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| 5930774089 | Yurt (Interactions; Pg. 463) | a circular tent of felt or skins on a collapsible framework, used by nomads in Mongolia, Siberia, and Turkey. |  | 0 |
| 5930781325 | Shamans (Cultural; Pg. 463) | a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits |  | 1 |
| 5930788692 | Temujin (Political; Pg. 466) | Mongolian emperor whose empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean (1162-1227) |  | 2 |
| 5930797568 | Khubilai Khan (Political; Pg. 470) | Mongol emperor (1260-1294) and founder of the Mongol dynasty in China. A grandson of Genghis Khan, he conquered the Song dynasty (1279) and established a great capital, now Beijing, where he received Marco Polo |  | 3 |
| 5930797569 | Ilkhanate (Political; Pg. 471) | was one of the four khanates within the Mongol Empire. |  | 4 |
| 5930798294 | Yuan (Economical; Pg. 471) | the basic monetary unit of China, equal to 10 jiao or 100 fen. |  | 5 |
| 5930799142 | Tamerlane (Political; Pg. 473) | Tartar conqueror in southern and western Asia: ruler of Samarkand 1369-1405 |  | 6 |
| 5930799143 | Ming Yongle (Political; Pg. 467) | the third emperor of the Ming dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424. Zhu Di was the fourth son of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming dynasty. |  | 7 |
| 5930799838 | Battle of Manzikert (Political; Pg. 465) | was fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuq Turks on August 26, 1071 near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turkey). |  | 8 |
| 5930799839 | Seljuks (Political; Pg. 465) | a member of any of the Turkish dynasties that ruled Asia Minor in the 11th to 13th centuries, successfully invading the Byzantine Empire and defending the Holy Land against the Crusaders. |  | 9 |
| 5930800465 | Khanbaliq (Interactions, Political; Pg. 468) | An ancient city of Mongol China on the site of modern Beijing. Rebuilt by Kublai Khan from 1264 to 1267 on the site of an earlier city, Khanbalik was called Cambaluc by Marco Polo, who described its magnificence in the account of his travels. |  | 10 |
| 5930800466 | Golden Horde (Interactions, Political; Pg. 465) | the army of Mongol Tartars that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century, established a khanate in Russia, and maintained suzerainty there until the 15th century. | | 11 |
| 5930801799 | Hulegu (Political; Pg. 470) | a Mongol ruler who conquered much of Western Asia. |  | 12 |
| 5930801800 | Marco Polo (Interactions, Political; Pg. 468) | An Italian explorer of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries; one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia. He visited the court of Kublai Khan (see "Kubla Khan" under "Literature in English"), the Mongol ruler of China, and became a government official in China. His account of his travels was distributed after his return to Italy. |  | 13 |
| 5930802633 | Ming Hongwu (Political; Pg. 468) | was the founder and first emperor of China's Ming dynasty. |  | 14 |
