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22 Cards in this Set
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Mongols |
Nomads in northern Eurasia, est. an enormous empire under Genghis Khan |
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Genghis Khan |
The titleof Temüjin, ruler of Mongols, founder of the Mongol Empire |
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Nomadism |
A way of life,forced by a scarcity of resources, people continually migrate to find pastures and water |
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Yuan Empire |
Empire in China and Siberia created by Khu-bilai Khan |
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Bubonic Plague |
Flea-transmitted bacterial disease |
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Il-khan |
A “secondary” or“peripheral” khan based in Persia that controlled much ofIran and Iraq |
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Golden Horde |
A Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan’s grandson Batu |
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Timur |
A member of the Mongols’ Jagadai Khanate family |
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Rashid al-Din |
The Il-khan ruler Ghazan's adviser, made Ghazan convert to Islam |
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Nasir al-Din Tusi |
Persian mathematician and cosmologist, helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system |
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Alexander Nevskii |
Prince of Novgorod, leader of the Russian princes under the Golden Horde |
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Tsar |
Russian title for a monarch |
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Ottoman Empire |
Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia, encompassed lands in theMiddle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe |
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Khubilai Khan |
The last ofthe Mongol Great Khans and the founder of the Yuan Empire |
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Lama |
A teacher |
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Beijing |
China’s northern capital, now the capital of the People’s Republic of China |
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Ming Empire |
Empire in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the over-throw of the Yuan Empire, |
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Yongle |
The third emperor of the Ming Empire, he sponsored the building of the Forbidden City, the expeditions of Zheng He, and the reopening of China’s borders to trade and travel |
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Zheng He |
An imperial eunuch and Muslim, knew Yongle and let him use his ships for voyages |
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Yi |
A dynasty that ruled Korea |
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Kamikaze |
“Divine wind", Japanese blew Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281 |
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Ashikaga Shogunate |
The second of Japan’s military governments headed by a shogun |