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| 270509992 | Genghis Khan | The title of Temujin when he ruled the Mongols. It means the "oceanic" or "universal" leader | 0 | |
| 270509993 | Mongols | people living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan, linking western and eastern Eurasia. | 1 | |
| 270509994 | Nomadism | A way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water. | 2 | |
| 270509995 | Bubonic Plague | A bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans; humans can spread it through coughing. | 3 | |
| 270509996 | Il-Khan | A "secondary" or "peripheral" khan based in Persia. The Il-Khans' khanate was founded by Hulegu, a grandson of Genghis Khan, and was based at Tabriz in modern Azerbaijan. It controlled much of Iraq and Iran. | 4 | |
| 270509997 | Golden Horde | Mongol Khanate founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde. | 5 | |
| 270509998 | Yuan Empire | Empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan. | 6 | |
| 270509999 | Zheng-He | An imperial eunuch and Muslim , An imperial eunuch and Muslim, 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. | 7 | |
| 270510000 | Beijing | China's northern capital, first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China. | 8 | |
| 270510001 | Kamikaze | the "divine wind" which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281. | 9 | |
| 270510002 | Alexander Nevsky | Russian saint and national hero named after the Neva River, where he defeated the Swedes in 1240. | 10 | |
| 270510003 | Tsar | From Latin "Caesar", this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian rule by Ivan II | 11 | |
| 270510004 | Ottomans | Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, it was based at Istanbul from 1453 to 1922, encompassing lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and easten Europe. | 12 | |
| 270510005 | Lama | In Tibetan Buddhism, a teacher. | 13 | |
| 270510006 | Kublai Khan | Mongol emperor of China; grandson of Genghis Khan. He led the conquest of China and founded the Yuan dynasty. | 14 | |
| 270510007 | Yi Kingdom | The Yi dynasty ruled Korea from the fall of the Koryo kingdom to the colonization of Korea by Japan. | 15 | |
| 270510008 | Ming Empire | Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. | 16 |
