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unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Magnetic compass | Helped aid innovation and ship control showed location |
| Rudder | Aid navigation and ship control |
| Junk | Boat built to withstand rough voyages similar to South west Asian Dhow |
| Mongol Empire | Mongols conquered the Abbasid Caliphate in 1258 and in the 14th century China came under their control |
| Kashgar | Located at the western edge of China where northern and southern routes of the silk road crossed leading to destinations in central Asia, India , Pakistan and perisia |
| Samarkand | Present day Uzbekistan in the Ze Rushan River valley, stopping point on the Silk road between China and the mediterrian |
| caravanserai | stops every 100 miles on the silk road to take rest and gain water could sometimes trade for a new camel |
| Money economy | Economy that used money to barter for multiple different items |
| Flying cash | A system of credit that allowed a merchant to deposit paper money in one location and under his name in his new location collect the same amount of money |
| Paper money | Currency in paper |
| Banking house | precursor to modern banking early bank locations for exchanging flying cash |
| Bill of exchange | A document stating the holder was legally promised payment of a set amount by a set day |
| Hanseatic league | cities in Germany and Scandinavia formed a commercial alliance |
| Mongols | multiple clans of pastoral nomads who herded goats and sheep |
| Khan | King of Mongols |
| Kurultai | The meeting that elected Genghis Khan as king |
| Genghis Khan | King that took control of north China Know for his harsh and ruthless tactics |
| Khanates | A Kingdom that reached from North China Sea to Eastern Persia |
| Pax Mongolica | A time of peace in Eurasia |
| Batu | Conquered Russia and forced people to pay tribute |
| Golden Horde | Batu's very powerful army |
| Moscow | city state that set a side tribute to develop a army to resist the Mongols |
| Hulegu | Grandson of Genghis Khan tool charge of the southwest region/abased |
| IL-Khanate | Hulegu's kingdom in central Asia that stretched from Byzantine to the Oxus River |
| Kublai Khan | Took control over the song dynasty |
| Yuan Dynasty | In China instituted a policy of religious tolerance |
| Zhu YuanZhang | A Buddhist monk from a poor present family led a revolt that overthrew the Yaun dynasty and founded the Ming dynasty |
| Ming dynasty | The dynasty that replaced the Yaun dynasty in China |
| Gobi Desert | Desert located in East Asia |
| Siege Weapons | Such as portable towers used to attack walled fortifications and catapults that burled stones and other objects |
| Cannon | Mongol innovation cobbled together using chines gunpowder Muslim flame throwers and European bell casting techniques |
| Uyghur alphabet | Genghis khans effort to unify his empire still used in Mongolia today |
| White lotus society | Secret society which began quietly organizing to put an end to Yaun dynasty |
| Bubonic Plague | The Mongol conquests helped to transmit the fleas that carried this plague |
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Arod715