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In the Mongol empires, what was the name of the leader who made final decisions?

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Khan

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

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Nomadism

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Which 3 religions were prominent in the Mongol empires?

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Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam

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In addition to Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam, which practice dominated Mongol religions?

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Shamanism- the idea that special individuals had contact with the supernatural

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Genghis Kahn initiated what in 1206?

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Two decades of political aggression and conquest

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Between 1206 and 1221, Genghis made military advances against which 3 empires?

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The Tanggut, the Jin, and Khwarezm (Iran)

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Who was Genghis Kahn’s successor?

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Ögödei, his son (1227)

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Ögödei conquered which territories?

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Tanggut and Jin (finished destruction), Northern China, Southern Song.

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Genghis’ grandson Batu conquered which territories?

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Kieran Russia, Moscow, Poland, and Hungary

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What caused the suspension of Mongol conquest in Europe in 1241?

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Death of Ögödei

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What major event happened under the rule of Genghis’ grandson, Güyük?

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Execution of last Abbasid caliphate

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What was Genghis Kahn’s original objective for expansion?

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Collecting tribute

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What was Ögödei’s objective in conquests?

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Rule a united empire based at Karakorum, his capital.

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Which Mongol group controlled much of Russia?

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The Golden Horde

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Which Mongol group dominated Central Asia?

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Jagadai

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What caused Mongol unity to unravel in 1265?

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Death of Ögödei, Khubilai declared himself great Khan and branch of Jagadai refused to accept him.

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The Yuan empire (China and Siberia) was founded by who?

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Khubilai Kahn

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What was the capital of the Yuan empire?

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Beijing (old Jin capital)

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What factors caused Jagadai to become an independent Mongol center?

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Relations with Turkic-speaking nomads and a hatred of Khubilai.

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What did Khubilai do with the conquered regions of northern and southern Vietnam?

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Made them tribute states

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What did Southern Vietnam provide the Mongols with as tribute?

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Champa rice

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What 2 regions did Khubilai’s conquests fail at overtaking?

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Java and Japan (twice)

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What two factors allowed the Mongols to overtake their enemies although they were often outnumbered

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Extraordinary riding skills and superior bows

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The Mongols charged at infantrymen with which 4 weapons?

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Sword, javelin, mace, and lance.

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The Mongols met their match only at which battle?

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The Battle of Ain Jalut against Turkic-speaking mamluks.

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The Mongols built which military weapon based on Chinese models?

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Catapult

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The Mongols used the catapult to destroy which cities?

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Iran and Iraq

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Those who surrendered to the Mongols provided them what?

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Men to the armies

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Trade brought what 3 products to the Middle East and Europe?

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Silk, artistic motifs, and porcelain

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Trade in the Mongol courts what 4 diseases?

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Bubonic plague, Typhus, smallpox, and influenza.

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Who were the main carriers of the bubonic plague?

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Flea-infested rats traveling on trade ships

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Plague incapacitated the Mongols during their attack on which city?

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Kaffa

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Flea-infested rats reached Europe from what city?

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Kaffa by trade ships

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What was the great pandemic of 1347-1352?

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The combination of disease that spread from the Mongols to Kaffa to Europe.

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A bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans

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Bubonic plague

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A “secondary” khan based in Persia.

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Il-Khan

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Il-Khan state was established by who?

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Hülegü

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The Il-Khan state controlled which 4 territories?

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Iran, Azerbaijan, Mesopotamia, and Armenia.

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Mongol Khanate established in Southern Russia

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Golden Horde

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The Golden Horde was founded by who?

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Genghis Kahn’s grandson, Batu.

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The Golden Horde capital was established where?

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Sarai on the Volga River

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The two secondary khanates ruled over an indigenous people of what religion?

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Muslim

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The two secondary khanates ruled over a population that spoke mostly what language?

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Turkic

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Why did the Il-Khan state accept Muslim faith into their administration before the assaults on the Middle East?

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Hülegü, although Buddhist himself, had a trusted Shi’ite advisor and granted privileges to the Shi’ites.

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In what ways did Mongol practices clash with Muslim doctrine?

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Mongols worshipped Buddhist and shamanist idols. They also drank blood and slaughtered their animals differently.

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When did Islam first become a point of inner-Mongol tension?

