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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. How many members of the Golden Family occupied the throne between the years of 1328 and 1332?
(a) Six.
(b) Eight.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

2. What year did Persia fall from the Mongol rule?
(a) 1325.
(b) 1335.
(c) 1345.
(d) 1315.

3. How did Ogodei influence merchants to seek him out?
(a) Ogodei would punish the families of the merchants who didn't seek him out.
(b) Ogodei would kill merchants who didn't seek him out.
(c) Ogodei often paid twice as much as the asking price.
(d) Ogodei adopted many merchants into his family.

4. Where did Hulegu rule during Khubilai's reign?
(a) India.
(b) Modern-day Nepal.
(c) Ilkhanate.
(d) Modern-day Kyrgystan.

5. What is a she?
(a) A group of about 200,000 peasants.
(b) A group of 1,000 nobility.
(c) A group of 100 nobility.
(d) A group of about 50,000 peasants.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many tons of goods did the Mongols move in 1329?

3. In 1263, Khubilai began the construction of what important building?

4. What was Kerchagan?

5. What was Karakorum?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened on February 14, 1349?

2. What a blitzkrieg?

3. What was special about the mare's milk for Khubilai and his court?

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

5. Who was Nicolaus of Cusa?

6. 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?

7. What happened to the Mongol forces after they severely harmed the samurai warriors?

8. What happened to Professor Lkhagvasuren's teacher?

9. Where did the research team of Jack Weatherford finish their search? What is symbolic about it?

10. Why did the clerics suppose the Mongols were going to ride on Cologne? What happened in 1164 that made them think that way?

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