WHAP Chapter 14 Flashcards
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| 246009276 | kuriltai | meeting of all Mongol chieftains at which the supreme ruler of all tribes was selected | 0 | |
| 246009277 | khagan | title of the supreme ruler of the Mongol tribes | 1 | |
| 246009278 | tumens | basic fighting units of Mongol forces; consisted of 10,000 cavalrymen; each unit was further divided into units of 1000, 100, and 10 | 2 | |
| 246009279 | Karakorum | capital of the Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan, 1162-1227 | 3 | |
| 246009280 | Batu | ruler of Golden Horde; one of Chinggis Khan's grandsons; responsible for invasion of Russia beginning in 1236 | 4 | |
| 246009281 | Ogedei | third son of Chinggis Khan; succeeded Khan as khagan of the Mongols following his father's death | 5 | |
| 246009282 | Golden Horde | one of the four sub divisions of the Mongol Empire; territory covered much of what is today south central Russia | 6 | |
| 246009283 | Khanates | four regional Mongol kingdoms that arose following the death of Chinggis Khan | 7 | |
| 246009284 | Battle of Kulikova | Russian army victory over the forces of the Golden Horde | 8 | |
| 246009285 | John Prester | 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 a mythical ruler | 9 | |
| 246009286 | Baibars | commander of Mamluk forces at Ain Jalut in 1260, originally enslaved by Mongols and sold to Egyptians | 10 | |
| 246009287 | Berke | ruler of the Golden Horde; converted to Islam; his threat to Hulegu combined with the growing power of Mamluks in Egypt forestalled further Mongol conquests in the Middle East | 11 | |
| 246009288 | Kubilai Khan | 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 | 12 | |
| 246009289 | Dadu | present-day Beijing; so called when Kubilai Khan ruled China | 13 | |
| 246009290 | Chabi | influential wife of Kubilai Khan; promoted interests of Buddhists in China; indicative of refusal of Mongol women to adopt restrictive social conventions of Chinese; died 1281 | 14 | |
| 246009291 | Romance of the West Chamber | Chinese novel written during the Yuan period; indicative of the continued literacy vitality of China during Mongol rule | 15 | |
| 246009292 | White Lotus Society | secret religious society dedicated to overthrow of Yuan dynasty in China; typical of peasant resistance to Mongol rule | 16 | |
| 246009293 | Zhu Yuanzhang | given name of the Hongwu emperor, the founder of the Ming dynasty | 17 | |
| 246009294 | Ming Dynasty | succedded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in late 1368; lasted until about 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China | 18 | |
| 246009295 | Timur-i Lang | also known as Tamerlane; leader of Turkic nomads; beginning in 1360's from base at Samarkand, launched series of attacks in Persia, the Fertile Crescent, India, and southern Russia; empire disintegrated after his death in 1405 | 19 |