Stearns AP World History Chapter 14 Flashcards

1881708787	Kuriltai	Meeting of all Mongol chieftains at which the supreme ruler of all tribes was selected	0
1881708788	Khagan	Title of the supreme ruler of the Mongol tribes	1
1881708789	Tumens	Basic fighting units of the Mongol forces; consisted of 10000 cavalrymen; each unit was further divided into units of 1000, 100, and 10	2
1881708790	Batu	Ruler of Golden Horde; one of Chinggis Khan's grandsons; responsible for invasion of Russia beginning in 1236	3
1881708791	Ogedei	(1186-1241) Third son of Chinggis Khan; succeeded Chinggis Khan as khagan of the Mongols following his father's death	4
1881708792	Golden Horde	One of the four subdivisions of the Mongol Enjoy after Chinggis Khan's death, originally ruled by his grandson Batu; territory covered much of what is today south central Russia	5
1881708793	Battle of Kulikova	Russian army victory over the forces of the Golden Horde; helped break Mongol hold over Russia	6
1881708794	Prester John	In legends popular from 12th to 17th century, a mythical Christian monarch whose kingdom was cut off from Europe by Muslim conquests; Chinggis Khan was originally believed to be this mythical ruler	7
1881708795	Kubilai Khan	(1215-1294) Grandson of Chinggis Khan; commander of Mongol forces responsible for conquest of China; became khagan in 1260; established Sinicized Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1271	8
1881708796	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	9
1881708797	Timur-i Lang	Also known as Tamerlane; leader of Turkic nomads; beginning in 1360s from base at Samarkand, launched series of attacks in Persia, the Fertile Crescent, India, and southern Russia; empire disintegrated after his death on 1405	10
1881708798	Nomadic Lifestyle	Lifestyle that involves traveling from place to place and depending on herd	11
1881708799	Tribute	A payment made periodically by one state or ruler to another; especially as a sign of dependence	12
1881708800	Yuan Dynasty	(1279-1368) Dynasty in China set up by the Mongols under the leadership of Kublai Khan; replaced the Song	13
1881708801	Chinggis Khan	Born in 1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all Mongol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China, territories as far west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227 prior to conquest of most of the Islamic world	14
1881708802	Tatars	Mongols who captured Russian cities and destroyed the Kievan state in 1236	15
1881708803	Marco Polo	Venetian merchant and traveler; accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade; served Kublai Khan	16
1881708804	Muhammad Shah II	The Turkic ruler of Khwarazm; attempted to resist the Mongol conquest by Chingiss Khan but failed; fled and left his people and would later die on a island in the Caspian Sea	17
1881708805	Alexander Nevskii	Prince of Novgorod; submitted to the invading Mongols in 1240 and received recognition as the leader of the Russian princes under the Golden Horde	18