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Chapter 12 Mongol
The Rise of the mongols
Question | Answer |
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A way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water | Nomadism |
Empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan | Yuan Empire |
A bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans. Can be spread by coughing and it has a high mortality rate which is difficult to prevent spreading and has caused outbreaks | Buonic Plague |
A "secondary" or "Peripheral" khan based in Persia. The II-khans' khante was founded by Hulegu , a grandson of Chinggis Khan and was based at Trabiz in the Iranian province of Azerbijan . Controlled much of Iran and Iraq | II-khan |
Mongal Kahanate founded by Chinggis Khan grandson Batu. It was based in southern Russia and Quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam . Also known as the Kipchak Horde. | Golden Horde |
Member of a prominent family of the mongols Changatai Khanate, Timur through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran. He considerate the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox, and his descendants, the Timurids, maintained his empire. | Timur |
Adviser to the II-Khan ruler Ghazan, who converted to Islam on Rashid's advice. Ghazan’s prime minister who attempted to write the first history of the world. | Rashid al-Din |
Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Trabriz provided the model for the movement of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system. | Nasir al-Din Tusi |
Prince of Novgorod. He submitted to the invading mongols in 1240 and received recognition as the leader of the Russian princes under the Golden Horde | Alexander Nevskii |
From Latin caesar, this Russian title for a monarch was used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III | Tsar |
Last of the Mongol Great Khans (1260-1294) and founder of the Yuan empire | Khubilai Khan |
In Tibetan Buddhism, a teacher | Lama |
China's northern capital, first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People's Republic of China | Beijing |
The third emperor of the Ming Empire (1403-1424). He sponsored the building of the Forbidden City, a huge encyclopedia project, the expeditions of Zheng He, and the reopening of china's Borders. | Yongle |
The choson dynasty ruled Korea from the fall of the Koryo kingdom to the colonization of Korea by Japan . Established by Yi Songgye and publicly rejected Mongol rule but still the Mongol system of taxation. | Choson |
The "divine wind" which the Japanese credited with blowing on mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281 | Kamikaze |
The second of Japan's military governments headed by a shogun (a military ruler). Sometimes called the Muromachi Shogunate. | Ashikage Shogunate |