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

2. After their split in 1181, what year did Temujin decide he wanted the title of khan?

3. What notable geographical area did Genghis Khan have to cross to get to the Jurched in 1211?

4. How were orders transmitted through the ranks?

5. At the beginning of chapter two, who first heard the sound of horse hooves of the Merkids hitting the ground?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Genghis Khan's stance on adultery?

3. Who was Botohui-tarhun?

4. How did Ong Khan respond to Temujin's first khuriltai?

5. What revenge tactic did Jmauka employ that severely harmed his image after one of Tejumin's followers murdered one of Jamuka's kinsmen?

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

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

8. What is "The Secret History of the Mongols," and where was it finally found?

9. What was troublesome about Borte's first pregnancy?

10. What happened as soon as the Mongols withdrew from the newly conquered Jurched territory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the nation-state that Genghis Khan created? What was the "Great Law?" What made up the "Great Law?" How did Genghis Khan organize his societies? What important social, cultural, and economic advances did Genghis Khan make in his empire?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Who was Jamuka? Why is Jamuka so important to Genghis Khan? Trace the major events and occurrences between the two men, and be sure to cite in what ways they developed as adults. What happened to Jamuka?

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