Flashcards and Answers – Mongol Empire

Also known as Temujin; he united the Mongol tribes into an unstoppable fighting force; created largest single land empire in history.

Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather’s conquest of China

(1254-1324) Italian explorer and author. He made numerous trips to China and returned to Europe to write of his journeys. He is responsible for much of the knowledge exchanged between Europe and China during this time period.

Chinese naval explorer during the Ming dynasty who sailed along most of the coast of Asia, Japan, and half way down the east coast of Africa before his death; he is credited with cultural diffusion and with possibly exploring the Americas before Columbus; after his death the Ming destroyed his ships and isolated declaring that he had not found them anything that that justified the cost of more voyages (an example of ethnocentrism)

Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China.

– Nomadic war like people that come from the area of asia known as Mongolia

The Mongol Empire existed during the 13th and 14th centuries and was the largest land empire in history. The empire unified the nomadic Mongol and Turkic tribes of historical Mongolia. The empire sent invasions in every direction and ultimately connected the East with the West with the Pax Mongolica, or Mongol Peace, which allowed trade, technologies, commodities, and ideologies to be disseminated and exchanged across Eurasia. The Mongol raids and invasions were some of the deadliest and most terrifying conflicts in human history. Ultimately, the empire started to fragment and dissolved in 1368, at which point the Han Chinese Ming Dynasty took control.

Also known as the mongol peace. A time when global trade expanded due to the political stability provided by mongol rulers.

A dry, grassy, treeless plain found in Asia and eastern Europe.

well built portable tents; specifically used in Mongolia

A person in charge of the herd like goats or sheep, cattle

having no fixed home, moving from place to place in search of food, water, or grazing land

A Mongol ruler

Land given to the sons under Genghis Khan’s first wife; four main Khanates; Chaghadi (central Asia), Persia from conquered Baghdad, Kipchack (Golden Horde), Khanate of the Great Khan (Yuan Dynasty in China)

The Mongol armies that invaded Europe in 1237 and ruled Russia for over two centuries

A major development in warfare that was developed by the nomadic societies of the Eurasian steppe and spread to Chinese as early as the third century B.C.E.
new invention that held a mounted warriors feet so he could maneuver/fight on a horse with both hands

completed the take over of China

Created the largest empire and unified all of China
Brought much of the Eurasian landmass under a single ruler, created largest empire in history

real name of Genghis Khan

Pax mongolia,
– trade flourished

inability to force back foreign invaders