The Mongols

3. The Mongol capital Khanbaliq is now China’s capital, __________________. It is in northeastern China.
7. The Khanate of the Golden ___________________ included part of modern Russia.
9. The Chagatai Khanate was in __________________ Asia.
10. Kublai Khan set up his winter capital at ______________.
11. Kublai Khan named his dynasty the ________________ Dynasty. This is a Chinese name. It lasted from 1279 – 1368.
14. The Yuan Dynasty was also called the Khanate of the ________________________. It included China and Mongolia.
16. _________________ played an important role in settling disputes among khans. This prevented wars among khans.
19. The Mongol’s summer capital was a legendary city named ______________________.
20. Polo The famous Italian merchant and traveler _______________ wrote glowing descriptions of Khanbaliq.

1. The Mongols’ original home was ___________________.
2. The Mongols tried but failed to conquer ______________________ in the 1200s.
4. Genghis Khan’s grandson __________________ completed the conquest of China.
5. ________________ founded the Mongol Empire by uniting various Mongol tribes under his leadership.
6. Genghis Khan may have killed as many as _____________ million people as he conquered his empire. This may have caused an 11 percent decrease in the world’s population.
8. Genghis Khan’s forces may have killed three-fourths of the population of the area of modern ______________ when he defeated the Khwarezmid Empire.
9. The fact that Kublai Khan gave himself and his dynasty Chinese names and dressed like a Chinese emperor indicates that he, he like other Mongol khans, adopted the ________________ of the people they conquered.
12. Though Genghis Khan conquered much of the Mongol Empire, he never fully conquered _____________.
13. Kublai Khan gave himself the Chinese emperor name ____________________.
15. ________________ were a major reason for the decline of the Mongols.
16. The Japanese believed that a kamikaze saved them from a Mongol defeat. They believed this because a storm had destroyed many Mongol ships. Kamikaze means “divine ____________.”
17. The Ilkhanate included much of the region known as the ________________.
18. The Mongols created the largest _______________ empire in history.