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Monguls Test
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History
Undergraduate 1
12/04/2011

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1206
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Temujin proclaims Genghis Khan
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1340s
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Plague pandemic spreads across Eurasia
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Khan
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Regional Overlord
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Temujin
Definition
Warrior; Avenged father's death; Proclaimed Genghis Khan in 1206
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Seljuk Turks
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Conquered islamic SW Asia; Sparked conflict with Christian world; Embraced Islamic Faith
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Kumiss
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Mare's milk that has been ferminted
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Yurt
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Tent
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Shaminism
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Religion; Spiritual leaders (Shamans) performed rituals and induced trances to connect with spirits
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Kushans
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Ruled northern India from 1st to 3rd centuries; Came from Central Asia
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Silk Road
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The great cross-Asian trade route opened by China's Martial Emperor around 100 BCE
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Nizam al-Muik
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Superb administrator who founded a series of emunent educational institutions and skillfully adapted the structures
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Sultan Malik Shah
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Reigned from 1072-1092 into unrelenting warfare against Shi'ism
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hashish
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Mild narcotic used to fortify themselves for murder; provides a fore taste of the pleasures of paradise
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Assassins
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"hashish users"
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Sultanate if Rum
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Main sucuessor state in the West; Break away Seljuk regime that controlled much of Anatolia.
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Salah al-Din
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Gifted Sunni Muslim warrior; Ended Shi'ite rule in Egypt; Served as sultan for two decades
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Great Khan
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Genghis Khan's main sucuessor; Direct ruler of all Mongol lands in East Asia and the overlord of the other Mongol realms
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kamikaze
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"divine winds"; Believed that God sent these to protect Japan
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Il-Khan
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Series of SouthWest Asian Mongol rulers; Focused on ruling their own realm
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Tatar Yoke
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What Russians call the Mongol Domination
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Pax Mongolica
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Advanced flow of goods and ideas among Eurasia peoples
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Reconquista
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Christian reconquest of Iberia
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The First Crusade
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(1096-1099); West won; Christian warriors conquered the land s around the eatern Mediterranean; Creation of "crusader states".
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The Second Crusade
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(1147-1149); led by the German Emperor and the King of France; Crusaders lost
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