AP World History Mongols Flashcards

5465205715	Ghengis Khan	The first great unifier and empire-builder of the Mongol people	0
5465205716	Temujin	Real name of Ghengis Khan	1
5465205717	Hulegu	Il-Khan of Persia and defeater of the Abbasid Dynasty	2
5465205718	Kipchak	Khanate of the Golden Horde (modern day western Russia)	3
5465205719	Yuan Dynasty	Chinese dynasty formed principally from Mongol conquerors	4
5465205720	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
5465205721	Battle of Ain Jalut (1260)	Battle where the Egyptian Mamluks defeated the expanding Mongols	6
5465205722	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
5465205723	Four	Number of Khanates formed after the death of Ghengis Khan	8
5465205724	Pandemic	(Disease) Prevalent over a large geographical area	9
5465205725	Kaghan	Turkic ruler; later became Sultan after the conversion to Islam	10
5465205726	Steppe	Geographical term for the great pasturelands of the Mongols which, through ill-suited for farming, were perfect for sustaining great herds	11
5465205727	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
5465205728	Xiongnu	Predecessors to the Mongos (~200BCE-200CE); long troubled the development of China	13
5465205729	Beijing	Modern name for Khanbalik, the capital of the Yuan dynasty	14
5465205730	Bedouin	Desert dwelling Arabs	15
5465205731	Modun	Precursor to Ghengis Khan as unifier of the nomadic peoples north of the Yellow River	16
5465205732	Moscow	The center of Russian power moved here from Kiev under Mongol rule	17
5465205733	Kublai Khan	Khan whose rule of China was expansive and (relatively) enlightened; hosted Marco Polo	18
5465205734	Persia	Area where Mongol rule devastated the ecology; unlike most areas of the Empire, Mongols assimilated here, many converting to Islam	19
5465205735	Han Dynasty	Chinese dynasty most affected by teh Xiongnu	20
5465205736	Karakorum	Original capital of the Mongols	21
5465205737	Kamikaze	Legend of what saved Japan from Mongol invasion	22
5465205738	Almoravid Empire	Muslim empire of Northwest Africa and the Iberian peninsula	23
5465205739	Tolerant	Word which might describe the Mongol attitude towards the diverse religions encountered across their expansive empire	24
5465205740	Ivan the Great	Russian leader who expelled Mongol rule	25
5465205741	Khan	"Leader"	26
5465205742	Pastoral	Peoples most focused on raising of herds, therefore they were often nomadic	27
5465205743	Tengri	Thunder God, God of the sky; most important god of the Mongols' shamanistic religion	28
5465205744	Yurt	What the Mongols lived in	29
5465205745	Yogurt	What the Mongols drank	30
5465205746	The bow	The Mongols' one/major technological contribution/innovation	31
5465205747	Kumiss	Mongol alcoholic drink from animal products by fermenting mare's milk into a potent concociton	32
5465205748	Chaghatai	One of Ghengis Khan's sons; his descendants ruled the khanate of Chaghatai in central Asia	33
5465205749	Quriltai	Assembly in Mongolia in which a new khan is elected	34
5465205750	Moscow		35