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| 102010743 | kuriltai | meeting of all mongol chieftains at which the supreme ruler of all tribes was selected | 0 | |
| 102010744 | khagan | title of the supreme ruler of the mongol tribes | 1 | |
| 102010745 | tumens | basic fighting units of the mongol forces; consisted of 10,000 cavalrymen; each unit was farther divided into units of 1000,100,10 | 2 | |
| 102010746 | karakorum | capital of the mongol empire under chingggis khan, 1162-1227 | 3 | |
| 102010747 | 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 islamic world | 4 | |
| 102010748 | batu | ruler of golden horde; one of chinggis khan's grandsons; responsible for invasion of russia beginning in 1236 | 5 | |
| 102010749 | ogedei | the third son of chinggis khan; succeeded chinggis khan as khagan of the mongols following his father's death | 6 | |
| 102010750 | golden horde | one of the four subdivisions of the mongol empire after chinggis khan's death, originally ruled by his grandson batu; territory covered much of what is today south central asia | 7 | |
| 102010751 | khanates | four regional mongol kingdoms that arose following the death of chinggis khan | 8 | |
| 102010752 | prestor john | in legends popular from 12th to 17th century, a mythical christian whose kingdom was cut off from europe by muslim conquests; chinggis khan was originally believed to be this mythical ruler | 9 | |
| 102010753 | kubilai khan | grandson of chinggis khan; commander of mongol forces responsible for conquest of china; became khagan in 1260; established sinicized mongo yuan dynasty in china in 1271 | 10 | |
| 102010754 | hulegu | ruler of the ilkhan khanate; grandson of chinggis khan; responsible for capture and destruction of baghdad in 1257 | 11 | |
| 102010755 | tatu | mongol capital of yuan dynasy; present day beijing | 12 | |
| 102010756 | chabi | influential wife of kubilai khan; promoted interests of buddhists in china; indicative of refusal of mongol women to adopt restrictive social conventions of chinese; died 1281 | 13 | |
| 102010757 | the romance of the west chamber | the most famous dramatic work written in the yuan period | 14 | |
| 102010758 | white lotus society | secret religious society dedicated to overthrow of yuan dynasty in china; typical of peasant resistance to mongol rule | 15 | |
| 102010759 | ju yuanzhang | chinese peasant who led successful revolt against yuan; founded ming dynasty | 16 | |
| 102010760 | 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 | 17 | |
| 102010761 | timur-l lang | also known as tamerlane; leader of turkic nomads; beginning in 1360s from base at samarkand, launched series of attacks in persia, the fertile crescent, india, and southern russia; empire disintegrated after his death in 1405 | 18 |
