 | Timur | Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate, Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. | 7 | |
96887713 | Rashid al-Din | Adviser to the Il-khan ruler Ghazan, who converted to Islam on Rashid's advice. | 8 | |
96887714 | Nasir 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 | |
96887715 | Alexander Nevskii | ... | 10 | |
96887716 | tsar | (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 | |
96887717 | Ottoman Empire | Islamic 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 | |
96887718 | Kubilai Khan | ... | 13 | |
96887719 | lama | In Tibetan Buddhism, a teacher | 14 | |
96887720 | Beijing | China's northern capital, first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China. | 15 | |
96887721 | Ming Empire | Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. | 16 | |
96887722 | Yongle | Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424), the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424). | 17 | |
96887723 | Zheng He | 1371-1433) 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 | |
96887724 | Yi | (1392-1910) The Yi dynasty ruled Korea from the fall of the Koryo kingdom to the colonization of Korea by Japan. | 19 | |
96887725 | kamikaze | the "divine wind, which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281. | 20 | |
96887726 | Ashikaga Shogunate | (1336-1573) The second of Japan's military governments headed by a shogun (a military ruler). | 21 |
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