Unit 2 Flashcards

Mrs.Booth's class 2010

101833270	Mongols	the Tang Empire, living as nomads in northern Eurasia After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan, linking western and eastern Eurasia. >(p. 325)	0
101833271	Genghis Khan	A Mongolian general and emperor of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, known for his military leadership and great cruelty. He conquered vast portions of northern China and southwestern Asia. (1206-1227)	1
101833272	Keys to his Success for Genghis Khan	Cavalry and compound, keep useful people alive, religious toleration,silk roads revival	2
101833273	Pax Mongolica	Era of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire, the alleged stabilizing effects of the conquest of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory they conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries...also can be called "Mongol Peace"	3
101833274	Death of Genghis Khan---1227	Empire disovles into 4 parts: Yuan Dynasty (China), Kanate of Chaghaddai (Central Asia), Golden Horde (Russia), 2 Kharate (Islamic Area)	4
101833275	Fallout in Persia	Mongols never left they simply ASSIMILATED and became Muslims	5
101833276	Fallout in Russia	Mongols gone by the 13th century, strengthened Orthodox church, princes, and Moscow as a new city,	6
101852969	Gur	lived in a house	7
101852970	Fallout in Yuan Dynasty	Inter-Mongol fighting, Inflation,Ethic cleansing,Plague(1338), Taxing farmers-Peasant Rebellions, Out of China by 1368	8
101852971	2 BIG REASONS WHY THE MONGOLS LEFT	Plague and Peasant Rebellions	9
101852972	Ming Dynasty	ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China.	10
101852973	Zhu Yanzhang	1st Self-declared founding emperor of a new Ming (Bright) dynasty and assumed the reign title of Ming Hongwu (Ming Hung Wu, or Ming Martial Emperor); lead the massive peasant rebellion of 1368	11
101852974	Ming Dynasty focus's on	agricultural reform ( grain storage)	12
101852975	Taxes on land were....	LOW (yay peasants)	13
101852976	Yellow river had ___ that maintained water	River Dikes	14
101852977	Massive Army	defended the mongols invasions	15
101852978	Mongols= Inward Policies	Banned overseas voyages, capital moved to Nanjug, no focus on trade (anti-merchant), mongol dress discarded and there buildings	16