Chapter 13: Western Eurasia, 1200-1500
Chapter 14: Eastern Eurasia, 1200-1500
Define the following vocabulary terms:
-Mongols
-Steppe
-Nomadism
-Bubonic plague
-Golden Horde
-Tax farming
-Tsar
-Ottomans
-Mamluks
-lama
-cottage industries
-Forbidden City
-technology transfer
-cotton
-kamikaze
-Ashika Shogunate
-Champa
Reading questions:
1. What accounts for the magnitude and speed of the Mongol conquests?
2. How did Mongol expansion and Islam affect each other?
3. What benefits resulted from the integration of Eurasia into the Mongol
Empire?
4. What were the major effects of Mongol rule on Chinese government,
economy and culture?
5. In what ways did the Ming Empire continue or discontinue Mongol
practices?
6. What are some of the similarities and differences in how Korea and Japan
responded to the Mongol threat?
7. What was the role of women in Mongol society, particularly in politics?
8. How did the rule of the Golden Horde differ from that of the Il-khans?
9. What was the overall effect of the Mongol domination on the shaping of
Russia?
10. Did Mongol occupation affect the cities and the countryside in the same
way? Explain why.
11. What stimulated the growth of the early Ming Period?
12. What kind of civil government system did the Mongols use in China and
how did it compare with past Chinese systems?
13. Why did Japanese isolationism during the Mongol period help stabilize
China’s economy?
14. Discuss the development and many uses of gunpowder.
15. How did Annam’s legal code differ from that of the Ming?