Chapter 12 terms

Question 1

Mongols

Answer 1

tribal group in Mongolia

Question 2

Genghis Khan

Answer 2

title for supreme leader in Mongolia

Question 3

nomadism

Answer 3

way of life involving traveling, looking for food and pasture

Question 4

Yuan Empire

Answer 4

Mongol branch that established an empire over China

Question 5

bubonic plague

Answer 5

disease carried by fleas on rats along trade routes

Question 6

il-Khan

Answer 6

central Asian Mongol state established by Genghis’ grandson Hulegu

Question 7

Golden Horde

Answer 7

Russian Mongol state

Question 8

Timur/Tamerlan

Answer 8

leader of the Central Asian Khanate of Jagadai

Question 9

Rashid al-Din

Answer 9

historian for the Persian khanate

Question 10

Nasir al-Din Tuse

Answer 10

Shi’ite scholar who represents the beginning of Mongol interests in the scientific traditions of Muslim lands

Question 11

Alexander Nevskii

Answer 11

prince of Novgorod who submitted to the Mongols

Question 12

Tsar/Czar

Answer 12

word for Russian leader, came from the Byzantine word for “caesar”

Question 13

Ottoman Empire

Answer 13

descendants of Turkic nomads who took over Anatolia

Question 14

Khubilai Khan

Answer 14

attempted to integrate Mongol and Chinese culture

Question 15

lamas

Answer 15

Buddhist priests fromTIbet

Question 16

Beijing

Answer 16

Yuan capital that became the center of cultural and economic life in China

Question 17

Ming Empire

Answer 17

took control of China after the Yuan fell

Question 18

Yongle

Answer 18

emperor of the Ming

Question 19

Zheng He

Answer 19

leader of the naval expeditions sent out from China between 1405 and 1433

Question 20

kamikaze

Answer 20

storm that drove the Mongols away from Japan

Question 21

Ashikaga Shogunate

Answer 21

controlled Japan beginning in 1338