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Kublai Khan. 1215-94. First Mongol Emperor. Conquered China. Established Yüan dynasty.
Xanadu. (To-lun). 1256. Mongol Kublai Khan’s summer capital.
Yüan. 1279-1368. Chinese Mongol dynasty founded by Kublai Khan. Grand Canal. Postal system. Marco Polo.
Siberia. 13C Mongol(S)...Golden Horde(W)/ Yüan(E). 1483 Russia explores. 1581 Khanate overthrown. 1689 Russo-Chinese border settled. 1891-1905 Trans-Siberian Railway.
Aga Khan. Title of leader of Ismaili Moslem sect.
Aga Khan III. 1877-1957. Indian Moslem leader. President, League of Nations, Gen Assembly, 1937.
Amanollah Khan. 1892-1960. Amir of Afghanistan 1919-29. Won independence from Britain, 1919.
Bactria. c1500BC Aryan. 545BC Persia. 328BC Alexander. 256BC-140 Graeco-Bactria. Badakhshan. 7C Moslem. 1220 Genghis Khan. Now Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.
Black Hand. 19-20C. Sicilian criminal secret society.
Black Hand. 1911-17. (Unity or Death) Serbian secret society assassinated Francis-Ferdinand 1914.
Bosnian Crisis. 1908-9. Russia sides with Serbian rebels after Austria-Hungary annexation. Black Hand.
Coleridge, Samuel. 1772-1834. English Romantic poet: Ancient Mariner 1798, Kubla Khan.
Genghis Khan. c1160-1227. Founder of the Mongol Empire. Black Sea to Pacific.
Il-Khan. 1256-1353. Mongol dynasty in Persia.
Jagatai. -1242. Mongol conqueror. Son of Genghis Khan.
Karakhan Manifesto. 1919. USSR renounces Czarist rights in China. Spurs Chinese Communist Party.
Mongol Empire. Asia. Established 1207 by Genghis Khan. Peak included Persia, China, Russia. 1260- Fragmented. Yuan. Golden Horde. Tamerlane.
Plekhanov, Georgi. 1857-1918. Russian revolutionary tried to reconcile Bolsheviks, Mensheviks.
Stakhanovism. 1935. Soviet movement to increase workers’ output. Rewards for exceeding quota.