Unit 3 Test Study Guide (Chapters 12-15)
Part I: Mongol & Ming Mania (Ch. 12)
1.What methods did Genghis Khan use to expand and control the Mongol Empire? What was his first conquest?
2.Which of the Mongol Khans conquered Rus' in 1236? Which of the Mongol Khans formed the Yuan Empire in China?
3.Over which territory did the Golden Horde rule?
4. What was the cause of division between the Mongol khans in 1265?
5.After rejection by his family for the title of Great Khan, Khubilai formed
6.What factors contributed to Mongol military supremacy?
7.Which explorer’s narratives of the Mongol Empire piqued European interest Asia?
8.What was the worst thing to spread via Mongol trade routes?
9.To which religion did the Il-khan ruler Ghazan convert in 1295?
10.With whom did the Golden Horde form an alliance in an attempt to repel non-Muslims in the Il-Khan?
11.Which ruler attacked the Muslim sultanate of Delhi in 1398?
12.Know that the significant scientific discoveries of Islamic scholars were translated by Arabic, Byzantine, Christian, and
Indian monks and scholars.
13.What economic problems did Russia see during the time of Mongol domination?
14.Which Russian prince advocated cooperation with the Mongols to avoid destructive assimilation?
15.Which Russian ruler was the first to use the term "tsar"?
16.Which discoveries did Europeans learn about from the Mongols?
17. Which important Christian city did the Ottomans conquer in 1453?
18.What were the benefits of Mongol rule in the Yuan Empire?
19.Which language gained influence due to urbanization in Yuan China?
20. Which empire overthrew and replaced the Yuan Empire in 1368?
21.How did Ming emperors demonstrate their rejection of the Mongols?
22.How did the emperor Yongle improve the imperial complex built by the Mongols?
23.Why did the emperor Yongle put an emphasis on trade by ships?
24.The Ming produced one of the most prized commercial products of Eurasia. What was it?
25.Which Asian empire escaped Mongol domination?
26.Describe the relationship between the leading family in Korea, the Koryo family, and the Mongols.
27.What caused the rise of literacy in Korea?
28.What was the major cash crop of the Yi kingdom?
29.How did the threat of Mongol invasion affect Japan?
Part II: Mansa Musa…..and other stuff (Chapter 13)
30.What is the center of the tropical zone?
31.What natural phenomenon influences the rainy and dry seasons in the Indian Ocean?
32.Where was the greatest network of irrigation canals between the 14-19th century found? Hint…. this empire also
provided centralized political authority to India.
33.Which region(s) contained the largest concentration of pastoralists in the world?
34.What did the empires of Mali in West Africa and Delhi in South Asia have in common?
35. How did the spread of Islam to lands south of the Sahara come about? How was the spread of Islam in India different?
36. Who was the founder of Mali according to Malinke legend?
37. Whose legendary pilgrimage demonstrated the fabulous wealth of Mali? Hint…. he is my homeboy. Another hint…his
pilgrimage resulted in the construction of new mosques and Quranic schools in Mali.
38.What was the characteristic ship of the Arabian Sea? What was the largest, most technologically advanced ship in the
Indian Ocean?
39. What was the basis for economic and political power in the Great Zimbabwe? What caused the collapse of Great
Zimbabwe?
40. Know the importance of the Strait of Malacca in Indian Ocean trade.
41. What other purpose did mosques serve in Islamic society, apart from being used for religious worship?
42.What unfortunate institution was largely responsible for the prosperity of the Asian and African kingdoms from 1200
to 1500?
Part III: Medieval Mayhem (Chapter 14)
43.How was the Bubonic Plague brought to Europe?
44.What was the three-field system?
45.What percentage of Europeans died during the Black Death? What were some results of the plague?
46.Be familiar with the technologies that contributed to the growth of metal working in the Middle Ages.
47.Know the relationship between trade and urbanization in Medieval Europe.
48. What was Marco Polo's ultimate goal?
49.What was the predominant city for trade with the Far East during the Middle Ages?
50. What was a guild?
51. What was the Hanseatic League and where was it based?
52. Be familiar with all of the merchant banking services that emerged in the fifteenth century.
52. Know the architectural characteristics of Gothic cathedrals, and where the first ones were built.
53.Where did the Renaissance begin?
54.What were the two new religious orders in the 13th century that lent themselves to teaching?
55.In what language were courses taught in all the universities of the Latin West?
56.Who wrote the most notable work in Scholasticism, the Summa Theologica?
57.What did the composition of literature in the vernacular lead to?
58.What resource enabled the artistic growth of the Renaissance?
59. What was Joan of Arc famous for?
60. Which group was expelled in the Spanish "reconquest?”
61. Which permanent part of English government emerged by 1500?
Part IV: Maritime Exploration Junk (Chapter 15)
62. What treasures did Zheng He’s junk carry? Why did the Ming court eventually suspend his voyages?
63.Who were the greatest mariners of the Atlantic in the Early Middle Ages?
64.What two nations began a maritime revolution that profoundly altered the course of world history?
65.What were the motives for Iberian overseas expansion? What were the motives for Portuguese maritime exploration?
66. Why didn't the Italian states take a lead in exploring the Atlantic?
67. Why was Prince Henry of Portugal known as Henry the Navigator?
68.Who invented the magnetic compass and the astrolabe (a group, not a specific person)?
69.What contribution did the Portuguese make to shipbuilding technology?
70.Who was the first Portuguese explorer to reach the southern tip of Africa and view the Indian Ocean?
71. What did Columbus (erroneously) think he had reached when he arrived in the Caribbean Islands?
72.The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the New World between which two European powers?
73. How did the Portuguese gain control of the eastern Indian Ocean? What was their base in China?
74.What was the difference between the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire?
75.Who were the