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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. What year did the assigned person present Khubilai with an alphabet that could write all the languages in the world?

2. Who was the first person Guyuk attacked, in 1246, as a display of his power as khan?

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

4. Throughout the Renaissance the Mongols were generally treated with adulation. However, what time period opened up a distinct anti-Asian sentiment?

5. When did Sokhokhtani die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Nicolaus of Cusa?

3. Why and how did the Mongols promote education in China?

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

5. For most of the twentieth century, who maintained Mongolia?

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

7. What do "generous scholars" attribute to Khubilai's frequent delays during the war with the Sung?

8. What happened to Professor Lkhagvasuren's teacher?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the Mongol empire effect agriculture in their world? Do those advances or changes have any lasting effect in the modern world? What did the Mongols do to agriculture to change it? What other benefits resulted from those changes? What agriculturally-related laws and rules did the Mongols contribute?

Essay Topic 2

What was the bubonic plague? What effect did it have on the Mongol empire? Explore this in depth, using support from the book to detail the many ways in which the bubonic plague effected the Mongol empire.

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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