AP World History: Chapter 18 Flashcards
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| 259070711 | Yurts | tents used by nomadic Turkish and mongol tribes | 0 | |
| 259070712 | Shamans | religious specialists who possessed supernatural powers and who communicated with the gods and the spirits of nature. Turkish religion focused around them | 1 | |
| 259070713 | Salijugs | Turkish tribes that gained control over the Abbasid empire and fought with the Byzantine empire | 2 | |
| 259070714 | Khan | -RULER-rarely ruled directly, but ruled through the leaders of allied tribes. | 3 | |
| 259070715 | Sultan | The Sulijug leader -CHIEFTAIN or RULER- | 4 | |
| 259070716 | Manzikert | the site of a crushing and demoralizing defeat of Byzantine forces led by the emperor | 5 | |
| 259070717 | Genghis Khan | Chinggis Khan- Ruler who made aliances with other leaders. Brought all the Mongol tribes together into one great nation. | 6 | |
| 259070718 | Temüjin | Chinggis Khan | 7 | |
| 259070719 | Karakorum | Chinggis Khans capital or the Mongol empire | 8 | |
| 259070720 | Khanbaliq | "city of the khan" mongol capital in china | 9 | |
| 259070721 | How many regions did mongol empire divide into after chinggis death? | four | 10 | |
| 259070722 | Khubilai Khan | Genghis Khan's grandson, perhaps one of mongol empires greatest rulers, spread rule into all of china. Generous. | 11 | |
| 259070723 | Buddhism, but was tolerant of others also | Khubilai supported what religion? | 12 | |
| 259070724 | kamikaze | -DIVINE WINDS- Japanese defenders contributed win to this. | 13 | |
| 259070725 | The Golden Horde | A group of mongols, Khubilai's cousins and brothers, who controlled mongol in the east. Russia to west europe. Eventually fled to China | 14 | |
| 259070726 | The Ilkhanate of Persia | Hülegü, Khubilai's brother taking Mongol rule in Persia. More conquers than governors and lost control eventually. | 15 | |
| 259070727 | Guillaume Boucher | goldsmith captured by Mongol empire and technically a slave, but he worked as a goldsmith in Mongol capital city, Karakorum | 16 | |
| 259070728 | Kumiss | Alcoholic drink from animal products by fermenting mare's milk into a potent concoction | 17 | |
| 259070729 | Turkish | People who never formed a single, homogeneous group but rather organized into clans and tribes that were all rivals. Animals played a large part in their life style. | 18 | |
| 259070730 | Bubonic Plague | -BLACK DEATH- Killed 1/3 of Europe's population. Started in Southwestern China. Epidemic disease. | 19 | |
| 259070731 | Ottoman Empire | Powerful turkish empire that lasted from the conquest of Constantinople until 1918 and reached its peak during the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent. | 20 | |
| 259070732 | Yuan dynasty | Chinese dynasty that was founded by the Mongol ruler Khubilai Khan | 21 |