Who's running the place?
What was Genghis Khan's real name?
Temujin
What 3-letter words describe how kings believed they were meant to be kings?
Mandate of heaven
What 2 important weapons did the Mongol invaders use to conquer people?
Bows and arrows as well as short swords
What does "khan" mean?
Chief (like a leader)
Tell me the name of Genghis Khan's grandson.....
Kublai Khan
Along with the power to rule, kings also had the ________________ to make good decisions for the people or they could be overthrown.
responsibility
Besides being excellent horsemen, the Mongols were very good with bows and arrows....what is the use of bows and arrows called?
Archery
The word for the structure Genghis Khan slept in was what?
Yurt
What kind of rule is it called where family members are the ones who hold power, usually generation after generation?
Dynasty
The political leader of a country or groups of countries was called an ________________.
Emperor
List the 2 visual signals Mongol fighters used to communicate on the battlefields.....
Flags by day and fires by night
People with no permanent home and keep herds of animals (like cows and sheep) are known as:
Nomads
What was the name for the 4 groups the Mongols controlled after Genghis Khan died and the empire was broken up? What were these regions called?
Khanates
Resources, wealth and other things that belong to the emperor are called _______________ things.
Imperial
Identify a psychological (mind game!) method used by the Mongols to intimidate people......what would they do to try and get villages to surrender to them before they attacked them?
Answers could be:
1. Allowed a few people to survive to go and warn the next village to surrender.
2. Also, they used brutality (very mean actions).
Either answer will earn the points!
The Mongols sometimes accepted the religious beliefs of the people they conquered. Which religion did they most often participate in or practice?
Islam
What was it that motivated the Chinese to kick the Mongols out of the dynasty that Kublai Khan had started?
Resentment that the Mongols wouldn't allow the Chinese to hold any government jobs, not having a say in how their country should be ruled.
The ____________________ cycle was based on whether or not the king had the authority from the god(s) to rule. This cycle went from the king having the authority, then bad things happen and the authority to rule is lost, the king gets kicked out, then it starts over again with a new king....what's this called?
dynastic
What was a tactic or method the Mongols used that spread disease and caused the death of many people (it also impacted the Silk Road in a bad way)?
Throwing plague-infected bodies over castle walls and onto ships that went from port to port.
The 100 year period of no fighting (because most of the people the Mongols attacked were dead!) is known as the:
"Pax Mongol", or Mongolian Peace