The Americas, China, & The Mongols

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  1. 4. system of testing designed to select the most studious and learned candidates for appointment as bureaucrats in the Chinese government.
  2. 7. ruled China from 1368 to 1644 A.D., during which China's population would double
  3. 8. region and cultural area in southern North America and most of Central America
  4. 10. a party gives to another as a sign of submission
  5. 12. established by the Mongols and ruled China from 1271 to 1368 CE.
  6. 14. ancient city built by the Aztecs
  7. 15. the first elaborate pre-Columbian civilization of Mesoamerica
  8. 17. mongol peace
  9. 18. ancient civilization that stretched across much of Central America
  10. 19. pitiless, cruel, or heartless.
  11. 22. Mongolian general and statesman who was the grandson and greatest successor of Genghis Khan
  12. 24. dynasty ruled only in South China after 1127.
  13. 26. the spread of one culture's practices
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  1. 1. succeeded the short-lived Sui dynasty (581–618)
  2. 2. Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty
  3. 3. founder of the Mongol Empire
  4. 5. an earlier people's culture that has a great and widespread influence on some later cultures and people
  5. 6. ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands
  6. 9. ruled Mexico and neighboring areas
  7. 11. This political entity was typically found on the Eurasian Steppe and could be equivalent in status to tribal chiefdom
  8. 13. sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own
  9. 16. floating garden
  10. 20. a method used by the Incas and other ancient Andean cultures to keep records
  11. 21. journeyed across Asia at the height of the Mongol Empire
  12. 23. a Central Asian ethnographic group of closely related tribal peoples
  13. 25. upper or ruling class