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| 288588119 | Genghis Khan | A Mongolian general and emperor of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, known for his military leadership and great cruelty. He conquered vast portions of northern China and southwestern Asia. | 0 | |
| 288588120 | Khubilai Khan | Reigned in China after establishing the Yuan Dynasty; he actively promoted Buddhism; descendant of Chinggis Khan. | 1 | |
| 288588121 | Rashid al-Din | Adviser to the Il-khan ruler Ghazan, who converted to Islam on Rashid's advice., Doctory, historian and adviser to the Il-khans, created some of the most concise writing on the Mongol Empire | 2 | |
| 288588122 | Tsar | The Russian emperor | 3 | |
| 288588123 | Zheng He | 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. (pp. 355, 422) | 4 | |
| 288588124 | Mansa Musa | ruled Mali from 1312 to 1332; spread interest in Mali as he journied to Mecca | 5 | |
| 288588125 | Three-Field System | a system of farming developed in medieval Europe, in which farm land was divided into three fields of equal size and each of these was successively planted with a winter crop, planted with a spring crop, and left unplanted. | 6 | |
| 288588126 | scholasticism | the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe | 7 | |
| 288588127 | Renassance | means "rebirth" and refers to the period that followed Europes Middle Ages | 8 | |
| 288588128 | Seljuk | any one of the Turkish dynasties that ruled Asia Minor from the 11th to the 13th centuries | 9 | |
| 288588129 | Mamluk | slave soldiers who converted to Islam the mamluks eventually became a powerful military caste and even governed Egypt from 1250 to 1517. | 10 | |
| 288588130 | Pygmy | a member of certain peoples of very short statue in equatorial Africa and parts of Southeast Asia | 11 | |
| 288588131 | Timbuktu | Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and learning | 12 | |
| 288588132 | Hanseatic League | An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century. (p. 401) | 13 | |
| 288588133 | Hundred Years War | Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families and French noble families. (p. 413) | 14 | |
| 288588134 | Khan | Mongol leader | 15 | |
| 288588135 | Marco Polo | Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324) | 16 | |
| 288588136 | Copernicus | Developed the first modern theory of a sun-centered universe | 17 | |
| 288588137 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. | 18 | |
| 288588138 | dhow | a lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs | 19 | |
| 288588139 | Il-Khan | representatives of the Great Khan who ruled Iran & Iraq in Middle Ages | 20 | |
| 288588140 | Mali | Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade. | 21 | |
| 288588141 | Swahili | a Bantu language with Arabic words spoken along the East African coast | 22 | |
| 288588142 | Guild | A medieval organization of crafts workers or trades people. | 23 | |
| 288588143 | Dante Alighieri | Medieval Italian poet wrote Inferno and Divine Comedy. Dealt the influence of the afterlife. | 24 | |
| 288588144 | War of the Roses | struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII | 25 | |
| 288588145 | Yuan Empire | He created this dynasty in China and Siberia. Khubilai Khan was head of the Mongol Empire and grandson of Genghis Khan. | 26 | |
| 288588146 | lamas | tibertan buddhist monk, particularly one of the highest in the hierarchy | 27 | |
| 288588147 | Dehli Sultanate | Islamic state in India | 28 | |
| 288588148 | Great Zimbabwe | A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade, farming, and mining. | 29 | |
| 288588149 | Nevskii | prince of Novgord | 30 | |
| 288588150 | Timur | Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate, Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox, and his descendants, the Timurids, maintained his empire. | 31 | |
| 288588151 | Ming Dynasty | Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China. | 32 |
