AP World History Mongols Flashcards

6489011704	Ghengis Khan	The first great unifier and empire-builder of the Mongol people Tiltle bestowed upon him.	0
6489011705	Temujin	which was the Real name of Ghengis Khan 1167-1227	1
6489011706	Hulegu	Il-Khan of Persia and defeater of the Abbasid Dynasty	2
6489011707	Kipchak	Khanate of the Golden Horde (modern day western Russia)	3
6489011708	Yuan Dynasty	Chinese dynasty formed principally from Mongol conquerors	4
6489011709	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
6489011710	Battle of Ain Jalut (1260)	Battle where the Egyptian Mamluks defeated the expanding Mongols	6
6489011711	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
6489011712	Four	Number of Khanates formed after the death of Ghengis Khan	8
6489011713	Pandemic	(Disease) Prevalent over a large geographical area	9
6489011714	Kaghan	Turkic ruler; later became Sultan after the conversion to Islam	10
6489011715	Steppe	Geographical term for the great pasturelands of the Mongols which, through ill-suited for farming, were perfect for sustaining great herds. This is where Temujin was born	11
6489011716	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
6489011717	Xiongnu	Predecessors to the Mongos (~200BCE-200CE); long troubled the development of China	13
6489011718	Beijing	Modern name for Khanbalik, the capital of the Yuan dynasty	14
6489011719	Bedouin	Desert dwelling Arabs	15
6489011720	Modun	Precursor to Ghengis Khan as unifier of the nomadic peoples north of the Yellow River	16
6489011721	Moscow	The center of Russian power moved here from Kiev under Mongol rule	17
6489011722	Kublai Khan	Khan whose rule of China was expansive and (relatively) enlightened; hosted Marco Polo	18
6489011723	Persia	Area where Mongol rule devastated the ecology; unlike most areas of the Empire, Mongols assimilated here, many converting to Islam	19
6489011724	Han Dynasty	Chinese dynasty most affected by teh Xiongnu	20
6489011725	Karakorum	Original capital of the Mongols	21
6489011726	Kamikaze	Legend of what saved Japan from Mongol invasion	22
6489011727	Almoravid Empire	Muslim empire of Northwest Africa and the Iberian peninsula	23
6489011728	Tolerant	Word which might describe the Mongol attitude towards the diverse religions encountered across their expansive empire	24
6489011729	Ivan the Great	Russian leader who expelled Mongol rule	25
6489011730	Khan	"Leader"	26
6489011731	Pastoral	Peoples most focused on raising of herds, therefore they were often nomadic	27
6489011732	Tengri	Thunder God, God of the sky; most important god of the Mongols' shamanistic religion	28
6489011733	Yurt	What the Mongols lived in	29
6489011734	Yogurt	What the Mongols drank	30
6489011735	The bow	The Mongols' one/major technological contribution/innovation	31
6489011736	Kumiss	Mongol alcoholic drink from animal products by fermenting mare's milk into a potent concociton	32
6489011737	Chaghatai	One of Ghengis Khan's sons; his descendants ruled the khanate of Chaghatai in central Asia also took Korea	33
6489011738	Quriltai	Assembly in Mongolia in which a new khan is elected	34
6489011739	Tumen	Units of 10,000 soldiers	35
6489073645	Yasa	Mongol code of law which regulated: taxes, no private matters, Murder:treason, unity and loyalty.	36
6489236995	Empire of Khwarezm	Led by Ala Al-Din Muhammad Empire which Ghengis Khan obliterated.	37
6489404208	Mongolian Empire	Largest empire in world history.	38