Chap. 12 Flashcards

96887705	Mongols	people of this name is mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire, living as nomads in northern Eurasia.	0
96887706	Genghis Khan	universal leader. Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire	1
96887707	nomadism	A way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.	2
96887708	Yuan empire	(1271-1368) Empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan.	3
96887709	bubonic plague	A bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans	4
96887710	IL-Khan	"peripheral khan based in Persia. The Il-khans' khanate was founded by Hülegü, a grandson of Genghis Khan	5
96887711	Golden Horde	Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu.	6
96887712	Timur	Member of a prominent family of the Mongols' Jagadai Khanate, Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran.	7
96887713	Rashid al-Din	Adviser to the Il-khan ruler Ghazan, who converted to Islam on Rashid's advice.	8
96887714	Nasir al-Din Tusi	(1201-1274) Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.	9
96887715	Alexander Nevskii	...	10
96887716	tsar	(czar) From Latincaesar, this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505).	11
96887717	Ottoman Empire	Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia ca. 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453 to 1922.	12
96887718	Kubilai Khan	...	13
96887719	lama	In Tibetan Buddhism, a teacher	14
96887720	Beijing	China's northern capital, first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.	15
96887721	Ming Empire	Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire.	16
96887722	Yongle	Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424), the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).	17
96887723	Zheng He	1371-1433) 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.	18
96887724	Yi	(1392-1910) The Yi dynasty ruled Korea from the fall of the Koryo kingdom to the colonization of Korea by Japan.	19
96887725	kamikaze	the "divine wind, which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.	20
96887726	Ashikaga Shogunate	(1336-1573) The second of Japan's military governments headed by a shogun (a military ruler).	21