3rd Period
The Decline of the Mongols
1. What did the Ilkhan try to do in the 1290s to resolve his financial difficulties?
2. How come the ilkhanate collapsed in Persia?
3. Who were the group of people that reintroduced effective central government in the late
fourteenth century?
4. Why did the general population lose confidence in paper money?
5. How did the Mongols spread epidemic disease?
6. What is the Bubonic plague known as?
7. What problems did epidemic plague cause economically in Mongol China?
8. Which khanates survived after the collapse of Mongol regimes in Persia and China?
9. Why did Tamerlane get his name?
10. How was Tamerlane like Chinggis Khan?
11. Why were rich cities important to Tamerlane?
12. How did Tamerlane rule?
13. Which following kingdoms reflected the legacy of the Lame Conqueror?
14. Where did Osman come from? What was their ethnicity? What did his followers come to be
known as?
15. Who was a leader of the Seljuq Turks?
16. What/Why advantage did the Ottomans have over their Turkish rivals?
17. How come the ottomans received abundant support from the people of the Balkan peninsula?
18. How did the Byzantium Empire end?
19. What did he rename Constantinople?
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The Decline of the Mongols
Why was paper money introduced in the Ilkhanate?
What did Mongol conquests do for trade?
What was the issue with paper money in the Mongol Empire?
What was the bubonic plague known as and why?
Which three Muslim Turkish stated did Tamerlane’s empire influence?
What dominated the Caucasus and the steppe lands north of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea
until the mid-16th century?
Why was Timur referred to as Timu-ilang?
What was the result of Tamerlane’s grandsons and sons continuous disagreements?
What does “Timur-I lang” mean?
What did Sultan Mehmed II rename Constantinople to?
Why did nomadic Turks migrate beyond territories the Seljuq Turks seized?
Who did Osman declare independence from in 1299?
How did the Khanate of the Golden Horde fall?
How did Osman quickly create the Ottoman Empire?
15. Who built a central Asia empire rivaling that of Chinggis Khan?
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The Decline of the Mongols
What did Ilkhan do to resolve financial difficulties?
Why was Mongolian paper money ineffective?
After the death of Ilkhan Ghazah is 1309 what happened?
What are the 2 types of technology diffused during this period? Give examples of each
What is one of the causes for decreasing populations?
Where did Tamerlane build his imperial capital?
Which major city did Sultan Mehmed II conquer and in what year?
What was the epidemic that reached Southwest Asia and Europe called?
Why did Mongols often take censuses of the lands they conquered?
Osman was the founder of what group of people?
What 2 things hastened Mongol decline in both China and Persia?
Who is Tamerlane?
What strained the treasury in Persia?