AP world chapter 11 vocab

pastoralism
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pastoralism
nomads that relied on their animals for survival and moved their habitat often
xiongnu
an early large scale nomadic empire who lived in the mongolian steppes of northern china. They created a huge military confederacy that stretched from manchuria deep into central asia
turkic peoples
a nomadic group of people in asia that migrated from their homeland mongolia and southern siberia westward
seljuk turks
the Turkish empire of the 11th and 12th centuries centered in Persia and present-day Iraq. Turkik rulers began to claim the Muslim title of the sultan at this time
chinggis khan
the son of a minor chieftain of a noble clan who rose to power by building a group of loyal followers. He was the mongol emperor who had a reputation for being generous to friends and ruthless to enemies
yuan dynasty
the Chinese dynastic title that the Mongols gave themselves, suggesting a new beginning in Chinese history
kublai khan
the grandson of chinggis khan and china's mongol ruler from 1271 to 1294
marco polo
the most famous of many european merchants, mostly from Italian cities, who made their way to China through the mongol empire
Ilkhanate of Persia
the part of the mongol empire that ruled over Persia
Ibn khaldun
a famous historian of the islamic world who lost both parents to the black death and wrote abut the plague in apocalyptic term
Khanate of the golden hordethe part of the mongol empire that ruled over Russia, known as his by the russians and as the kipchak khanate by the mongolsmongol resettlementthe mongols made people resttle when they conquered civilizations. Eventually, during the mongol collapse, the mongols were forced to resettle back into mongoliabubonic plaguealso known as the black death, it was a plague that spread across trade route in afro eurasia and had a 50-90 percent death rate