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| Country to the north of China. It is famous for its steppe lands and for being the home of the Xiongnu and the Mongol peoples. |
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| A large, flat area of grasslands. |
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| Title given to the leader of the Mongolians. |
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| Famous Mongolian emperor of China during the Yuan Dynasty. Grandson of Ghengis Khan. |
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| People that create things (Artisans) and people that sell and trade things (Merchants). During the Yuan Dynasty, they enjoyed a higher social ranking. |
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| The practice of having many different cultures working and living together peacefully. The Mongols created a multicultural state in China because of how they moved people around their empire. |
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| A Daoist / Peasant rebellion that weakened the Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty and helped overthrow the Yuan to establish the Ming Dynasty. |
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| How people are ranked or arranged in the social status of a culture. In the Yuan, Mongolian people were higher on the social hierarchy than southern Chinese people. |
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| Importantly re-opened by the Mongols. It allowed for many cultures and technologies to spread across the Mongolian empire, including Yuan China. |
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| A public work project started during the Sui Dynasty. It connected north China and south China with a massive canal. The Mongolians forced peasants to work on making it even bigger. |
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| The dynasty that followed the Yuan. They are culturally Chinese and work to create a "more Chinese" China. |
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