WHAP ch 13 Vocab Flashcards

13868740	Nomadism	a way of life forced by a scarcity of food	0
13868741	Importance of nomadism:	the Mongols were nomads, which allowed them to move quickly.	1
13868742	Bubonic Plague	the Black Death	2
13868743	Importance to Bubonic Plague	wiped out 1/3 of Europe's population	3
13868744	Il-khan	A Mongol realm	4
13868745	Golden Horde	A Mongol realm	5
13868746	Importance of Il-khan	fought the Golden Horde; Buddhists	6
13868747	Importance of Golden Horde	fought the Il-khan; Muslim	7
13868748	Rashid al-Din	a convert of Judaism to Shi'a Islam	8
13868749	importance of Rashid al-Din	converted Il-Khans to Muslims	9
13868750	Tax farming	corporations taxed people and sent it to the government; kept some for selves.	10
13868751	Importance of tax farming	Effective way of collecting taxes	11
13868752	Timur	the Jagadai Khanate	12
13868753	Importance of Timer	lead brutal campains in Western Europe	13
13868754	Ibn Khaldun	Moroccan historian and geographer	14
13868755	Nasir al-Din Tusi	trusted adviser to l-Khan HulgeguI	15
13868756	Alexander Nevskii	Prince of Novgorod	16
13868757	Importance of Alexander Nevskii	aided in the Mongol conquest by persuading many Russian princes to submit rather than resist	17
13868758	Tsar	Rulers of Russia	18
13868759	Importance of tsar	used to show that Russia should be ruled by Russians and not from afar.	19
13868760	Ottomans	Turks who had come from Anatolia in the same migration of the Seljuks	20
13868761	Importance of Ottomans	Conquered Constantinople and killed last Byzantine emperor	21
13868762	Mamluks	Military slaves	22
13868763	Importance of mamluks	grew stronger and centralized by resisting Mongol advance	23
13868764	Genghis Khan	"Supreme leader"	24
13868765	Importance of Genghis Khan	Ruler of the Mongols	25
13868766	Mongols	nomadic empire	26
13868767	Importance of Mongols	massive, powerful empire	27
13868768	Steppes	Dry, high plains	28