Ap world history vocab Flashcards

11934109256	mongol world war	term used to describe a half a century of military campaigns massive killing and empire building pursed by Gengis Khan and his successors in Eurasia after 1209	0
11934109257	Khubilai Khan	Grandson of Chinggis Khan who ruled China from 1271 to 1294.	1
11934109258	Khutulun	a mongol princess whose exploits in battle and wrestling along with her choice of husbands provide insight into the relative freedom and influence of the elite mongol women in their societies	2
11934109259	Genghis Khan	title meaning "universal ruler" that was given to the Mongol leader Temujin in 1206 after he united the mongols	3
11934109260	pastoralism	way of life in which people depend on the herding of domesticated animals for their food	4
11934109261	Yuan Dynasty	mongol dynasty that rules China from 1271-1368 name means "great beginnings"	5
11934109262	Turks	created a series of nomadic empires b/t 552 and 965 CE had more of an impact on world history when they became dominant in the Islamic heartland and founded a series of states and empires there	6
11934109263	Pastoralism	alternative kind of food-producing economy focused on the raising of livestock emerged only in the Afro-Eurasia world	7
11934109264	Roman Cathlic Church	by the 11th century Western Christendom defined itself in centralized terms with the bishop of rome(pope) as the ultimate authority in matters of doctrine	8
11934109265	Byzantine Empire	The surviving eastern Roman Empire during the medieval centuries	9
11934109266	Caesaropapism	A political-religious system in which the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment,	10
11934109267	Justinian	byzantine emperor noted for his short lived reconquest of much of the former western Roman empire for his codification of Roman law	11
11934109268	Kievan Rus	state that emerged around the city of Kiev in the 9th century CE a culturally diverse region that included Vikings as well at Finnic and Baltic people	12
11934109269	Crusades	Modern term meaning "ventures of the cross," used to describe the "holy wars" waged by Western Christendom from 1095 until the end of the Middle Ages and beyond	13
11934109270	Eastern Orthodox Church	Branch of Christianity that developed in the eastern Roman empire and gradually separated mostly on matters of practice from the branch of Christianity dominant in Western Europe	14
11934109271	Constantinople	New capital for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, established by Emperor Constantine in 330 C.E. on the site of the ancient Byzantine	15
11934109272	Holy Roman Empire	Term invented in the twelfth century to describe the Germany-based empire founded by Otto I in 962 C.E.	16
11934109273	icons	Holy images venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church.	17
11934109274	Aztec Empire	Major state that developed in what is now Mexico in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; dominated by the seminomadic Mexica, who had migrated into the region from northern Mexico.	18
11934109275	Seizure of Constantinople (1453)	Capital of Byzantine Empire fell to the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II "the conqueror" and marked the end of Christian Byzantium	19
11934109276	European Renaissance	A "rebirth" of classical learning that is most often associated with the cultural blossoming of Italy in the period 1350-1500 and that included not just a rediscovery of Greek learning but also major developments in art, as well as growing secularism in society.	20
11934109277	Inca Empire	The Western Hemisphere's largest imperial state in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; built by a relatively small community of Quechua-speaking people (the Inca), the empire stretched some 2,500 miles along the Andes Mountains,and contained perhaps 10 million subjects.	21
11939756821	Ming Dynasty	Chinese dynasty (1368-1644) that succeeded the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols; noted for its return to traditional Chinese ways and restoration of the land after the destructiveness of the Mongols.	22
11939756822	Mughal Empire	One of the most successful empires of India, a state founded by an islamized Turkic group who invaded India in 1526; their rule was noted for efforts to create partnerships between Hindus and Muslims.	23
11939756823	Ottoman Empire	Major Islamic state centered on Anatolia that came to include the Balkans, the Near East, and much of North Africa.	24
11939756824	Paleolithic persistence	The continuance of gathering and hunting societies in substantial areas of the world despite millennia of agricultural advance.	25
11939756825	pocheca	professional merchants in the Aztec Empire whose wealth often elevated them to the elite status	26
11939756826	Safavid Empire	Major Turkic empire of Persia founded in the early sixteenth century, notable for its efforts to convert its populace to Shia Islam.	27
11939756827	Songhay Empire	Major Islamic state of West Africa that formed in the second half of the fifteenth century.	28
11939756828	Timur	Turkic warrior also known as Tamerlane, whose efforts to restore the Mongol Empire devastated much of Persia, Russia and India	29
11939756829	Zheng He	Great Chinese admiral who commanded a fleet of more than 300 ships in a series of voyages of contact and exploration that began 1405	30