Question 1

What was the attitude of the Mongols to the religions they encountered?

Accepted Answer

A)   They despised Islam but converted to Christianity.
B)   They banned all religions.
C)   They tolerated most religions.
D)   They merged Hinduism and Islam to create a new state religion. C

Question 2

Following the death of Chinggis Khan, who succeeded him as khagan of the Mongols?

Accepted Answer

A)   Kubilai
B)   Batu
C)   Berke
D)   Ogedei D

Question 3

When did Chinggis Khan die?

Accepted Answer

A)   1027
B)   1127
C)   1227
D)   1327 C

Question 4

The ruler of the Ikhan horde was

Accepted Answer

A)   Berke.
B)   Kubilai.
C)   Batu.
D)   Hulegu.

Question 5

In 1271, Kubilai Khan changed the name of the Mongol dynasty in China to

Accepted Answer

A)   Qin.
B)   Chin.
C)   Yuan.
D)   Ming.

Question 6

Which of the khanates undertook the invasion of the Muslim heartland?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Ilkhan khanate
B)   The Karakorum khanate
C)   The Chinese khanate
D)   The Golden Horde

Question 7

What was the basic unit of Mongol society?

Accepted Answer

A)   The nuclear family
B)   The tribe
C)   The guild
D)   The city-state

Question 8

Which of the following areas was not exposed to the Turkic expansion of the 1360s?

Accepted Answer

A)   Persia
B)   China
C)   India
D)   Southern Russia

Question 9

Who was the Turkic nomadic leader who began a period of conquest beginning in the 1360s?

Accepted Answer

A)   Muhamman Shah
B)   Ibn Pasha
C)   Timur-i Lang
D)   Ibn Khaldun

Question 10

Which of the following was NOT a method employed by Kubilai Khan to maintain the separation of Mongols and Chinese?

Accepted Answer

A)   Chinese were forbidden to serve at any level of the Mongol administration.
B)   Chinese scholars were forbidden to learn the Mongol script.
C)   Mongols were forbidden to marry ethnic Chinese.
D)   Only women from nomadic families were selected for the imperial harem.

Question 11

What tactic on the field of battle was employed most frequently by Chinggis Khan?s forces?

Accepted Answer

A)   Frontal assault by massed cavalry
B)   Massed artillery barrage followed by infantry attacks on the flanks
C)   Trench warfare
D)   Pretended flight to draw the enemy out followed by heavy cavalry attacks on the flanks

Question 12

Which of the following weapons was NOT part of the arsenal of the Mongol army under Chinggis Khan?

Accepted Answer

A)   Bows and arrows
B)   Chain mail
C)   Bronze cannon
D)   Iron maces

Question 13

Which of the following was a major change in the administration of China under the Mongols?

Accepted Answer

A)   The central bureaucracy was dismissed and the Mongol dynasty ruled with a military elite.
B)   The Mongols discontinued the use of the examination system to keep the scholar-gentry from gaining too much power.
C)   The Mongols divided all of China into four great khanates under separate and independent rulers.
D)   Confucianism was suppressed and Daoism became the state religion of China.

Question 14

The Mongols were defeated in 1260 at Ain Jalut by the

Accepted Answer

A)   crusader states and their Assassin allies.
B)   Mamluk dynasty of Egypt.
C)   Ottoman Turks.
D)   forces of the Byzantine Empire.

Question 15

Chinggis Khan?s first campaigns were directed against

Accepted Answer

A)   Russia.
B)   Baghdad and the Islamic heartland.
C)   India.
D)   the Tangut kingdom of Xi-Xia and the Qin kingdom of northern China.

Question 16

Following Chinggis Khan?s death, what was the provision for the administration of the empire?

Accepted Answer

A)   It was divided into four regional kingdoms, or khanates, ruled by his sons and grandsons.
B)   It was centralized with a Mongol bureaucracy located at the Chinese capital of Tatu.
C)   The empire immediately fragmented into its constituent tribes and clans.
D)   It passed as a single government with its capital at Karakorum to Chinggis Khan?s oldest son.

Question 17

What two social groups that suffered low status under the Confucian social system benefited most from the Yuan administration?

Accepted Answer

A)   Peasants and aristocracy
B)   Scholar-gentry and aristocracy
C)   Merchants and artisans
D)   Military elite and scholar-gentry

Question 18

Why did sedentary civilizations progressively dominate nomadic societies after the 15th century?

Accepted Answer

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Question 19

The prince of Muscovy in alliance with other Russian princes, defeated the Golden Horde in 1380 at the battle of

Accepted Answer

A)   Bratislava.
B)   Cracow.
C)   Kulikova.
D)   Ain Jalut.

Question 20

Which of the following was NOT one of the positive aspects of Chinggis Khan?s imperial rule?

Accepted Answer

A)   He promulgated a legal code to end divisions and quarrels among the Mongol clans.
B)   He brought peace to much of Asia.
C)   He promoted the growth of trade and commerce.
D)   He ordered the creation of huge pastures in northern China for the use of the Mongol clans.

Exam 19: The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur