AP World History Mongols Flashcards

3777177550	Ghengis Khan	The first great unifier and empire-builder of the Mongol people	0
3777182711	Temujin	Real name of Ghengis Khan	1
3777186213	Hulegu	Il-Khan of Persia and defeater of the Abbasid Dynasty	2
3777190659	Kipchak	Khanate of the Golden Horde (modern day western Russia)	3
3777204849	Yuan Dynasty	Chinese dynasty formed principally from Mongol conquerors	4
3777209521	Ghazan	Ruler of the Persian Khanate who converted to Islam and attempted to undo some of the ecological and relational damage of previous Mongol rulers	5
3777215291	Battle of Ain Jalut (1260)	Battle where the Egyptian Mamluks defeated the expanding Mongols	6
3777218684	Attila the Hun	Leader of the Huns, which might have been an offshoot of the Xiongnu peoples and whose Empire stretched from the Germanic states to the Caspian Sea in the 5th century	7
3777225966	Four	Number of Khanates formed after the death of Ghengis Khan	8
3777231069	Pandemic	(Disease) Prevalent over a large geographical area	9
3777232949	Kaghan	Turkic ruler; later became Sultan after the conversion to Islam	10
3777235272	Steppe	Geographical term for the great pasturelands of the Mongols which, through ill-suited for farming, were perfect for sustaining great herds	11
3777239101	Ogodai	Khan whose death may have spared Europe--the Mongol leaders were required to return to the East in the midst of European conquest	12
3777251144	Xiongnu	Predecessors to the Mongos (~200BCE-200CE); long troubled the development of China	13
3777255711	Beijing	Modern name for Khanbalik, the capital of the Yuan dynasty	14
3777261471	Bedouin	Desert dwelling Arabs	15
3777263051	Modun	Precursor to Ghengis Khan as unifier of the nomadic peoples north of the Yellow River	16
3777269894	Moscow	The center of Russian power moved here from Kiev under Mongol rule	17
3777271393	Kublai Khan	Khan whose rule of China was expansive and (relatively) enlightened; hosted Marco Polo	18
3777274241	Persia	Area where Mongol rule devastated the ecology; unlike most areas of the Empire, Mongols assimilated here, many converting to Islam	19
3777303665	Han Dynasty	Chinese dynasty most affected by teh Xiongnu	20
3777306837	Karakorum	Original capital of the Mongols	21
3777310203	Kamikaze	Legend of what saved Japan from Mongol invasion	22
3777313371	Almoravid Empire	Muslim empire of Northwest Africa and the Iberian peninsula	23
3777314896	Tolerant	Word which might describe the Mongol attitude towards the diverse religions encountered across their expansive empire	24
3777321033	Ivan the Great	Russian leader who expelled Mongol rule	25
3777322745	Khan	"Leader"	26
3777322746	Pastoral	Peoples most focused on raising of herds, therefore they were often nomadic	27
3777458210	Tengri	Thunder God, God of the sky; most important god of the Mongols' shamanistic religion	28
3777465350	Yurt	What the Mongols lived in	29
3777466997	Yogurt	What the Mongols drank	30
3777477925	The bow	The Mongols' one/major technological contribution/innovation	31
3777503270	Kumiss	Mongol alcoholic drink from animal products by fermenting mare's milk into a potent concociton	32
3777692788	Chaghatai	One of Ghengis Khan's sons; his descendants ruled the khanate of Chaghatai in central Asia	33
3777794607	Quriltai	Assembly in Mongolia in which a new khan is elected	34
3777265993	Moscow		35