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Mongols

Nomads in northern Eurasia, est. an enormous empire under Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan

The titleof Temüjin, ruler of Mongols, founder of the Mongol Empire

Nomadism

A way of life,forced by a scarcity of resources, people continually migrate to find pastures and water

Yuan Empire

Empire in China and Siberia created by Khu-bilai Khan

Bubonic Plague

Flea-transmitted bacterial disease

Il-khan

A “secondary” or“peripheral” khan based in Persia that controlled much ofIran and Iraq

Golden Horde

A Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan’s grandson Batu

Timur

A member of the Mongols’ Jagadai Khanate family

Rashid al-Din

The Il-khan ruler Ghazan's adviser, made Ghazan convert to Islam

Nasir al-Din Tusi

Persian mathematician and cosmologist, helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system

Alexander Nevskii

Prince of Novgorod, leader of the Russian princes under the Golden Horde

Tsar

Russian title for a monarch

Ottoman Empire

Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia, encompassed lands in theMiddle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe

Khubilai Khan

The last ofthe Mongol Great Khans and the founder of the Yuan Empire

Lama

A teacher

Beijing

China’s northern capital, now the capital of the People’s Republic of China

Ming Empire

Empire in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the over-throw of the Yuan Empire,

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

Zheng He

An imperial eunuch and Muslim, knew Yongle and let him use his ships for voyages

Yi

A dynasty that ruled Korea

Kamikaze

“Divine wind", Japanese blew Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281

Ashikaga Shogunate

The second of Japan’s military governments headed by a shogun