AP World Developments in Asia 1200-1450 CE

Who united the 30 feuding tribes of the Mongols into one entity in 1206?

• Tamalane

• Kublai Khan

• Genghis Khan

• Akbar the Great

The code of the Japanese warrior class, the samurai. It was harsher than the chivalric code of Western Europe, but also emphasized loyalty, honor, and personal bravery.

• Daimyo

• Tokugawa

• Shogun

• Bushido

Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, what did the Eastern Roman Empire come to be called?

• Russian Empire

• Ottoman Empire

• Byzantine Empire

• The Golden Horde

What caliphate followed the Umayyad Caliphate?

• Cordoba Caliphate

• Abbasid Caliphate

• Delhi Sultanate

• Mamluk Sultanate

Turkish horsemen who arrived in Asia Minor as mercenaries against the Byzantine Empire. They converted to Islam and a large group of them moved south to Egypt, where they established a kingdom in 1250.

• Mamluks

• Seljuk Turks

• Songhay

• Janissaries

Which Chinese state had the most urban population by the 1000s?

• Yuan Dynasty

• Ming Dynasty

• Song Dynasty

• Han Dynasty

Islamic religious group that stresses Islam's mystical traditions and places an emphasis on meditation, fasting, and devout prayer. It arose during the Umayyad Caliphate out of a reaction to the increased worldliness of the Caliphs.

• Sunni

• Shi'a

• Sufis

• Janissaries

Nomads, who'd converted to Islam and unified the Turkic tribes of the Central Asian steppes. Although they took over the governmental functions of the Abbasids, they did allow the Caliphs to continue their religious functions.

• Mamluks

• Tamerlane

• Seljuk Turks

• The Mongols

Took over most of Russia and the Ukraine by 1240, and between 1240 and 1242 they attacked Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary, taking over large swaths of land. They finally overextended themselves when they invaded Poland and Germany, and gradually the tide of their conquest in Europe began to recede.

• Abbasid Caliphate

• Mongols

• Seljuk Turks

• Vikings

During Japan's early shogun period, they were powerful landowner-warriors who came from Japan's warrior class, known as the samurai. By the late 1400s, the power of the shogun began to wane and this group ruled their lands with little regard for the central government.

• Tokugawa

• Daimyo

• Bushido

• Janissaries