AP World History Mongols Flashcards

12407631056	Ghengis Khan	The first great unifier and empire-builder of the Mongol people Tiltle bestowed upon him.	0
12407631057	Temujin	which was the Real name of Ghengis Khan 1167-1227	1
12407631058	Hulegu	Il-Khan of Persia and defeater of the Abbasid Dynasty	2
12407631059	Kipchak	Khanate of the Golden Horde (modern day western Russia)	3
12407631060	Yuan Dynasty	Chinese dynasty formed principally from Mongol conquerors	4
12407631061	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
12407631062	Battle of Ain Jalut (1260)	Battle where the Egyptian Mamluks defeated the expanding Mongols	6
12407631063	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
12407631064	Four	Number of Khanates formed after the death of Ghengis Khan	8
12407631065	Pandemic	(Disease) Prevalent over a large geographical area	9
12407631066	Kaghan	Turkic ruler; later became Sultan after the conversion to Islam	10
12407631067	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
12407631068	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
12407631069	Xiongnu	Predecessors to the Mongos (~200BCE-200CE); long troubled the development of China	13
12407631070	Beijing	Modern name for Khanbalik, the capital of the Yuan dynasty	14
12407631071	Bedouin	Desert dwelling Arabs	15
12407631072	Modun	Precursor to Ghengis Khan as unifier of the nomadic peoples north of the Yellow River	16
12407631073	Moscow	The center of Russian power moved here from Kiev under Mongol rule	17
12407631074	Kublai Khan	Khan whose rule of China was expansive and (relatively) enlightened; hosted Marco Polo	18
12407631075	Persia	Area where Mongol rule devastated the ecology; unlike most areas of the Empire, Mongols assimilated here, many converting to Islam	19
12407631076	Han Dynasty	Chinese dynasty most affected by teh Xiongnu	20
12407631077	Karakorum	Original capital of the Mongols	21
12407631078	Kamikaze	Legend of what saved Japan from Mongol invasion	22
12407631079	Almoravid Empire	Muslim empire of Northwest Africa and the Iberian peninsula	23
12407631080	Tolerant	Word which might describe the Mongol attitude towards the diverse religions encountered across their expansive empire	24
12407631081	Ivan the Great	Russian leader who expelled Mongol rule	25
12407631082	Khan	"Leader"	26
12407631083	Pastoral	Peoples most focused on raising of herds, therefore they were often nomadic	27
12407631084	Tengri	Thunder God, God of the sky; most important god of the Mongols' shamanistic religion	28
12407631085	Yurt	What the Mongols lived in	29
12407631086	Yogurt	What the Mongols drank	30
12407631087	The bow	The Mongols' one/major technological contribution/innovation	31
12407631088	Kumiss	Mongol alcoholic drink from animal products by fermenting mare's milk into a potent concociton	32
12407631089	Chaghatai	One of Ghengis Khan's sons; his descendants ruled the khanate of Chaghatai in central Asia also took Korea	33
12407631090	Quriltai	Assembly in Mongolia in which a new khan is elected	34
12407631091	Tumen	Units of 10,000 soldiers	35
12407631092	Yasa	Mongol code of law which regulated: taxes, no private matters, Murder:treason, unity and loyalty.	36
12407631093	Empire of Khwarezm	Led by Ala Al-Din Muhammad Empire which Ghengis Khan obliterated.	37
12407631094	Mongolian Empire	Largest empire in world history.	38