AP World History Mongols Flashcards

8473144783	Ghengis Khan	The first great unifier and empire-builder of the Mongol people Tiltle bestowed upon him.	0
8473144784	Temujin	which was the Real name of Ghengis Khan 1167-1227	1
8473144785	Hulegu	Il-Khan of Persia and defeater of the Abbasid Dynasty	2
8473144786	Kipchak	Khanate of the Golden Horde (modern day western Russia)	3
8473144787	Yuan Dynasty	Chinese dynasty formed principally from Mongol conquerors	4
8473144788	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
8473144789	Battle of Ain Jalut (1260)	Battle where the Egyptian Mamluks defeated the expanding Mongols	6
8473144790	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
8473144791	Four	Number of Khanates formed after the death of Ghengis Khan	8
8473144792	Pandemic	(Disease) Prevalent over a large geographical area	9
8473144793	Kaghan	Turkic ruler; later became Sultan after the conversion to Islam	10
8473144794	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
8473144795	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
8473144796	Xiongnu	Predecessors to the Mongos (~200BCE-200CE); long troubled the development of China	13
8473144797	Beijing	Modern name for Khanbalik, the capital of the Yuan dynasty	14
8473144798	Bedouin	Desert dwelling Arabs	15
8473144799	Modun	Precursor to Ghengis Khan as unifier of the nomadic peoples north of the Yellow River	16
8473144800	Moscow	The center of Russian power moved here from Kiev under Mongol rule	17
8473144801	Kublai Khan	Khan whose rule of China was expansive and (relatively) enlightened; hosted Marco Polo	18
8473144802	Persia	Area where Mongol rule devastated the ecology; unlike most areas of the Empire, Mongols assimilated here, many converting to Islam	19
8473144803	Han Dynasty	Chinese dynasty most affected by teh Xiongnu	20
8473144804	Karakorum	Original capital of the Mongols	21
8473144805	Kamikaze	Legend of what saved Japan from Mongol invasion	22
8473144806	Almoravid Empire	Muslim empire of Northwest Africa and the Iberian peninsula	23
8473144807	Tolerant	Word which might describe the Mongol attitude towards the diverse religions encountered across their expansive empire	24
8473144808	Ivan the Great	Russian leader who expelled Mongol rule	25
8473144809	Khan	"Leader"	26
8473144810	Pastoral	Peoples most focused on raising of herds, therefore they were often nomadic	27
8473144811	Tengri	Thunder God, God of the sky; most important god of the Mongols' shamanistic religion	28
8473144812	Yurt	What the Mongols lived in	29
8473144813	Yogurt	What the Mongols drank	30
8473144814	The bow	The Mongols' one/major technological contribution/innovation	31
8473144815	Kumiss	Mongol alcoholic drink from animal products by fermenting mare's milk into a potent concociton	32
8473144816	Chaghatai	One of Ghengis Khan's sons; his descendants ruled the khanate of Chaghatai in central Asia also took Korea	33
8473144817	Quriltai	Assembly in Mongolia in which a new khan is elected	34
8473144818	Tumen	Units of 10,000 soldiers	35
8473144819	Yasa	Mongol code of law which regulated: taxes, no private matters, Murder:treason, unity and loyalty.	36
8473144820	Empire of Khwarezm	Led by Ala Al-Din Muhammad Empire which Ghengis Khan obliterated.	37
8473144821	Mongolian Empire	Largest empire in world history.	38