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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, the Global Awakening, 1262-1962, Chapter 8, Khubilai Khan and the New Mongol Empire.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was not a torture technique used by the famous Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa?
(a) Putting children in catapults.
(b) Waterboarding.
(c) Pulling limbs off prisoners in front of their comrades.
(d) Soldiers playing with severed heads like balls.

2. Who, in 1228, tied 400 Mongol prisoners to horses and dragged them through the streets?
(a) The Bulgarians.
(b) Jalal al-Din.
(c) The Persians.
(d) The sultan of Delhi.

3. What happened to the consensual councils in China, after the Mongols were no longer in power?
(a) The Chinese changed the daily meetings, but kept consensus voting.
(b) They disappeared.
(c) The Chineese kept having daily meetings, but a councilor made all the decisions.
(d) They stayed exactly the same.

4. In 1263, Khubilai began the construction of what important building?
(a) A courthouse to uphold Chinese law.
(b) An ancestral temple for his family.
(c) A public hospital for the Chinese.
(d) A library to promote literacy.

5. How did Temujin and his nineteen men survive starvation on the muddy Lake Balujna?
(a) Boiled horseflesh.
(b) Roots and bugs.
(c) Boiled camel.
(d) Mud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Genghis Khan attempted to repair the breech between Jochi and Chagahatai by assigning them to a campaign against which city?

2. What became of Khanbalik, also known as Dadu?

3. In capturing a new city, such as those in the Khwarizm empire, whom of the following did Genghis Khan execute?

4. What was the name Temujin chose for himself, after this important khuriltai?

5. When was the final battle for control over Mongolia?

(see the answer key)

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