AP World History
Chapter 12- Mongol Eurasia 1200-15000
Study Guide
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Section 1: The Rise of the Mongols pg 295-302
1. List the advantages of Mongol rule
2. The Greek historian Herodotus portrayed steppe nomads as
3. Describe the role of the Mongol leader, the “Khan”
4. What was the role of Mongol women in politics?
5. What religions did nomads of Central Asians practice?
6. What metal was crucially important to the Central Asian nomads?
7. The first Mongol conquests under Genghis Khan were in
8. What techniques were employed by the Mongols to defeat the armies they faced?
9. Why did the Mongols refrain from attacking central Europe in 1241?
10. How did Marco Polo’s narratives affect Europeans?
11. What effects did the Mongol expansion have?
Section 2: Mongols and Islam pg 302-307
12. The conflict between Il-khan and the Golden Horde originated in what type of differences?
13. In 1295, the Il-khan ruler Ghazan converted to which religion?
14. Tax farming can be described as what?
15. Who was Juvaini?
16. Why was there a cultural flowering in Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia under the Timurids?
17. Who attempted to write the first world history?
18. Islamic mathematician Nasir al-Din strongly influenced what famous European?
19. The Timurids supported the advancement of astronomical observation, particularly the discovery of
Section 3: Regional Responses in Western Eurasia pg 307-309
20. How did Mongol control impact Russia’s Orthodox church?
21. Why did Moscow become Russia’s dominant political center under the Mongols?
22. Mongol rule of Russia was overthrown by
23. As in Anatolia and the states of Eastern Europe, the Teutonic knights fought against who?
24. Mongol armies often consisted of who?
25. How were the Europeans influenced by the Mongols?
26. In 1453, the Ottomans conquered which important Christian city?
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AP World History
Chapter 12- Mongol Eurasia 1200-15000
Study Guide
Name: _________________
Section 4: Mongol Domination in China pg 309-312
27. The Mongols were influenced by religious leaders from
28. How did the Mongols change China permanently?
29. The Yuan tax administration relied on what people groups?
30. What changes did the Mongols bring to China?
31. To solve the problem of a money shortage, the Mongols introduced what two solutions?
32. What impacts on the rise of cities came under Mongol rule?
33. What negative impacts did Mongol rule have on China?
34. The Mongols encouraged the sharing and exchange of what achievements?
Section 5: Early Ming Empire pg 312-315
35. How did the Yuan Empire decline, how was it overthrown and what empire replaced it?
36. To demonstrate their rejection of the Mongols, the Ming emperor did what two things?
37. The Emperor Yongle improved the imperial complex built by the Mongols called?
38. The Emperor Yongle restored commercial links with the Middle East by doing what?
39. Zheng He’s primary accomplishment was what?
40. Why didn’t Ming China develop seafaring for commercial and military gain?
41. Why did the Chinese rigorously censored information to foreigners?
42. Ming advancement in literature is best reflected what novels?
43. What did the Ming produce as one of the most prized commercial products of Eurasia?
Section 6: Centralization and Militarism in East Asia pg 317-322
44. How did the Mongols influence Korea?
45. How did the Koryo family adapt to Mongol rule?
46. Although the Yi Kingdom publicly rejected the Mongols, they actually did what?
47. The rise of literacy in Korea resulted from the what technology?
48. How did the introduction of cotton impact Korea?
49. What military techniques or innovations made the Yi military a formidable defensive force?
50. What prevented the Mongols from invading Japan?
51. How did the threat of Mongol invasion affect Japan?
52. Kamikaze means
53. The ancestor of modern Vietnam was formed when Annam did what?
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