Chapter 14 Vocab World Civilizations The Global Experience (AP & 6th Edition) Flashcards
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| 5522255856 | Kuriltai | Meeting of the Mongol Chieftains at which the supreme ruler of all tribes was selected. | 0 | |
| 5522255857 | Khagan | Title of the supreme ruler of all the Mongol tribes. | 1 | |
| 5522255858 | Tumens | Basic fighting units of the Mongol forces; consisted of 10,000 cavalrymen; each unit was further divided into units of 1000, 100, & 10. | 2 | |
| 5522255859 | Karakorum | Capital of the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan, 1162 to 1227. | 3 | |
| 5522255860 | Batu | Ruler of golden Horde; one of the Genghis Khan's grandsons; responsible for the invasion of Russia beginning in at 12:36. | 4 | |
| 5522255861 | Ogedei | (1186 - 1241) Third son of Genghis Khan; succeeded Genghis Khan as Khagan of the Mongols following his father's death. | 5 | |
| 5522255862 | Golden Horde | One of the four subdivisions of the Mongol Empire after Genghis Khan's death, originally ruled by his grandson Batu; territory covered much of what is today South Central Russia. | 6 | |
| 5522255863 | Khanates | Four Regional Mongol kingdoms that arose following the death of Genghis Khan. | 7 | |
| 5522255864 | Battle of Kulikova | Russian army victory over the forces of the Golden Horde; help break Mongo hold over Russia. | 8 | |
| 5522255865 | Prester, John | In Legends popular from 1100s to 1600s, a mythical Christian Monarch whose kingdom was cut off from Europe by Muslim conquests; Genghis Khan was originally believed to be this mythical ruler. | 9 | |
| 5522255866 | Bailbars | (1223 - 1277) Commander of the forces at Ain Jalut in 1260; originally enslaved by Mongols and sold to Egyptians. | 10 | |
| 5522255867 | Berke | (1257 - 1266) A ruler of the Golden Horde; his threats to Hulagu combined with the growing power of the Mamluks in Egypt forestalled further Mongol conquest in the Middle East. | 11 | |
| 5522255868 | Kubilai Khan | (1215 - 1294) Grandson of Genghis Khan; commander of Mongol forces responsible for conquest of China; became khagan in 1260; established synchronized Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1271. | 12 | |
| 5522255869 | Dadu | Present-day Beijing; so cold when Kubilai Khan ruled China | 13 | |
| 5522255870 | Chabi | Influential wife of Kubilai Khan; promoted interests of Buddhists in China; end dictating of refusal of Mongol women to adopt restrictive social conventions of Chinese; died approximately 1281. | 14 | |
| 5522255871 | Romance of West Chamber | Chinese novel written during the Yaun Period; indicative of the continuing literal vitality of Chinese during Mongol rule. | 15 | |
| 5522255872 | White Lotus Society | Secret religious Society dedicated to the overthrowing of the Yuan dynasty in China; typical of peasant resistance to Mongol rule. | 16 | |
| 5522255873 | Yuanzhang, Zhu | the given name of Hongwu emperor, the founder of the Ming dynasty. | 17 | |
| 5522255874 | Ming dynasty | 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. | 18 | |
| 5522255875 | Timur-i Lang | also known as Tamerlane; leader of Turkic nomads; beginning in 1360 from base at Samarkand, launch series of attacks in Persia, the Fertile Crescent, India, and Southern Russia; Empire disintegrated after his death in 1405. | 19 |