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After serving first as slave soldiers within the Abbasid caliphate, the ____ Turks increasingly seized political and military control of the caliphate during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Following the death of his father, first Temujin ___.

The ___ adopted a pastoral lifestyle in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they migrated southward from the upper Nile Valley into the more arid regions of central Kenya.

All of the following regions were incorporated into the Mongol Empire except

The Mongols called Russia the Kipchak Khanate following its incorporation into their empire, whereas the Russians called it the ____.

The ____ was a series of ritual bowings and prostrations made by emissaries to the Chinese court as they presented their tribute to the Chinese emperor.

The pastoral societies of the _____ played no role in the spread of Islam.

Which of the following resulted from Mongol rule over Russia?

The fourteenth-century Muslim scholar who wrote an account of his extensive travels in the Islamic world and China was named ___.

Buddhism found fertile ground in China, especially after 300 C.E. but not because of ____.