Chapter 13 (Unit 1 - 2)

Question 1

A political entity formed by separate states that have given certain powers to a central government
while keeping control over local matters.

Answer 1

Federation

Question 2

A situation in which people of different social classes, religions, races, are together in a society but
continue to have their different traditions and interests.

Answer 2

Pluralistic

Question 3

A political subdivision of central Asian nomads. A people or tribe of nomadic life.

Answer 3

Horde

Question 4

To stop fighting an enemy or opponent : to admit that an enemy or opponent has won: to stop trying
to fight or resist something : to agree to do or accept something that you have been resisting or
opposing.

Answer 4

Capitulate

Question 5

An occurrence in which a disease spreads very quickly and affects a large number of people over a
wide area or throughout the world.

Answer 5

Pandemic

Question 6

A Buddhist priest of Tibet or Mongolia.

Answer 6

Lama

Question 7

A way of life in which people continually or seasonally migrate in order to find pastures, water or
places to exchange goods.

Answer 7

Nomadism

Question 8

Warriors that fight on horseback.

Answer 8

Cavalry

Question 9

A person that seizes political power through force or non-traditional methods.

Answer 9

Tyrant

Question 10

The divine wind which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away from their shores in
1281.

Answer 10

Kamikaze