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ID Terms – 412-418 - AL

 * steppes
 * Mongols/Tatars
 * "crane catching"
 * Temujin/"Ocean King"/"Genghis Khan"
 * khan
 * Tengri
 * Battles won:
 * Persia
 * Herat, Afghanistan
 * Baghdad – death of last caliph
 * Matthew Paris - 1200s
 * Elbe River
 * Adriatic Sea
 * failed invasions: (after Genghis Khan’s death)
 * Syria
 * India
 * Japan
 * conquered China – 1279
 * empire covered from "the Volga River to the Pacific, encompassing the whole of Russia, Persia, China, the Silk Roads, and the steppes"
 * captured Gregorian capital, Tbilisi – 1234
 * destroyed Song dynasty – 1270s
 * failed to conquer:
 * Java
 * Japan
 * Uighurs – pastoral, Turkic-speaking people who dominated the steppeland north of the Silk Roads for a hundred years from the 740s
 * Changchun – 1219
 * Hindu Kush mountains
 * Gobi Desert

ID Terms – 418-422 - AL

 * Jurchen, Khitan, and Tangut states
 * Mongol peace (leads to highway police)
 * Friar William of Rubruck – 1253
 * Black Sea
 * Karakorum
 * Transoxiana
 * Altai Shan
 * Ancestal spirits
 * shamans
 * Möngke Khan
 * Kubilai Khan – 1200s
 * Marco Polo