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Exam 11: The Worlds of Islam: Afro-Eurasian Connections, 600-1500

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Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -A mongol princess (ca. 1260-1306) whose exploits in battle and wrestling along with her choice of husbands provide insight into the relative freedom and influence of elite Mongol women in their societies.

A) pastoralism
B) Modun
C) Xiongnu
D) Turks
E) Almoravid Empire
F) Temujin/Chinggis Khan
G) the Mongol world war
H) Yuan dynasty China
I) Khubilai Khan
J) Hulegu
K) Khutulun
L) Kipchak Khanate/Golden Horde
M) Black Death/plague

N) G) and I)
O) A) and G)

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Which of the following is a reason Western Europe was not conquered by the Mongols?

A) Western Europe lacked adequate pasture for Mongol herds.
B) Western Europe successfully resisted the Mongol invasions.
C) The Black Death had devastated the Mongol army.
D) European rulers formed an alliance with the Mongols.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -Name given to Russia by the Mongols after they conquered it and incorporated it into the Mongol Empire in the mid-thirteenth century; known to Russians as the Khanate of the _______.

Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -People of the Mongolian steppe lands north of China who formed a large-scale nomadic empire in the third and second centuries B·C·E·.

Refer to Map 11.1 in the textbook. Which country was not conquered by the Mongols despite repeated invasions?

In comparison to the Mongol conquests of Persia and China, Mongol rule in Russia

Like the Arabs and the Persians, the Turks between the tenth and fourteenth centuries

To govern their empire, what types of policies did Mongol rulers implement and what infrastructure did they set up?

Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -Mongol dynasty that ruled from 1271 to 1368; its name means "great beginnings."

Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -Emerging out of an Islamic reform movement among the Sanhaja Berber pastoralists in the eleventh century, this empire incorporated a large part of northwestern Africa with its capital in Marrakesh. In 1086, it crossed into southern Spain where it offered vigorous opposition to Christian efforts to conquer the region. The empire had collapsed by the mid-twelfth century.

Why was promoting international commerce important to the Mongols?

Which region gained the most from the exchanges of ideas and technologies facilitated by the Mongol Empire?

In which regions of Africa and Eurasia did the Black Death have its greatest impact, and where did it have less of an impact?

Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -Grandson of Chinggis Khan (ca. 1217-1265) who became the first il-khan (subordinate khan) of Persia.

Which of the following describes the transformation of the Turkic people from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries?

Use the following to answer questions: Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. Terms -An alternative kind of food-producing economy focused on the raising of livestock. It emerged only in the Afro-Eurasian world because in the Americas the absence of large animals that could be domesticated precluded a herding economy.

Mongol rule in Russia facilitated the rise to power of which city?

How were the Mongols changed by their experiences as the rulers of an empire that encompassed such a diverse range of peoples and cultures?

What impact did pastoral peoples have on the spread of Islam?

What accounts for the differences in the effect of Mongol rule on China, Persia, and Russia?