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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 Ogodei combat the bulkiness of bullion and coinage?

2. How did Toregene die?

3. What percentage of the people living in the Hopei Province died in 1331?

4. What year was Ogodei installed?

5. What animal did the plague bacterium live in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What effect did the Mongols have on the literary arts in China?

3. How did the Soviets adapt Genghis Khan's battle tactics in World War II?

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

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

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

7. How did Mongke Khan die?

8. What happened to the slaves sold to the Italians by the Mongols? Where did they come from and what would they do in a short twenty years?

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

10. What happened on February 14, 1349?

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

Who was Ong Khan? What was his relationship with Genghis Khan? Describe how the two men came to know each other, and the relationship that formed. Highlight all the important historical events between the two men, and what happened at the end of Ong Khan's life.

Essay Topic 3

What was the role of the Mongol empire in China? What did Genghis Khan and Khubilai Khan do for China that nobody had done before? What results did this produce for China? What effects were good, which were bad, and why? What lasting impressions of the Mongol empire are seen today? What aspects of the Mongol invasion were wiped from Chinese memory, and why? What is the general feeling towards Genghis Khan in China today?

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