Mongols Part 1

Question 1

Traditionally Mongols were not ___ people.

Answer 1

Mongols were not united people

Question 2

Who gathered various Mongol groups to conquer much of Asia to the Caspian Sea?

Answer 2

Genghis Khan d.1227

Question 3

How far did his sons and grandsons conquer?

Answer 3

reaching Russia, eastern Europe, and SW Asia

Question 4

When did the Mongols crush Baghdad and China?

Answer 4

Baghdad in 1258, China 1279

Question 5

What was the empire divided into after Genghis Khan’s death?

Answer 5

khanates

Question 6

What ruled Russia from a distance?

Answer 6

The Golden Horde

Question 7

What governed central Asia?

Answer 7

The Chagatai

Question 8

What controlled SW Asia.

Answer 8

The Iikhanate

Question 9

What did Kublai Khan (Genghis Khan ‘s grandson) establish after conquering China?

Answer 9

The Yuan dynasty

Question 10

How long did the Yuan dynasty?

Answer 10

lasted until 1368

Question 11

What took over after the Yuan dynasty fell?

Answer 11

The Ming

Question 12

What did Yuan rule avoid in China?

Answer 12

Confucian scholars

Question 13

When did Marco Polo travel to China?

Answer 13

in the late 1200s

Question 14

Why did Mongol women have more opportunities than other places?

Answer 14

men were often at war so women had says over the household, also wives of khans sometimes made decisions regarding the empire

Question 15

What is the Mongol’s traditional economy?

Answer 15

pastoral, but with conquest they got loot and gained tribute

Question 16

Why did the Mongol Empire decline?

Answer 16

infighting among the khan, decline of competent leadership, and a push by peoples ruled by them to gain freedom

Question 17

Who was Timur and what did he do?

Answer 17

he claimed descent from the Mongols conquered a significant empire in the late 1300s but it did not last long