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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 was the shared name of the three princes who commanded the Christian cities of the plain in 1223?

2. How many flights of stairs led to Ogodei's throne?

3. To whom did Ogodei convey most of his administrative power?

4. Where was the first khuriltai called after Guyuk died?

5. How far did the envoy travel to see King Edward the I of England?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was superior about the Chinese paper over the parchment made by Europeans?

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

3. What a blitzkrieg?

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

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

6. What happened on February 14, 1349?

7. What happened to Professor Lkhagvasuren's teacher?

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

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

10. How did Matthew Paris link the Mongols to the Jewish people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways do you see the impact of the Mongols, the Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan and Khubilai Khan in the world today? How can you identify those aspects? How can we attribute these bits of the modern world to the Mongols? Be sure to use specific examples of what comes from the Mongols, and why.

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

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?

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