Mongols

Video Questions

100

Chingis/Ghengis birth name

What is Temujin?

200

The favorite way of killing leaders

What is breaking the spine?

300

Name 2 seas that the Mongol Empire stretched to

What are the Black and Caspian seas?

400

The 2 continents conquered by the Khans

What are Europe & Asia?

500

Mongols were able to fire arrows from this many feet away

What is 350 feet?

Background Questions

100

The grasslands that are flat in Mongolia

What is a steppe?

200

It is estimated that this many million men are descended from Ghenghis Kahn.

What is 16 million?

300

What was the Mongol capital?

Karakorum

400

The amount in millions killed in Eurasia

What is 40 million?

500

 Kublai Khan weakened the empire when he failed to invade this country twice. Hint: Stick to land fights!

What is Japan?

Documents 1-5

100

True or false: The Mongol empire was bigger than the United States.

True

200

True or false: the Mongols launched flaming human fat from catapults.

True

300

The way the Mongols promoted people

What is merit and skill?

400

How many people were put to death if 2 or 3 out of 10 men ran away?

Everyone in that group

500

Ghenghis Kahn joined East to?

What is west?

Documents 6-10

100

True or False: there was lots of theft in the Mongol empire.

False

200

This famous trade route became very safe due to the Mongols

What is the Silk Road?

300

Did the Mongols tolerate different religions?

Yes

400

How many gods did the Mongols believe in?

one

500

How many wives could a Mongol man have?

as many as they wanted

Misc.

100

What is a yurt?

round, movable houses the Mongols lived in

200

What famous person visited Kublai Khan in 1271?

Marco Polo

300

The Iraq city conquered by the Mongols in 1258 where it was a terrible massacre

What is Baghdad?

400

Ghenghis Kahn outlawed this barbaric practice of those captured.

What is torture?

500

The name of Mongolia's current capital

What is Ulaanbaatar?