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10 Cards in this Set
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Kubilai Khan
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Genghis Khan’s grandson established the Mongol Yuan Empire
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Lamas
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Buddhists priests from Tibet
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Beijing
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Yuan capital and center of cultural and economic life of the Yuan Empire
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Shangdu/Xanadu
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Kubilai Khan’s summer retreat in Mongolia. Called Xanadu by an English poet a “stately pleasure dome” the hunting preserve where Kubilai practiced riding and shooting.
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Social Hierarchy of the Yuan Dynasty
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Highest/Mongols, Central Asians, Middle easterners, northern Chinese, lowest southern Chinese
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Why it is hard for historians to have an accurate portrayal of the Chinese economy during the Yuan Dynasty
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scarcity of records and hostility of later Chinese writers about the Yuan
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Currency Yuan Dynasty
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When paper currency failed they used copper coinage
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Why the countryside of China did poorly under the Mongols
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Mongol princes had evicted or over taxed the farmers who were left homeless. Dams and Dikes were neglected which caused flooding of the Yellow River.
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Types of cultural and scientific exchanges btw il khan in Iran and the Yuan China
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Il khan engineering, astronomy and mathematics to China. Chinese painters taught Iranian artists new ways of drawing clouds, rocks, and trees. Iranians helped Chinese build an observatory.
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Zhu Yuanzhang
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destroyed the Yuan empire and established the Ming Empire in China.
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