AP World History : Empires, Colonialism, Imperialism, Decolonization, and Globalization 600 CE to 1450
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Example Question #83 : Empires, Colonialism, Imperialism, And Decolonization
This ruler controlled the largest contiguous empire in world history.
Genghis Khan
Mao Zedong
Julius Caesar
Kublai Khan
Tokugawa Shogunate
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan, who ruled the Mongolian Empire from 1206-1227, controlled the largest, 33 million square kilometers, contagious land area in human history. After uniting the many nomadic tribes of northern Asia, he began expansion westward — eventually making it to the European plateau. Widely considered genocidal, he also brought the silk road under one commander and widespread cross-cultural communication across the Asian continent.
Example Question #84 : Empires, Colonialism, Imperialism, And Decolonization
This ancient ruler was the first to unite many of the nomadic tribes after the fall of Rome in Western Europe, and laid the groundwork for modern-day France and Germany.
Charlemagne
King Henry VIII
Pope Innocent V
Julius Caesar
Louis the Pious
Charlemagne
Charlemagne, with the approval and blessing of the Pope, united the majority of Western Europe under a single empire called the Carolingian Empire. After the fall of Rome he was the first ruler to accomplish this task and the lands and boundaries he established laid the groundwork for the modern states of France and Germany.
Example Question #85 : Empires, Colonialism, Imperialism, And Decolonization
After the fall of the Tang dynasty __________.
China fragmented into several states, the most powerful of which was the Song
China was reunified under the Ming
China was reunified under the Song
China was reunified under the Yuan
China fragmented into several states, the most powerful of which was the Yuan
China fragmented into several states, the most powerful of which was the Song
After the fall of the Tang dynasty in the early tenth century, China fragmented into several smaller states. The largest of these states was the Song, which ruled over a stretch of China from the Yellow river in the north to the Vietnamese border in the south.
Example Question #86 : Empires, Colonialism, Imperialism, And Decolonization
The Jagatai Khanate ruled __________.
East Asia
Central Asia
the Indian subcontinent
the Middle East
Eastern Europe
Central Asia
The Jagatai Khanate was one of the four divisions of the Mongol Empire (along with the Ilkhan Empire, the Golden Horde, and the empire of Kublai Khan in China). The Jagatai ruled over a massive swathe of land in Central Asia, including the vital Silk Road trading city of Samarkand.
Example Question #87 : Empires, Colonialism, Imperialism, And Decolonization
Which of these great empires was not destroyed by the Mongols?
the Abbasid Caliphate
the Khwarazmian Empire
Song China
These were all destroyed by the Mongols.
the Kievan Rus
These were all destroyed by the Mongols.
All of these empires were completely destroyed by the Mongols in the thirteenth century. The Mongols infamously sacked the city of Baghdad, leading to the destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate and the subsequent degradation of this part of the world for centuries. They conquered Song China and established the Yuan dynasty. They dismantled the Khwarazmian Empire and established the Il-Khanate. They also destroyed the Kievan Rus and founded the so-called Golden Horde which ruled Mongol territory in modern-day Russia and Eastern Europe. These are just a few of the empires destroyed by the Mongols.
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