| The saying “Do not waste good iron making nails; do not waste good men making soldiers” reflects the attitude of the ______ toward their military. | Jin dynasty Liao dynasty Naiman Confederation Song dynasty |
| What caused the sizable population rise in Song China during the eleventh century? | the use of strains of rice that ripened quickly enough to allow for two harvests in a single year Mongolian soldiers protecting trade routes that allowed more food to be imported the invention of horse-drawn plows that allowed more land to be cultivated the immigration of refugees from Chinggis Khan’s conquests |
| What empire maintained a dual system of governance in which formerly seminomadic peoples were governed in their traditional manner, while Chinese populations were governed by mandarins? | Liao Jin Song Tatar |
| How did Temujin change traditional seminomadic practices for dealing with men captured from the clans or tribes he defeated? | He tried and executed the leaders but spared the commoners, even allowing them to join his army. He ordered all captured enemies killed, sparing no one regardless of class. He ordered all captives enslaved. He ordered commoners killed but spared the leadership of his defeated rivals. |
| What was the intention of Chinggis Khan’s yassa? | to remove sources of conflict and strife among Mongols to reinforce the objectification of women to force all Mongols to worship Tengri to make the Mongolian economy self-sufficient |
| Who ultimately conquered the Jin dynasty? | Ogedei Chinggis Khan Mongke Hulagu |
| What does the term kurultai mean? | a proto-democratic gathering of a Mongol leader’s followers to reach agreement on major political decisions a medallion carried by Mongol government officials to identify them as under the great khan’s protection Chinggis Khan’s law code rest areas that provided lodging, supplies, and fresh horses for those on official business |
| Why is Ariq Boke important? | because his challenge to Kublai ended the unity of the Mongol Empire because he conquered the Abbassid Caliphate because he conquered Song China because he succeeded Chinggis Khan |
| What Mongol khanate was the first to fragment beyond recovery after a succession struggle? | the Il-Khanate the Khanate of the Golden Horde the Chagatai Khanate the Khanate of the Great Khan |
| What was the only part of the Mongol world in which the rulers did not convert to Islam? | the Khanate of the Great Khan the Il-Khanate the Khanate of the Golden Horde the Chagatai Khanate |
| Economic growth in Yuan China was ______. | less than in Song China even greater than in Song China unchanged from Song China hard to evaluate because no records were kept |
| Jerusalem was temporarily restored to Christian control by ______. | the Treaty of Jaffa the Fourth Crusade the Fifth Crusade the crusade led by Louis IX |
| What was the purpose of the Constitutions of Melfi? | strengthen the king’s control over his vassals and the clergy require the Cortes to meet every year ensure all free adults were tried by juries of their peers ensure that no free people were deprived of property without due process |
| Where did the Almohads rule? | Iberia and North Africa Mesopotamia and Persia Byzantium Egypt and the Levant |
| Under what name did Salah al-Din’s descendants rule Egypt and Syria? | Ayyubids Almohads Hohenstaufens Mamluks |
| What Mongol khanate weakened itself in several failed attempts to conquer the Delhi Sultanate? | the Il-Khanate the Khanate of the Golden Horde the Chagatai Khanate the Khanate of the Great Khan |
