Unit 3 Vocab Review

3. a component of gunpowder. Its chemical name is potassium nitrate.
5. famous Mongol general, united the Mongols and led them on their initial conquests.
6. Christian slave soldiers usually from the Balkans. Trained to become an elite force for Ottoman Sultans.
9. A weapon using gunpowder used on ships and to destroy enemy fortifications
10. the Turkish tribe under Osman that formed the Ottoman Empire
11. A Gunpowder Empire that controlled much of present-day India and Pakistan, and Bangladesh, founded in 1526.
14. battle waged between the Mongols and Europeans in 1241
15. invention made of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal that would burn rapidly when lit on fire
17. bow made of sinew and horn which was better than the English longbow
19. invention which allowed Mongol riders to be steady enough to shoot bows from horseback
20. A title used by Muslim kings, means “overlord” or “one with power”
21. Empire A Gunpowder Empire founded in modern-day Iran, active from 1501 to 1736.

1. term used to describe kingdoms ruled by the Mongols
2. A multinational and multilingual Gunpowder Empire founded in 1299. Its capital, Istanbul, lay in modern day Turkiye (Turkey).
4. equal in legal rights
7. battle in which the Mamalukes stopped the Mongols from conquering North Africa
8. Persian title for king
12. a type of gunpowder invented by Europeans that introduced water to the mixture and allowed the creation of paste balls of gunpowder.
13. The Ottoman ruled who used gunpowder artillery to conquer Constantinople
16. grandson of Genghis Khan, became the leader of the Yuan Dynasty in China
18. Indian term for Mongols, describes the descendants of Genghis Khan that formed a gunpowder empire in India