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| 1881708787 | Kuriltai | Meeting of all Mongol chieftains at which the supreme ruler of all tribes was selected | 0 | |
| 1881708788 | Khagan | Title of the supreme ruler of the Mongol tribes | 1 | |
| 1881708789 | Tumens | Basic fighting units of the Mongol forces; consisted of 10000 cavalrymen; each unit was further divided into units of 1000, 100, and 10 | 2 | |
| 1881708790 | Batu | Ruler of Golden Horde; one of Chinggis Khan's grandsons; responsible for invasion of Russia beginning in 1236 | 3 | |
| 1881708791 | Ogedei | (1186-1241) Third son of Chinggis Khan; succeeded Chinggis Khan as khagan of the Mongols following his father's death | 4 | |
| 1881708792 | Golden Horde | One of the four subdivisions of the Mongol Enjoy after Chinggis Khan's death, originally ruled by his grandson Batu; territory covered much of what is today south central Russia | 5 | |
| 1881708793 | Battle of Kulikova | Russian army victory over the forces of the Golden Horde; helped break Mongol hold over Russia | 6 | |
| 1881708794 | Prester John | In legends popular from 12th to 17th century, a mythical Christian monarch whose kingdom was cut off from Europe by Muslim conquests; Chinggis Khan was originally believed to be this mythical ruler | 7 | |
| 1881708795 | Kubilai Khan | (1215-1294) Grandson of Chinggis Khan; commander of Mongol forces responsible for conquest of China; became khagan in 1260; established Sinicized Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1271 | 8 | |
| 1881708796 | 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 | 9 | |
| 1881708797 | Timur-i 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 on 1405 | 10 | |
| 1881708798 | Nomadic Lifestyle | Lifestyle that involves traveling from place to place and depending on herd | 11 | |
| 1881708799 | Tribute | A payment made periodically by one state or ruler to another; especially as a sign of dependence | 12 | |
| 1881708800 | Yuan Dynasty | (1279-1368) Dynasty in China set up by the Mongols under the leadership of Kublai Khan; replaced the Song | 13 | |
| 1881708801 | 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 the Islamic world | 14 | |
| 1881708802 | Tatars | Mongols who captured Russian cities and destroyed the Kievan state in 1236 | 15 | |
| 1881708803 | Marco Polo | Venetian merchant and traveler; accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade; served Kublai Khan | 16 | |
| 1881708804 | Muhammad Shah II | The Turkic ruler of Khwarazm; attempted to resist the Mongol conquest by Chingiss Khan but failed; fled and left his people and would later die on a island in the Caspian Sea | 17 | |
| 1881708805 | Alexander Nevskii | Prince of Novgorod; submitted to the invading Mongols in 1240 and received recognition as the leader of the Russian princes under the Golden Horde | 18 |
