Mongols

The largest empire of all time was created by the

• Romans.

• Chinese.

• Mongols.

• Indians.

Karakorum was the

• Asian capital of the Mongol empire.

• founder of the Mongol empire.

• last powerful Mongol ruler.

• leading god in the Mongol divine hierarchy.

Yurts were

• tents used by the nomadic Turks.

• the first powerful Turkish tribe.

• Turkish chieftains.

• the shamans who dominated nomadic Turkish religious thought.

The nomadic Turkish tribes made use of kumiss, which

• was an iron lance.

• were large tents made of felt.

• were central Asian oxen.

• was an alcoholic drink fermented from mare's milk.

The class structure of nomadic societies normally produced

• a tightly-structured class system with little flexibility.

• no class distinctions.

• a fluid two-class system of nobles and commoners.

• a division into nobles, warriors, farmers, and slaves.

The noble class, in nomadic society,

• ruled with absolute authority at all times.

• was fluid, with many opportunities for rising and falling.

• based their wealth and power on extensive landholdings.

• received their position through inheritance, and couldn't lose it.

The earliest religion of the Turkish peoples was

• shamanistic.

• Islam.

• Buddhist.

• Nestorian Christian.

In the tenth century, the Turks living near the Abbasid empire began a large-scale conversion to

• Buddhism.

• Nestorian Christianity.

• Islam.

• Zoroastrianism.

The political power of the khans was based on

• a tightly structured imperial framework.

• indirect rule through the leaders of allied tribes.

• the shamanistic belief in the divinity of the ruler.

• an educated class of scholarly bureaucrats

Nomadic peoples' military might was based on their

• infantry.

• possessing much larger armies than their enemies.

• extensive use of artillery.

• cavalry forces.