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When Batu’s successor declared himself a Muslim (Golden Horde)

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Both secondary khanates laid claim to which region?

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The Caucuses

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In the conflict against the Golden Horde over the Caucasus, who did the Il-Khans ally with and why?

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European leaders because such leaders believed that aiding the Mongols would result in the Il-Khan helping relieve pressure on the crusader principalities.

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In the conflict over the Caucasus, the Golden Horde allied with who?

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The Muslim Mamluks in Egypt

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What happened that ended the European’s chances of getting crusade help from the Il-Khans?

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The new ruler, Ghazan, declared himself a Muslim (1295)

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What was Ghazan’s view toward theology?

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Casual/neutral- he didn’t affiliate with Sunnis or Shi’ites

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What did the Il-Khans use to collect wealth from their subjects?

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Tax farming

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What happened as a result of heavy tax farming?

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Agriculture rapidly declined

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What did the Il-Khan government do to combat agricultural decline?

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Took land to grow its own grain

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The Mongol economic decline led to the revival of what practice that was formerly used in China?

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Paper money

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Member of a prominent family of the Mongols’ Jagadai Khanate; through conquest gained control over much of Central Asia and Iran.

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Timur

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Timer consolidated the status of which Muslim sect?

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Sunnis

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What was the name of the new leader who maneuvered himself into command of the Jagadai forces?

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Timur

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Timor launched military campaigns where?

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Western Eurasia

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What prevented Timur from assuming the title Khan?

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He was Turkish in descent

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Juvanai, historian, wrote what?

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He first comprehensive narrative l of Genghis’ empire

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Adviser to the Il-Khan ruler Ghazan, who converted to Islam on his advice.

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Rashid’s al-Din

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Rashid al-Din’s work consisted of what?

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Attempt at the first history of the world, earliest known general history of Europe, and a detailed description of China

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Ghazan converted to which religion?

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Islam

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Persian mathematician and cosmologist whose academy near Tabriz provided the model of the planets that helped to inspire the Copernican model of the solar system.

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Nasir al-Din Tusi

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What was the Il-Khan capital?

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Tabriz

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Copernicus based his model off the work of what cosmologist?

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Nasir al-Din Tusi

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Under the Il-Khan empire, which scientific and mathematical advancements were made?

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Prediction of ellipses, astrolabes, armillary spheres, three-dimensional quadrants, decimal notation, and an accurate value of pi

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What was the main matter of political rivalry for the Mongols?

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Islam

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Under the Il-Khans and Timurids, which 2 regions experienced a flowering of Islamic culture?

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Iran and Central Asia

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What advancements were made under the Il-Khan by Jamshid al-Kashi?

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Decimal notation, and a proposed value of pi.

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What was the capital of the Golden Horde?

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Sarai.

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To facilitate control, the Golden Horde granted privileges to who?

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The Orthodox Church

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Under the Golden Horde, which language gained prominence?

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Russian

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Who did the Golden Horde enlist to handle taxes and the census?

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Russian princes

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Describe the cause of Mongol economic problems under the Il-Khans

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The flow of silver and gold into Mongol hands starved the local economy

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What did the Il-Khan government do to try and combat their economic problems?

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Introduced an (unsuccessful) attempt at paper money

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Prince of Novgorod

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Alexander Nevskii

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Who persuaded fellow Russian princes to submit to the Mongols?

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Alexander Nevskii

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What did the Mongols do in return, for Alexander Nevskii?

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Favored Novgorod and Moscow

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Which 2 towns eclipsed Kiev as centers of political, cultural, and economic centers?

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Novgorod and Moscow

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The 1300s saw a period of what?

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Decentralization in Kiev and the emergence of Moscow as Russia’s dominant political center

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Russian princes used what form of taxation?

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Tax farming

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Mongol tax collection in Ukraine caused what demographic effect?

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Population loss

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Russia and parts of Eastern Europe were described as suffering under what?

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The Mongol Yoke

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Before the Mongol invasion, Russia was oriented primarily toward who? Why?

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The Byzantine empire because of the role of the Orthodox Church

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From Latin Caesar, this Russian title for a monarch first used by Ivan III.

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Tsar

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Who was the first to use the title Tsar?

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Ivan III

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Why did Ivan III use the title tsar?

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To legitimize his rule with the decline of the Golden Horde.

