Genghis Khan
Vocabulary
Kublai Khan
Review
100
The type of dwelling that Mongols lived in.
What is a yurt or tent?
100
A large, dry, grass-covered plain.
What is a steppe?
100
Battled these people for control of China
Who are the Song?
100
They ran China's bureacracy.
Who are the scholar officials?
200
Devices invented by the Chinese that were also used to defeat them.
What is the catapult and bomb?
200
The area located north of China.
What is Mongolia?
200
Elements of the Chinese system that Kublai Khan kept
What is the Song Bureaucracy and rituals of the Chinese court?
200
When these people attacked the borders, the Song pulled back and focused on the heartland and southern area of China.
Who are the barbarian tribes from Mongolia?
300
People who move place to place without a home
What are nomads?
300
The ruler of a Mongolian tribe
What is a khan
300
"Changes" in Chinese Government
What is he suspended civil service exams and put his own followers in the positions?
400
He broke through this and destroyed China
What is the Great Wall of China?
400
An ancient overland trade route
What is the Silk Road
400
The effects of the Silk Road reopening
What is it brought more visitors, more traded goods, and more ideas exchanged?
400
This invention allowed ships to travel farther distances without getting lost.
What is the magnetic compass?
500
Reasons for Genghis Khan's success
What is he was a strong military leader, organized his troops, he was ruthless, an expert horseman, and had catapults and bombs.
500
Hired by Genghis Khan as a diplomat, he traveled and wrote stories about what he saw in China.
Who is Marco Polo?
500
The New Social Order
What is Mongols, other foreigners, Northern Chinese, and Southern Chinese?
500
Improved printing methods like block printing and movable type caused this to happen.
What is raise literacy rates?
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