Across
- 2. Despite launching two massive invasions against Japan, the Mongols were defeated -----
- 3. What kind of people were the Mongols?
- 5. In 1260, the Mongol Empire was divided into ---- large khanates.
- 7. The Khanate of the Great Khan included Mongolia and -----
- 8. -------- of the steppe often left the Mongols vulnerable to battles over grasslands
- 9. ------- invaded the Russian city of Kiev, and captured the Islamic capital of Baghdad
Down
- 1. For centuries, small groups of Mongol clans wandered the ----- steppe until around 1200 A.D.
- 2. ------- defeated his rivals and accepted the title Genghis Khan, or “universal ruler”.
- 4. The Mongols conquered nearly all of Asia, Persia, ----------, and Russia.
- 6. . A major sign that the Mongols were losing strength was their failure to conquer the tiny archipelago of -----
