2. What is airak?
(a) Fermented mare's milk.
(b) The special relationship between two Khan sons.
(c) Mongolian perperation for cooking sheep.
(d) The celebration dance performned by Sorkhokhtani.

3. "It is reported, but impossible to verify, that no ____ was censored during Khubilai's reign?"
(a) Speech.
(b) Play.
(c) Work of art.
(d) Book.

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

5. Where did the Mongols discover the triangular plow?
(a) Southeast Asia.
(b) Europe.
(c) Persia.
(d) China.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Khubilai send the heir of the Sung dynasty to study, so he would not rebel?

2. What animal did the plague bacterium live in?

3. How many letters were in the alphabetic system that could write all the languages in the world?

4. How did Ogodei influence merchants to seek him out?

5. Who was Shiremun?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mongke Khan die?

2. What happened to the Mongol forces after they severely harmed the samurai warriors?

3. What happened to Professor Lkhagvasuren's teacher?

4. What geographically hindered the Mongols from full victory in Europe?

5. After the Mongols destroyed the Hungarian army, they were able to probe Vienna. Though scared, some Hapsburg troops captured a Mongol officer. What was strange about him?

6. How did the Mongols adapt the Chinese printing practices?

7. Why did the clerics suppose the Mongols were going to ride on Cologne? What happened in 1164 that made them think that way?

8. What a blitzkrieg?

9. What three inventions did Francis Bacon recognize as the foundation of modern world? Why is this important?

10. What happened to Arik Boke that caused the end of his life?

(see the answer keys)

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