chapter 13: Western Eurasia Flashcards
vocabulary
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| 38830535 | Genghis Khan | supreme leader of the mongols (Temujin 1206) | 0 | |
| 38830536 | Keraits | Turkic speakers strong interest in Christianity and Buddhism | 1 | |
| 38830537 | Nomadism | way of life forced by scarcity of resources | 2 | |
| 38830538 | khan | the leader. decisions ratified by a council | 3 | |
| 38830539 | bubonic plague | carried by flea infested rats | 4 | |
| 38830540 | il-Khan Empire, khanate of the golden horde | distinct mongol realms established in western eurasia | 5 | |
| 38830541 | golden horde | mongols who conquered s. russia. capital @ Sarai (Volga River) | 6 | |
| 38830542 | halal (Islamic practice) | Islamic code of cleanliness required draining of blood from carcass | 7 | |
| 38830543 | Rashid al-Din | Ghazan's prime minister and confident Shi'a Islam convert | 8 | |
| 38830544 | tax farming | corporations employed by govt. extracted crops from farmers to give to mongols | 9 | |
| 38830545 | Timur | Jagadai Khanate.last gr8 central asian conqueror | 10 | |
| 38874712 | Ibn Khaldun | a morrocan who was the gr8test historian and geographer of his time | 11 | |
| 38874713 | Nasir al-Din | Shi'ite.major contributions in cosmology and mathematics | 12 | |
| 38874714 | denga | Russian word for money | 13 | |
| 38874715 | tamga | mongolian word for stamp | 14 | |
| 38874716 | Alexander Nevskii | prince of Novgorod urgred many Russian princes to submit to Mongols | 15 | |
| 38874717 | tsar | foreign rulers l8er russian rulers | 16 | |
| 38874718 | Ottomans | turks who came to anatolia in same migrations as Seljuks | 17 | |
| 38874719 | mamluks (Abbasid) | Abbasid: military slaves | 18 | |
| 38874720 | Mamluks | empire in Egypt, Syria est.1250, regime and ruling class | 19 |