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| 39626165 | bubonic plague | bacterial disease, passed from fleas to rodents to people; high mortality tare; created crisis is many parts of the world. | 0 | |
| 39626166 | Ottoman Empire | islamic state founded by Osman in NW Anatolia ca 1300; after the fall of the Byzantine Empire | 1 | |
| 39626167 | Khubilai Khan | Last of the Mongol Great Khans and founder of the yuan Empire | 2 | |
| 39626168 | Nasir-al-Din Tusi | Persian math and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of planets that helped to inspire the copernican model of the solar system | 3 | |
| 39626169 | Il-Khan | a "secondary" or "peripheral" khan based in Persia. founded by Hulego a grandson of Ghengis and was based at Tabriz; controlled much of iraq and iran | 4 | |
| 39626170 | Genghis Khan | Temujin; when he ruled the Mongols; means "oceanic" or "universal" leader. was the founder of the Mongol Empire | 5 | |
| 39626171 | nomadism | way of life' forced by a scarcity of resources in which groups of peple continually migrate to find pastures and water | 6 | |
| 39626172 | lamas | in tibetan Buddism, a teacher | 7 | |
| 39626173 | Beijing | chinas N capital; first used as an imperial capital in 906 and is now the capitak of the Peoples Republic of China | 8 | |
| 39626174 | Yuan Empire | empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan | 9 | |
| 39626175 | Golden Horde | mongol khanate founded by Gehghis khan's grandson Batu; based in S russia and quickly adopted both Turkic language and islam. Aldo known as the Kipchaic Horde | 10 | |
| 39626176 | tsar | from latin-ceaser; russian title for a monarch was first used in referance to a russian ruler by ivan 3 | 11 | |
| 39626177 | Ming Empire | based in china; Zhu Yuanzhang established after overthrow of yuan empire. | 12 | |
| 39626178 | Yongle | reign period of Zhu Di, the 3rd ming period of the MIng empire; sponsored building of the forbidden city, encyclopedia prject, expeditions of zheng He, reopening of Chinese borders for trade and travel. | 13 | |
| 39626179 | Zheng He | imperial eunuch and Muslimentrusted by the ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the indian ocean | 14 | |
| 39626180 | Mongols | a people as early as the Tang Empire; living as nomads in northern Eurasia; established an empire under Genghis Khan; linking W and E asia | 15 | |
| 39626181 | Timur | member of prominent family of the Mongols jagadai khanate; gained control over much of Central asia and iran. | 16 | |
| 39626182 | Rashid-al-Din | adviser to the Il-Khan ruler Ghazan who converted to islam on Rashid's advice | 17 | |
| 40489368 | Yi | dynasty ruled Korea from the fall of the Koryo Kingdom to the colonization of Korea by japan | 18 | |
| 40489369 | kamikaze | the"divine wind" which helped the Japs; credited with blowing the mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281 | 19 | |
| 40489370 | ashikaga Shogunate | the second of Japs military governments headed by a shogun; sometimes called Muromachi Shogunate | 20 |
