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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What year was Ogodei installed?
(a) 1230.
(b) 1232.
(c) 1235.
(d) 1240.

3. What did the Mongols believe Friar Carpini brought to them?
(a) Goods from Europe.
(b) Information on Christianity and Jesus.
(c) A message of war.
(d) Submission from the Pope.

4. What land did Subodei wish to invade, when he was about sixty?
(a) China.
(b) Europe.
(c) Persia.
(d) India.

5. Which pope issued a papal bull in 1348, ordering the prosecution of the Jews to halt?
(a) Pope Clement III.
(b) Pope Pius VII.
(c) Pope Clement VI.
(d) Pope Pius III.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a paiza?

2. How did Ogodei combat the bulkiness of bullion and coinage?

3. How many flights of stairs led to Ogodei's throne?

4. Out of approximately 500 plays from the Yuan dynasty, how many survive today?

5. How did Guyuk die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Nicolaus of Cusa?

3. Why did the Mongols face from 1250 - 1270?

4. How did the people of the city-states of Russia interpret the victory of the Mongols?

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

6. What a blitzkrieg?

7. By the end of chapter seven, the Mongol empire was divided into four segments. What were they and who was in charge?

8. What was the first book written in English, and what did it say about Genghis Khan?

9. What was in the tea Khubilai drank the morning after a long night of celebration, and what did it do?

10. What happened on February 14, 1349?

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