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| 312797707 | Genghis Khan (Temujin) | He led his people in attacks against China and against other parts of Asia; his name means "universal leader" | 0 | |
| 312797708 | khan | title given to Mongol leaders, meaning "supreme ruler" | 1 | |
| 312830184 | Mongols | nomads who established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan, linking western and eastern Eurasia after 1206 | 2 | |
| 312830185 | nomadism | A way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water. | 3 | |
| 312830186 | steppe | treeless plains, especially the high, flat expanses of northern Eurasia; they are good lands for nomads, their herds, and for breeding horses | 4 | |
| 312830187 | iron | used for weapons and tools | 5 | |
| 312830188 | bubonic plague | a bacterial disease from fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans | 6 | |
| 312830189 | Il-Khan | a ''secondary'' or ''peripheral'' khan based in Persia; it controlled much of Iran and Iraq | 7 | |
| 312830190 | Golden Horde | founded by Batu; based in southern Russia; it quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam | 8 | |
| 312830191 | Mongol bow | a wooden, several- layer invention created by the Mongols for their military | 9 | |
| 312830192 | Juvaini | historian who wrote the first comprehensive narrative about the rise of Mongols under Ghengis Khan | 10 | |
| 312830193 | Rashid al-Din | Jewish histroian who converted to Islam during Mongol times | 11 | |
| 312830194 | tax farming | a government's use of private collectors to collect taxes | 12 | |
| 312830195 | Ibn Kaldun | Muslim writer who traced the history of the Muslim world | 13 | |
| 312830196 | Nasir al-Din Tusi | the Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system | 14 | |
| 312830197 | Arabic numerals | a written number system adopted by the Islamic Empire before spreading further into parts of Europe | 15 | |
| 312830198 | Alexander Nevski | he submitted to the invading Mongols in 1240 and received recognition as the leader of the Russian princes under the Golden Horde | 16 | |
| 312830199 | Ottomans | Turks who had come to Anatolia in the same wave of migrations as the Seljuks | 17 | |
| 312830200 | Mamluks | Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries; they eventually founded their own state, ruling Egypt and Syria | 18 | |
| 312830201 | Khanate of Jagadai | the khanate in Centeral Asia ruled by the descendants of genghis's son, Jugadai | 19 | |
| 312830202 | Timur | 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 | 20 | |
| 312830203 | Ogodei | he continued the expansion of the empire that his father had begun, and was a world figure when the Mongol Empire reached its furthest extent west and south during the invasions of Europe and Asia | 21 | |
| 312830204 | Yuan Empire | the empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan | 22 | |
| 312830205 | lama | a Buddhist religious leader | 23 | |
| 312830206 | Khubilai Khan | last of the Mongol Great Khans; founder of the Yuan Empire | 24 | |
| 312830207 | Beijing | China's northern capital | 25 | |
| 312830208 | cottage industries | weaving, sewing, carving, and other small-scale industries that can be done in the home | 26 | |
| 312830209 | Manchuria | region of Northeast Asia bounded by the Yalu River on the south and the Amur River on the east and north | 27 | |
| 312830210 | Ming Empire | empire established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire | 28 | |
| 312830211 | Yongle | the Ming emperor; he sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of the Zheng He | 29 | |
| 312830212 | Forbidden City | the walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924 | 30 | |
| 312830213 | Zheng He | 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 | 31 | |
| 312830214 | technology transfer | the communication of specific plans, designs, or educational programs necessary for the use of new technologies from one society or class to another | 32 | |
| 312830215 | medicine (?) | any drug that is used to prevent, cure, or treat illness or pain | 33 | |
| 312830216 | Yi | the Korean dynasty that succeeded the Koryo dynasty following period of Mongol invasions; established in 1392; restored aristocratic dominance and Chinese influence | 34 | |
| 312830217 | movable type | each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal; it replaced woodblock printing, allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page; invented in Korea during the 13th Century | 35 | |
| 312830218 | cotton | produces fibers from which cotton textiles are woven; spread throughout Asia and then to the New World; a major cash crop | 36 | |
| 312830219 | kamikaze | the ''divine wind'' which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281 | 37 | |
| 312830220 | Ashikaga Shogunate | the second of Japan's military governments headed by a shogun; sometimes called the Muromachi Shogunate | 38 | |
| 312830221 | shogun | a military ruler in Japan | 39 | |
| 312830222 | Annam | a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea | 40 | |
| 312830223 | Champa | a state formerly located in what is now southern Vietnam; it was hostile to Annam and was annexed by Annam and destroyed as an independent entity in 1500 | 41 |
