Chapter 12 Flashcards

39626165	bubonic plague	bacterial disease, passed from fleas to rodents to people; high mortality tare; created crisis is many parts of the world.	0
39626166	Ottoman Empire	islamic state founded by Osman in NW Anatolia ca 1300; after the fall of the Byzantine Empire	1
39626167	Khubilai Khan	Last of the Mongol Great Khans and founder of the yuan Empire	2
39626168	Nasir-al-Din Tusi	Persian math and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of planets that helped to inspire the copernican model of the solar system	3
39626169	Il-Khan	a "secondary" or "peripheral" khan based in Persia. founded by Hulego a grandson of Ghengis and was based at Tabriz; controlled much of iraq and iran	4
39626170	Genghis Khan	Temujin; when he ruled the Mongols; means "oceanic" or "universal" leader. was the founder of the Mongol Empire	5
39626171	nomadism	way of life' forced by a scarcity of resources in which groups of peple continually migrate to find pastures and water	6
39626172	lamas	in tibetan Buddism, a teacher	7
39626173	Beijing	chinas N capital; first used as an imperial capital in 906 and is now the capitak of the Peoples Republic of China	8
39626174	Yuan Empire	empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan	9
39626175	Golden Horde	mongol khanate founded by Gehghis khan's grandson Batu; based in S russia and quickly adopted both Turkic language and islam. Aldo known as the Kipchaic Horde	10
39626176	tsar	from latin-ceaser; russian title for a monarch was first used in referance to a russian ruler by ivan 3	11
39626177	Ming Empire	based in china; Zhu Yuanzhang established after overthrow of yuan empire.	12
39626178	Yongle	reign period of Zhu Di, the 3rd ming period of the MIng empire; sponsored building of the forbidden city, encyclopedia prject, expeditions of zheng He, reopening of Chinese borders for trade and travel.	13
39626179	Zheng He	imperial eunuch and Muslimentrusted by the ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the indian ocean	14
39626180	Mongols	a people as early as the Tang Empire; living as nomads in northern Eurasia; established an empire under Genghis Khan; linking W and E asia	15
39626181	Timur	member of prominent family of the Mongols jagadai khanate; gained control over much of Central asia and iran.	16
39626182	Rashid-al-Din	adviser to the Il-Khan ruler Ghazan who converted to islam on Rashid's advice	17
40489368	Yi	dynasty ruled Korea from the fall of the Koryo Kingdom to the colonization of Korea by japan	18
40489369	kamikaze	the"divine wind" which helped the Japs; credited with blowing the mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281	19
40489370	ashikaga Shogunate	the second of Japs military governments headed by a shogun; sometimes called Muromachi Shogunate	20