Chapter 12 History Terms Flashcards

270509992	Genghis Khan	The title of Temujin when he ruled the Mongols. It means the "oceanic" or "universal" leader	0
270509993	Mongols	people living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under Genghis Khan, linking western and eastern Eurasia.	1
270509994	Nomadism	A way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water.	2
270509995	Bubonic Plague	A bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans; humans can spread it through coughing.	3
270509996	Il-Khan	A "secondary" or "peripheral" khan based in Persia. The Il-Khans' khanate was founded by Hulegu, a grandson of Genghis Khan, and was based at Tabriz in modern Azerbaijan. It controlled much of Iraq and Iran.	4
270509997	Golden Horde	Mongol Khanate founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde.	5
270509998	Yuan Empire	Empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan.	6
270509999	Zheng-He	An imperial eunuch and Muslim , 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.	7
270510000	Beijing	China's northern capital, first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China.	8
270510001	Kamikaze	the "divine wind" which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281.	9
270510002	Alexander Nevsky	Russian saint and national hero named after the Neva River, where he defeated the Swedes in 1240.	10
270510003	Tsar	From Latin "Caesar", this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian rule by Ivan II	11
270510004	Ottomans	Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, it was based at Istanbul from 1453 to 1922, encompassing lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and easten Europe.	12
270510005	Lama	In Tibetan Buddhism, a teacher.	13
270510006	Kublai Khan	Mongol emperor of China; grandson of Genghis Khan. He led the conquest of China and founded the Yuan dynasty.	14
270510007	Yi Kingdom	The Yi dynasty ruled Korea from the fall of the Koryo kingdom to the colonization of Korea by Japan.	15
270510008	Ming Empire	Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire.	16