Ch. 13 Summer Assignment
Answer the following MCQs using your knowledge of world history.
Group 1
Questions 1-3 refer to the passage below
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.
Question 1a
The expansion of the Mongol Empire most directly led to which of the following political developments in Afro-Eurasia?
The spread of feudalism to western Europe, as the Mongol conquests greatly weakened centralized monarchies
The expansion of the Mali Empire in West Africa, as the Mongol conquests destroyed the Abbasid Caliphate
The collapse of previously existing states, such as the Song dynasty of China
The adoption of Islamic systems of rule by Turkic states in the Middle East, such as the Seljuq Empire
Question 1b
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.
Question 1c
Which of the following best describes an effect of the establishment of the Mongol Empire upon Silk Road long distance trade?
The Silk Road trade declined because the Mongol merchants preferred to use maritime long-distance trade networks instead.
The Silk Road trade increased because the Mongol conquests helped connect more regions of Eurasia economically and commercially.
The Silk Road trade was not affected by the Mongol conquests because the tribal and nomadic nature of Mongol society meant that Mongol demand for luxury goods was virtually nonexistent.
The Silk Road trade collapsed following the Mongol conquests because most trading cities along the Silk Roads were destroyed and never recovered.
Group 2
Questions 4-5 refer to the image below
CHINESE SCROLL PAINTING CIRCA 1280 COMMISSIONED BY KHUBILAI KHAN OF THE MONGOL YUAN DYNASTY OF CHINA
*The painting shows Khubilai Khan and his hunting companions on horseback. To the left, a horse archer prepares his weapon.
Question 2a
The establishment of the Mongol Empire directly facilitated which of the following?
Increased cultural and technological exchange between the Islamic world and China
The development of Mongolian as the primary written language of administration across most of Eurasia
The spread of Persian culture into Central Asia
Improved ship designs and navigation techniques for oceanic commerce
Question 2b
The inclusion of the caravan in the painting’s background could best be used as evidence that Yuan rulers
favored some commercial trading organizations over others
portrayed themselves as promoters of commerce
shifted the trade in luxury goods from overland to the maritime trade routes
restricted trade between nomadic and sedentary societies
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