AMSCO 2.2 Quiz

True or False: Mongol men and women were both skilled horse riders

• True

• False

What attribute was most valuable to Genghis Khan when growing his kingdom?

• Ability to ride a horse

• Family

• Equality

• Personal Loyalty

Genghis Khan had the reputation as a

• Fair and just leader

• Terrifying warrior

• Unapproachable leader

• Timid warrior

What did Mongols do with the weapons and technology of peoples they conquered?

• Burned it in the center of the city

• Ignored it

• Stole the scholars who made it

• Incorporated it into their own military

Hulegu and most of the Mongols living in the Il-Khanate converted to:

• Christianity

• Buddhism

• Hinduism

• Islam

The Mongols reintroduced a system of long distance, peaceful, interregional trade from 1250-1350 called the

• Golden Silk Road

• The Golden Horde

• Pax Mongolica

• Mongol Yoke

“It is widely accepted that the rise of the Mongol Empire greatly expanded trade and the circulation of goods. . . . Since the fall of the Uighur Empire [in the ninth century], Mongolia was a region removed from the main trade routes. Thus the Mongols irrupted into the wider world as a relatively unknown society. As the Mongol Empire dominated Eurasia, envoys, merchants and travelers came to the court of the Mongols . . . and participated in . . . the exchange of goods, ideas, technology and people precipitated by the Mongol conquests.”

Timothy May, United States historian, academic article, 2016

The breakup of the Mongol Empire into separate khanates during the mid-thirteenth century was most connected to which of the following developments?

• The spread of the bubonic plague following the expansion of trade along the Silk Roads weakened the Mongol Empire demographically and militarily.

• Mongol traditions emphasized tribal and personal loyalties and made it difficult to establish long-lasting centralized dynastic rule, which led to civil war.

• Rebellions in China overthrew Mongol rule there and led to the reestablishment of Han Chinese rule under the Ming dynasty.

• The attempts of Mongol rulers to force their subjects to convert to Islam led to widespread rebellions in Central and East Asia.

8. The Mongol’s conquest __________________________ the spread the bubonic plague.

• helped

• hurt

• did not contribute to