Vocabulary #4

The European name for the fourteenth-century outbreak of the bubonic plague that spread from Asia following land and sea commercial trade.

• Black Death

• Diaspora

• Khan

• Lateen Sail

The exile of an ethnic or racial group from their homeland

• Diaspora

• Khan

• Lateen Sail

• “Mongol Peace”

A Mongol ruler

• Khan

• Lateen Sail

• “Mongol Peace”

• Steppe

A triangular sail attached to a short mast

• Lateen Sail

• “Mongol Peace”

• Steppe

• Caravanserai

The period from about 1250 to 1350 in which the Mongols ensures the safety of Eurasian trade and travel

• “Mongol Peace”

• Steppe

• Caravanserai

• Flying Cash

A dry grassland

• Steppe

• Caravanserai

• Flying Cash

• Genghis Khan

Rest stops where merchants and travelers could store their goods purchase a meal sleep and rest their animals during their journey along the Silk Road

• Caravanserai

• Flying Cash

• Genghis Khan

• Batu

A system of credit that allowed merchants to deposit money under their name in one location and withdraw the same amount at another location

• Flying Cash

• Genghis Khan

• Batu

• Kublai Khan

The founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, unitig the Mongolian tribes in the early 13th century and establishing oe of the largest empire in history

• Genghis Khan

• Batu

• Kublai Khan

• IL-khanate

Ruler of the Golden Horde; one of Genghis Khan’s grandsons; responsible for invasion of Russia beginning in 1236

• Batu

• Kublai Khan

• IL-Khanate

• Yuan Dynasty