Unit 2 Vocab

Network of routes that eventually stretched from China 4000 miles across the heart of Asia to the Mediterranean Sea.

chief of a Mongol clan

Mongol warrior and ruler; forged the Mongol tribes into a fighting force that conquered most of Asia including parts of China.

Mongol emperor and founder of Yuan Dynasty, grandson of Genghis Khan; continued his grandfathers wars of conquest in China.

a period of peace in Mongolia lasting from the mid 1200's to the mid 1300's.

Venetian traveler in China; worked for Kublai Khan

a terrible outbreak of Bubonic Plague that swept through Europe beginning in 1347.