Mongolia today
Approximately this percentage of people in Mongolia today still live a pastoral lifestyle.
What is 30%?
Geographic area that describes grasslands where pastoral people live with their animals. It can be very harsh to live their - weather wise.
What are steppes?
Genghis Khan is also known by this first name. Same person.
What is Chinggis?
What is the Delaware River?
Most of the history of the Mongols that was exposed to focused solely on this aspect of it.
What was their violent conquering?
Although the Mongols did destroy when they conquered, they also invested in this term, which includes canals, bridges, roads, and a postal system.
What is infrastructure?
Following the death of Genghis Khan, the issue of "who rules next" aka this was a consistent problem in the Khanates.
What is succession?
Marco Polo was originally from this republic, located in the Northeastern corner of the Italian peninsula. His father and grandfather were merchants and explorers. He became one as well when he was 17.
What is Venice?
People who live a traditional, pastoral lifestyle participate in this sport, from a very young age.
What is horse racing?
Term to describe groups of people whose culture are semi-nomadic and follow the herds of animals that they breed seasonally. The Mongols, Berbers, and Turks all fit this description.
What is pastoral?
This happened to Genghis Khan's father at the hands of a rival tribe when he was only 9 years old, it led to his family's banishment and barely surviving. It also fueled his desire to conquer and gain revenge.
What is he was poisoned and murdered?
This body of water separates New Jersey from Manhattan Island, NYC.
What is the Hudson River?
The Mongols used this war tactic that their overconfident enemies would regret when they tried to chase them back....for days at a time.
What were feigned (fake) retreats?
Part of the Mongol laws to be read to all conquered people assured them that they would have the freedom to do this, as long as they did this.
What was the freedom to practice whatever religion they wanted, as long as they prayed for the Mongols?
In the Yuan Dynasty, resentment about this obligation of peasants to do this, yearly, would lead to rebellions.
What is work on public works projects because it was required?
When Marco Polo cowrote "The Travels of Marco Polo" he was in this type of place, in this Italian city-state.
What was a jail in Genoa?
Pastoral people in Mongolia are able to continue their traditional occupations and lifestyle on the land in the countryside of Mongolia for this reason.
What is they are protected by the government, as that land is owned by the government for them to do so.
A culture where people are generally treated equally, not limited by law due to gender, and expected to equally contribute to their society's success.
What is egalitarian?
Genghis Khan (in keeping with Mongol culture) consulted closely with these people to advise regarding matters of governing and warfare.
Who were women?
This is the oldest college in New Jersey.
What is Princeton University?
The Mongols regularly did this to cities that they conquered (if they tried to resist).
What was burnt them down?
Mongols often located themselves near trade routes as it was necessary to encounter specific artisans for this reason.
What was because the Mongols were semi-nomadic, they did not produce metalwork or certain valuable textiles, like silk?
These people in China were forced into a lower class in the hierarchy under Mongol rule, and they would be restored in the Ming Dynasty to follow.
Who are Han Chinese?
There are still women alive, in remote provinces of China that were part of this cultural practice to gain a better husband.
What is foot-binding?
These people in Mongolia are typically more likely to attend university.
Who are women?
The way in which people in a society are classified.
What is hierarchy?
To this day, this remains a secret about Genghis Khan.
What is where he is buried?
Indigenous people of New Jersey were called this.
Who are Lenni-Lenape?
The Mongols are credited with bringing (not on purpose) this deadly disease and time period across Eurasia.
What was the Bubonic Plague aka Black Death?
The Mongols ended the practice of this, which historically would initiate warfare. However if an enemy did kill one of these people, then there was definitely going to be a war.
What was a diplomat aka envoy aka emissary?
Attempts to conquer this archipelago were disastrous, twice, for the Yuan Dynasty.
What was Japan?
The Great Ming Wall of China is not described in Marco Polo's account of his travels for this reason.
What is that part of the wall wasn't built until 300 years later?
If you approach a traditional Mongolian ger/yurt, you will first be cautious (and welcomed by) this type of animal, who the Mongolians might have been the earliest people to domesticate.
What is a dog?
The administrative officials and staff of a government.
What is a bureaucracy?
Genghis Khan's name and image is commemorated through this country presently.
What is Mongolia?
A significant 18th-century seaport and port of entry known for shipbuilding, lumber, and trade, evolving from early Quaker settlements and Lenape encampments. Originally called "Clamtown" or "Fishtown".
What is Tuckerton?
This technology was utilized in the Yuan (Mongol) attempt to invade Japan.
What was gunpowder?
The Mongols were excellent at fighting in this season, whereas other groups traditionally set up camp and waited it out.
What was the winter?
Attempts to conquer these locations to the south of China were also disastrous. Jungles, diseases, heat, and mountains.
What are Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos?
The origins of noodles/pasta is often debated regarding - China or Italy...what is known is that it is most likely these merchants and conquerors likely brought it from one place to the other.
Who are Arabs?