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Chapter 12- Mongol Eurasia 1200-1500 Flashcards

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How are stepe nomads portrayed according to Herodotus? Page 296

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As hunters, herdsman, and superb riders

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How are decisions made among the Mongols? Page 296

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The Khan made the decisions and they were approved by council representatives from powerful families

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What religion(s) did the Mongols practice? Page 296

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Shamanism

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What did the Mongols depend on for its settled regions? Page 296

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  1. Iron for bridles (used to direct horses)
  2. Stirrups
  3. Cart fitting
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How did Marco Polo contribute to Europe’s desire to find an easier route to Asia? Page 303

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Stimulated the Europeans desire

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What was the tension/conflict between Il-Kahn and the Golden horde over? Page 303

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Religious differences

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Describe three methods such weapons of warfare used by the Mongols to do subdue it’s enemies. Page 303-1

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  1. Skills as horseback riders and with bows and arrows (shooting backwards)
  2. Catapult (i.e. used to launch flaming items and plagued bodies)
  3. Shot arrows at a distance then came in with javelines, swords, mace, etc.
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Explain text for me. Page 303

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A system in which merchants would sign a contract to work for the government and would collect and make money for them to keep a portion of the money

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In what areas of astronomy did the Timurids excel? Page 306

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It

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What did the Mongols do to help facilitate their control over Russia? Page 307

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Granted privileges to the Orthodox Church.

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Which Russian ruler took the title of “tsar” after the decline of Mongol rule? Page 308

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Ivan III

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Who made up Mongol armies? Page 309

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Mongols, Turks, Chinese, Iranians, some Europeans, and Englishmen

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According to the textbook. What seven things did Europeans learn from the Mongols? Page 309

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  1. Diplomatic transports
  2. Coal mining
  3. Movable type
  4. Higher math
  5. High temperature metallurgy
  6. Gunpowder
  7. Casting and use of bronze cannons
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Why didn’t China as we know it today exist before the Mongols and what did the Mongols do to contribute to the creation of the do graphic region known as China? Page 310

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They were unified it as it had been divided into three separate states

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How were the Mongols able to systemize government control in China? Page 310

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They made themselves the highest social ranking by law

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Confucianism elevated the status of scholars. Much to their chargin, what class did the Mongols elevate? Page 311

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The merchants and instead of scholars

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What were some of them is the Mongols tried to do to solve the financial difficulties? Page 311

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They tried to issue paper money and copper coinage.

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What language eventually dominated most of China? Page 311

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Mandarin

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The population of China greatly decrease in the Mongols. What are four possible reasons for this? Page 311

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  1. Female infanticide
  2. Southward movement of people fleeing
  3. Warfare
  4. Flooding on the Yellow River
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What were some of things the Ming emperor did that illustrated China’s anti-Mongol ideology? Page 312

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Change the capital to Nanjing, replace paper money with silver, and used a radical Buddhist beliefs

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What was the central idea of the imperial complex in Beijing called? Page 313

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The Forbidden City

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What did Emperor Yongle do in attempt to restore commercial links with the outside world? Page 314

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Explored maritime connections

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What did the Ming Empire gain as a result of Zheng He’s expeditions? Page 314

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They added 50 new tributary states

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What took priority over the quest for a maritime empire? Page 314

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The military expeditions against the Mongols

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What did the Ming attempt to do to protect her technological secrets? Page 315

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Censored the chpt. on gunpowder and guns in early Ming encyclopedias

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What is “Ming warfare” and what did it appear on? Page 315

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It is a blue-on-white style developed in the 1400s from Indian, C Asian, and Mid. E motifs

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List for technological and/or cultural contributions that Mongolian food stimulated and Korea. Page 317

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  1. Adoption of Chan Buddhism and
  2. Use of celadon ceramics
    3.
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Although the Yi in Korea rejected the Mongols, what ideas (3) did they borrow from them? Page 317

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  1. Study of Confucian classics
  2. Mongol style land surveys in the military techniques
  3. Mongol taxes
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Why did literacy increase in China? Page 317

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Quality, legibility, and production of printing improved when they started using solid copper frames instead of beeswax adhesive

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What military techniques made the Yi a formidable force? Page 318

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  1. Cannons on ships
  2. Gunpowder driven arrow launchers
  3. Subterfuge
  4. Cotton uniforms, gins, and spinning wheels (powered H2O)
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What prevented the Mongols from conquering the Japanese? Page 319

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Kamikaze or “Wind of the Gods”, the wall in Hakata Bay, and a typhoon

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How had the ancestor to the modern state of Vietnam been born? Page 321

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Annam (N Vietnam) destroyed Champas (S Vietnam) independence

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What did the size of the Mongol Empire promote? Page 295

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The movement of people and ideas from one of Eurasia to another

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