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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Temjin take the throne after the important khuriltai?

2. What was the largest kingdom in China in the thirteenth century?

3. What was the first thing the Mongol soldiers did every morning when they broke camp?

4. What did Genghis Khan do when he was asked to submit to the Jurched and the new Golden Khan?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Botohui-tarhun?

2. Describe the steppe.

3. What was the Great Law of Genghis Khan?

4. How did Genghis Khan quickly depopulate an area, and for what strategic purpose?

5. What was in the caravan Genghis Khan sent to the sultan of Khwarizm?

6. How did the people of Kashgar feel about the Mongols?

7. What is group responsibility and group guilt?

8. Genghis Khan opened his succession khuriltai by citing a fable. Summarize the fable Genghis Khan told.

9. Describe the Ikh Khorig.

10. What did Jamuka offer Temujin in death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What effects did the Mongol empire have on Europe? What did the Mongol empire provide to Europe that nobody had done before? What resulted in Europe because of the Mongol presence? What impressions of the Mongol empire can be seen in Europe today?

Essay Topic 2

Why were the Mongol people often linked with people of the Jewish faith? Who made this connection? Why? What happened, because of this misconception? Be sure to illustrate multiple historical instances in your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What was the Silk Road? Who controlled the Silk Road before Genghis Khan, and what was its condition? How did Genghis Khan finally control the Silk Road? What did he do to it? Why is the Silk Road so important?

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