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Which German-speaking group resisted Mongol rule?

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The Teutonic Knights

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Who were the Teutonic Knights?

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German-speaking warriors dedicated to Christianizing the Slavic and Kipchak populations of Northern Europe to colonizing their territories with German settlers

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Who joined the Mongols in fighting Teutonic Knights?

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Alexander Nevskii

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Embassies to the Mongol court returned with what?

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Knowledge about diplomatic passports, coal mining, moveable type, high-temperature metallurgy, higher mathematics, and the use of the bronze cannon.

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In the 1930s, what caused religious speculation that God was again punishing Christians?

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Another outbreak of Bubonic Plague.

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In the fourth century, which region escaped Mongol grip?

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Lithuania

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When Russia fell under the Mongols, how did Lithuania respond?

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They centralized their state and strengthened their military.

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In the late 1300s, which group ended the Teutonic Knights?

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Lithuania

97
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Who was the most effective leader of the Balkan states?

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Serbian king Stephen Dushan

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Who took advantage of Byzantine weakness to turn the archbishop of Serbia into an independent patriarch?

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Stephen Dushan

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Stephen Dushan’s empire disappeared when?

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Defeat by the Ottomans at he battle of Kosovo

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Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia. Based at Istanbul.

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Ottoman Empire

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The founders of the Ottoman Empire came to Anatolia in the same wave of Turkic migrants as who?

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The Seljuks

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Who destroyed the Serbian empire?

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The Ottoman Empire

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The location of the Ottoman Empire allowed for what?

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Them to take part in crusader struggles in the Byzantine Empire and attract Muslim warriors who wished to battle Christians.

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Who temporarily defeated the Ottomans in 1402?

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Timur

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What happened in 1453 in Europe?

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Fall of the Byzantine empire because of the capture of Constantinople.

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The Ottomans put emphasis on what two cultural factors?

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Religious and linguistic identity.

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What was Ögödei’s plan for Northern China?

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He wanted to turn the Northern China Plain into a pasture for livestock

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Who established the Yuan empire?

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Khubilai

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What benefits did the Yuan empire bring?

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Secure trade routes and the transmission of information, ideas, and skills.

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The Yuan sought what culturally?

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A synthesis of the Mongol and Chinese traditions.

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Last of the Mongol Great Khans and founder of the Yuan empire

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Khubilai Khan

112
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In Tibetan Buddhism, a teacher.

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Lamas

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What Buddhist aspect became popular with the Mongols?

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The use of Lamas, or Buddhist teachers.

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What was the Yuan capital?

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Beijing

115
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What became the center of cultural and economic life?

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Beijing

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Beijing served as a crossroads of caravan trade routes leading to which places?

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Tabriz (Il-Khan capital) and old Sarai (Golden Horde capital)

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What was the forbidden city?

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In the Yuan empire, a close imperial complex with wide streets and a network of linked lakes and artificial islands.

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What 3 separate states competed in China before the arrival of the Mongols?

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The Tanggut, Jin, and Southern Song.

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What did the Great Khans do to the culture of the Tanggut, Jin, and Southern Song?

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They destroyed the languages, writing systems, and forms of government and encouraged the preservation of Chinese government and society.

120
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Describe the social hierarchy of the Yuan empire.

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1: Mongols
2: Central Asians and Middle Easterners
3: Northern chinese
4: southern chinese

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In the Yuan empire, Muslims served in what occupations?

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Calendar-making and astronomy

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The Confucianists in Yuan Empire regarded which 2 groups as inferior?

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Merchants and physicians.

123
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Gentry families in the Yuan empire chose what occupations?

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Commerce (corporations)

124
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Who handled most corporations in the Yuan Empire?

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The central Asians and Middle Easterners

125
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How did the Yuan empire deal with the decline in agricultural base and a shortfall of finances?

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Introduced paper money

126
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In the Yuan empire, what helped offset the failure of paper money?

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Copper coinage

127
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In the Yuan Empire, what cultural change occurred because of increasing influence from the north?

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Linguistic change- Mongol Chinese language, Mandarin, spread.

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What occupational system dotted Yuan countrysides?

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Cottage industries

129
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Huang Dao Po brought knowledge of what into the Yuan empire?

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Cotton growing, spinning, and weaving.

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What did the Mongols do to farmers of the countryside?

