AP World History Unit 1.1

Front

Marco Polo

Back

a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.

Front

Genghis Khan:

Back

a 13th-century warrior in central Asia who founded the Mongol Empire, one of the largest empires in history.

Front

Khubilai Khan

Back

Leading the Mongols to defeat China, Kublai Khan fulfilled his grandfather's ambitions to rule one of history's largest empires.

Front

Steppes

Back

The grassland steppes of Eurasia spread from eastern China across Mongolia and Russia to Europe.

Front

Song

Back

During the Song (Sung) Dynasty (960-1276), technology was highly advanced in fields as diverse as agriculture, iron-working, and printing. Indeed, scholars today talk of a Song economic revolution.

Front

Yuan

Back

during this century of alien occupation, Chinese culture not only survived but was reinvigorated.

Front

Ilkhanate

Back

successors to the Mongol Empire in Persia, once ruled over a great empire.

Front

bureaucracy

Back

the structure and set of rules that control the activities of people that work for large organizations and government.

Front

neo-confucianism

Back

With roots in the late Tang dynasty, the Confucian revival flourished in the Northern and Southern Song periods and continued in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties that followed.

Front

foot-binding

Back

Considered an attractive quality, the effects of the process were painful and permanent. Widely used as a method to distinguish girls of the upper class from everyone else.