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Chinese

A decisive Arab Muslim victory over this group at the Battle of Talas River in 751 secured Central Asia and repulsed the only major challenge to Islamic rule.

ulus

Genghis Khan divided these four patrimonial states amongst his sons.

Descent from Genghis Khan through his wife Börte Üjin.

Under the system established by Genghis Khan, how would someone establish that he had a right to rule the khanate?

Timur

A product of the Turko-Mongolian fusion, this individual was the first to reunite the eastern and western parts of the Chagatai (Chagatay) ulus.

Grand Duchy of Moscow.

An interesting byproduct of Timur's campaign against the Golden Horde was that it precipitated the rise of the

the Mongols gradually became absorbed into the culture of Turkic peoples.

As a consequence of Mongol rule in Central Asia,

Central Asia

By the tenth century, all of the non-monotheistic faiths had disappeared from this region in the aftermath of Islamic conquest.

Sufism

Essentially a sort of mysticism, or folk Islam, this emerged from the fusion of Islamic sedentary civilization and Buddhist nomadic culture.

Baghdad

Hülegü Khan destroyed this Abbasid capital in 1258, putting an end to the Caliphate.

had a sense that he was destined for glory and to rule over many other peoples.

In his youth, Temujin, who would later come to be known as Genghis Khan,

Spain.

Inter-tribal strife was commonplace, but once they united, the Mongols expanded deep into all of the following areas except -China. -Russia. -Spain. -India.

Genghis Khan

It was Temujin (1206-1227), later known as ______, who brought the Mongols together and developed a method of governance and expansion that lasted long after his death.

Timur

It was under this leader that Central Asia moved to the fore of world events.

Timur

Like many transitional figures in history, such as Suleiman the Magnificent, this individual bridged the medieval and modern worlds.

Transoxiana.

Located to the south of the Great Eurasian Steppe was the core of Central Asia, an area known as

The Great Eurasian Steppe, a set of broad, flat grasslands that reach from Eastern Europe to the region of Mongolia to the north of China.

Perhaps the most significant geographical feature of Central Asia is

Great Eurasian Steppe

Perhaps the most well-known topographic area in Central Asia is this latitudinal belt of grassland that stretches from Eastern Europe through Mongolia.

Central Asia

Periodic Turkic migrations into this region transformed the sedentary culture of the area.

khuriltai

The culmination of Genghis Khan's ascendancy took place in 1206 CE at this Mongol assembly, which appointed him as the first undisputed ruler of the Mongols and uniting them under the authority of his position.

Muslim

The Ilkhans were a Mongol minority ruling over this majority, and religious problems plagued the Ilkhanate for much of its existence.

Islam

The Silk Road carried Buddhism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and this religion to Central Asia.

nomad battle strategy

The first stage of this Mongol tactic often commenced with a feigned retreat, in which a group of their cavalry engaged the adversary, retreated, and encouraged their opponents to follow them.

universal ruler.

The name Genghis Khan means

China

The successors of Kublai Khan (1260-1294), who presided over the Yuan Dynasty in this place, could not even convene a khuriltai to appoint a great khan following his death.

Mongols

These people were the only steppe tribes whose empire actually expanded upon the death of its founder.

Golden Horde

Timur campaigned against the ______, the Delhi Sultanate, and the Ottoman Empire, all in an effort to redirect trade in his direction.

Tokhtamysh

Timur crushed this leader of the Golden Horde in 1395.

Turkification

Turkic groups absorbed and assimilated the invading Mongols in this process, and the conflict between the two cultures faded over time and eventually led to a fusion of Turkic and Mongolian societies.

khagan

Turkic wanderers belonged to an unstable confederation of clans and tribes roaming the steppe, loosely bound under this, a charismatic monarch who laid claim to some sort of divine providence.

Chinese cities were usually walled, and some of these walled cities even connected to smaller fortified towns through a set of underground tunnels.

When waging war in China, the Mongols faced which challenge?

gunpowder

Which late medieval technology did Timur, as a Central Asian leader, have a near monopoly on?

Sufis were doctrinally flexible and so made some concessions to pre-Muslim practices among new converts to Islam.

Why was Sufi practice instrumental in helping to convert many of the peoples of Central Asia to Islam?

Jurchen

With his newly-constructed army, Genghis Khan returned to northern China in 1210 and began a continuous campaign of destruction, primarily directed against the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), an empire ruled by these people who would later call themselves the Manchu.