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Evicted some and heavily taxed others.

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In the Yuan empire, along with a decline in farmers, what environmental effect resulted from Mongol taxes?

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Disastrous flooding as a result of neglect of dams and dikes along the Yellow River.

132
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During the eighty years of Mongol rule, population declined by how much?

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40 percent.

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What 5 factors contributed to rapid population decline in the Yuan empire?

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Prolonged warfare, female infanticide, bubonic plague, southward flight of refugees, and flooding on the Yellow River.

134
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Why did population losses in Northern China exceed those in Southern China during the Yuan empire?

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Disastrous floods on the Yellow River

135
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What event allowed for the fall of the Yuan empire?

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Feuds between the Mongol princes.

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Who mounted the campaign that destroyed the Yuan empire?

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Zhu Yuanzhang

137
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Who was the founder of the Ming Empire?

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Zhu Yuanzhang

138
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What happened to remaining Mongols with the fall of the Yuan empire?

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Many stayed in China. Descendants took Chinese names and became part f Chinese culture.

139
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After the fall of the Yuan, Mongols still predominated in what region?

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Inner Asia

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What religion was adopted by the Mongols left in Inner Asia after the fall of the Yuan empire?

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Islam, but others favored Tibetan Buddhism.

141
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Why did the Mongols of Inner Asia pay tribute to the Ming empire?

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For access to trade routes

142
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Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan empire

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Ming Empire

143
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Culturally, what did the Ming want to accomplish?

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Reestablishment of Chinese traditions

144
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Zhu Yuanzhang assumed imperial power under what name?

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Hongwu

145
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Honey moved the capital to what?

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Nanjing

146
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Zhu Yuanzhang subscribed to what religion?

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Buddhism

147
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Though Zhu Yuanzhang was a Buddhist, he used aspects of what to enhance his rule?

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Confucianism- made him look like a l champion of civilization and virtue

148
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Hongwu imposed what strict economic and political restrictions?

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Chocked off relations with Central Asia and the Middle East, imposed strict limits on imports and foreign visitors, and replaced paper money with silver.

149
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Zhu Yuanzhang replaced paper money with what?

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Silver

150
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Ming social status began being based on what?

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Hereditary occupations.

151
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In the Ming empire, Muslims served in what occupations?

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Calendar-making and astronomy

152
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The Ming empire had a replica of Khubalai’s observatory where?

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In Nanjing

153
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The Ming empire uses what aspect of Mongol advancements?

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Their calendar

154
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3rd emperor of the Ming empire; sponsored building of the Forbidden City, an encyclopedia project, the expeditions of Zheng He, and the reopening of Chinese ports.

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Yongle

155
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Yongle returned the capital to what?

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Beijing

156
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Yongle made what important geographic/political change?

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Moved the capital back to Beijing.

157
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The Forbidden city contained what features?

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Moats, orange-red outer walls, golden roofs, and marble bridges.

158
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What did Yongle intend for the Forbidden City to do?

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Overshadow Nanjing.

159
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Yongle restored commercial links to what region?

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The Middle East

160
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Why did Yongle explore maritime connections?

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The Mongols still controlled much of overland trade

161
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In Southeast Asia, which region became an early Ming province?

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Annan

162
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An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean

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Zheng He

163
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What helped inspire naval expeditions of Zheng He?

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Focus on southern Vietnam (Annam)

164
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Where did Zheng he direct his first three voyages?

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The Indian subcontinent

165
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What eased Zheng He’s relations with the Indian subcontinent?

A

He was Muslim and his father and grandfather made pilgrimages to Mecca

166
Q

Zheng He’s expeditions reached which regions?

A

Indian Subcontinent, Persian Gulf, Arabia, the Horn of Africa, and Strait of Madagascar.

167
Q

What did Zheng He do in Southeast Asia?

A

Established Chinese merchant communities to cement Ming allegiance and collect taxes

168
Q

What did Zheng He do to those who resisted his expeditions?

A

Slaughtered them (Sumatra)

169
Q

Why did the Ming government limit mining?

A

Protect value of metal and tax the industry

170
Q

What happened as a result of Ming restrictions on mining?

A

Mechanical implements in farming were too expensive

171
Q

What happened after death of Yongle?

A

Ship-building skills declined

AP World History (3 decks)

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