AP World Ch. 12 Flashcards

239674497	Mongols	A people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire, living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan, linking western and eastern Eurasia
239674498	Genghis Khan	Mongolian Emperor whose empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean (1162-1227)
239674499	Nomadism	A way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water
239674500	Bubonic Plague	Deadly disease that spread through Europe and was caused by fleas. Also known as Black Death
239674501	Golden Horde	Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam
239674502	Timur	Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405)
239674503	Tsar	A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
239674504	Ottoman Empire	Turkish empire created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I
239674505	Khubilai Khan	Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294) and founder of the Yuan Empire
239674506	Beijing	China's northern capital, first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China
239674507	Ming Empire	Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. The Ming emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He
239674508	Zheng He	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
239674509	Kamikaze	Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships