AP World History Mongols Flashcards

11355019354	Ghengis Khan	The first great unifier and empire-builder of the Mongol people Tiltle bestowed upon him.	0
11355019355	Temujin	which was the Real name of Ghengis Khan 1167-1227	1
11355019356	Hulegu	Il-Khan of Persia and defeater of the Abbasid Dynasty	2
11355019357	Kipchak	Khanate of the Golden Horde (modern day western Russia)	3
11355019358	Yuan Dynasty	Chinese dynasty formed principally from Mongol conquerors	4
11355019359	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
11355019360	Battle of Ain Jalut (1260)	Battle where the Egyptian Mamluks defeated the expanding Mongols	6
11355019361	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
11355019362	Four	Number of Khanates formed after the death of Ghengis Khan	8
11355019363	Pandemic	(Disease) Prevalent over a large geographical area	9
11355019364	Kaghan	Turkic ruler; later became Sultan after the conversion to Islam	10
11355019365	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
11355019366	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
11355019367	Xiongnu	Predecessors to the Mongos (~200BCE-200CE); long troubled the development of China	13
11355019368	Beijing	Modern name for Khanbalik, the capital of the Yuan dynasty	14
11355019369	Bedouin	Desert dwelling Arabs	15
11355019370	Modun	Precursor to Ghengis Khan as unifier of the nomadic peoples north of the Yellow River	16
11355019371	Moscow	The center of Russian power moved here from Kiev under Mongol rule	17
11355019372	Kublai Khan	Khan whose rule of China was expansive and (relatively) enlightened; hosted Marco Polo	18
11355019373	Persia	Area where Mongol rule devastated the ecology; unlike most areas of the Empire, Mongols assimilated here, many converting to Islam	19
11355019374	Han Dynasty	Chinese dynasty most affected by teh Xiongnu	20
11355019375	Karakorum	Original capital of the Mongols	21
11355019376	Kamikaze	Legend of what saved Japan from Mongol invasion	22
11355019377	Almoravid Empire	Muslim empire of Northwest Africa and the Iberian peninsula	23
11355019378	Tolerant	Word which might describe the Mongol attitude towards the diverse religions encountered across their expansive empire	24
11355019379	Ivan the Great	Russian leader who expelled Mongol rule	25
11355019380	Khan	"Leader"	26
11355019381	Pastoral	Peoples most focused on raising of herds, therefore they were often nomadic	27
11355019382	Tengri	Thunder God, God of the sky; most important god of the Mongols' shamanistic religion	28
11355019383	Yurt	What the Mongols lived in	29
11355019384	Yogurt	What the Mongols drank	30
11355019385	The bow	The Mongols' one/major technological contribution/innovation	31
11355019386	Kumiss	Mongol alcoholic drink from animal products by fermenting mare's milk into a potent concociton	32
11355019387	Chaghatai	One of Ghengis Khan's sons; his descendants ruled the khanate of Chaghatai in central Asia also took Korea	33
11355019388	Quriltai	Assembly in Mongolia in which a new khan is elected	34
11355019389	Tumen	Units of 10,000 soldiers	35
11355019390	Yasa	Mongol code of law which regulated: taxes, no private matters, Murder:treason, unity and loyalty.	36
11355019391	Empire of Khwarezm	Led by Ala Al-Din Muhammad Empire which Ghengis Khan obliterated.	37
11355019392	Mongolian Empire	Largest empire in world history.	38