Chapter 13 Key Terms

Question 1

P. 342
Nomadism

Answer 1

A way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources, in which groups of people continually migrate to find pastures and water
significant because certain a way of life, forced by a scarcity of resources

Question 2

PES 344
Yuan Empire

Answer 2

Empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan

significant because many PERSIAN ideas/ philosophies have emerged from there

Question 3

SP. 348
Bubonic Plague

Answer 3

a bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans; humans in late stages of the illness can spread the bacteria by coughing.

wiped out so many people changed the way cities and empires were run because they didn’t have the people nor resources to run it anymore

Question 4

P 349
Il-khan

Answer 4

a “secondary”/”peripheral” khan based in Persia. The Il-khans’ khanate was founded by Hülegü, a grandson of Genghis Khan, and was based at Tabriz in the Iranian province of Azerbaijan.

significant because it had a huge control over iraq and iran–> many PERSIAN ideas and philosophies

Question 5

SP 349
Golden Horde

Answer 5

Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan’s grandson Batu. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde

significant empire that change the face of russia and kept it under submission for a really long time

Question 6

PS 350
Timur

Answer 6

member of a prominent family of the Mongol’s Jagadai Khanate, Timur (through conquest) gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran.

changed the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox and founded the Mughal Empire in India–> lead to a huge change throughout the areas

Question 7

PS 351
Rashid al-Din

Answer 7

Adviser to the Il-khan ruler Ghazan.

Ghazan converted to Islam on Rashid’s advice

Question 8

IS. 352
Nasir al-Din Tusi

Answer 8

Persian mathematician and cosmologist

significant because he made the model for the movement of the planets–> inspired the Copernican model of the solar system

Question 9

PS 354
Alexander Nevskii

Answer 9

Prince of Novgorod (r.1236-1263). He submitted to the invading Mongols in 1240.

significant because we was a powerful leader of the Russian princes under the Golden Horde

Question 10

PS 354
Tsar (czar)

Answer 10

Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462- 1505)

significant because different type of ruler

Question 11

PE. 356
Ottoman Empire

Answer 11

islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia ca. 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453 to 1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus and eastern Europe and it was significant because it had a very new and innovated solid foundation

Question 12

PES. 357
Khubilai Khan

Answer 12

last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294) and founder of the Yuan Empire.
significant Established Yuan Empire.

Question 13

RP. 357
Lama

Answer 13

In Tibetan Buddhism, a teacher

significant because they raised and created the future generations brains

Question 14

PESIA. 357
Beijing

Answer 14

China’s northern capital, first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the People’s Republic of China
significant because has been capital ever since it was chagned

Question 15

PESA 359
Ming Empire

Answer 15

Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. The Ming emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. The later years of the Ming saw a slowdown in technological development and economic decline

significant bc it was an age of exploration before europe–> shows their advancement in life

Question 16

PESA 359
Yongle

Answer 16

The third emperor of the Ming Empire (r.1403-1424).
significant because sponsored the building of the Forbidden City–>one of the most significant places started the expeditions of Zheng He, & the reopening of China’s borders to trade & travel–> brought in new PERSIAN ideas and views

Question 17

PES 359
Zheng He

Answer 17

An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa

significant because he started oen of the first sea trades for asia

Question 18

P. 364
Yi

Answer 18

The Yi dynasty ruled Korea from the fall of the Koryo kingdom to the colonization of Korea by Japan
significant because they ruled korea from the fall of it

Question 19

R 365
Kamikaze

Answer 19

the “divine wind”

significant because the Japanese credited it with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in 1281

Question 20

PS 366
Ashikaga Shogunate

Answer 20

The second of Japan’s military governments headed by a shogun (a military ruler). Sometimes called the Muromachi Shogunate

significant because its a common phenomena of fuedliizam

Question 21

PEI 341
Mongols

Answer 21

People pf this name in mentioned as early as the records of the Tang Empire, living as nomads in northern Eurasia. After 1206 they established an enormous empire under gene his khan, linking western and eastern Eurasia.

Question 22

PS 341
Genghis Khan

Answer 22

The title of temujn when he ruled the Mongols (1206-1227) it means the “ocean” or “universe a leader” genbjis kahunas the founder of the Mongol empire