Vocab #82-92 AP World History Flashcards

7908159495	Genghis Khan	Mongol leader Genghis Khan (1162-1227) rose from humble beginnings to establish the largest land empire in history. united the nomadic tribes of the Mongolian plateau he conquered huge chunks of central Asia and China.	0
7908159496	Mongol Empire	the Mongol Empire existed during the 13th and 14th centuries and was the largest contiguous land empire in history	1
7908164278	Kublai Khan	Kublai was the fifth Khagan of the Mongol Empire, reigning from 1260 to 1294. He also founded the Yuan dynasty in China as a conquest dynasty in 1271, and ruled as the first Yuan emperor until his death in 1294.	2
7908168121	Timur/Tamerlane	Timur, historically known as Amir Timur and Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror. As the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia he became the first ruler in the Timurid dynasty	3
7908168122	Yuan Empire	The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan, was the empire or ruling dynasty of Mongolia established by Kublai Khan, leader of the Mongolian Borjigin clan.	4
7908172496	Il- Khan	The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate, was established as a khanate that formed the southwestern sector of the Mongol Empire, ruled by the Mongol House of Hulagu	5
7908172497	Hugelu		6
7908176222	Mamluks	Mamluk is an Arabic designation for slaves. The term is most commonly used to refer to Muslim slave soldiers and Muslim rulers of slave origin.	7
7908176223	Golden Horde	The Golden Horde was originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire	8
7908176224	Batu		9
7908180441	pax mongolica/Mongol Peace	describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural, and economic life of the inhabitants	10