The Mongols Built a Vast Empire Stretching from Europe to China

Chapter 7 Lesson 3 Big Ideas: • The Mongols built a vast empire stretching from Europe to China. • The Mongols kept some features of the Chinese form of government but did not let Chinese officials have important jobs. • The Mongols encouraged and increased trade and foreign contacts. 1. Who is Genghis Khan and what did he do? 2. How did nomads have a military advantage over settled people? 3. Who was Ogadai and what did he do? 4. Who was Kublai Khan and what did he do? 5. Big Idea Review Question: Describe how the Mongols created and expanded their empire. 6. What did the Mongols not change about the Chinese government? 7. Big Idea Review Question: Explain how the Mongols changed Chinese government. 8. How did the Mongols maintain control of China? 9. What is Mongol Ascendancy? 10. Big Idea Review Question: List ways the Mongols expanded trade. 11. Who was Marco Polo and what did he do? 12. Big Idea Review Question: List ways the Mongols expanded foreign contacts.

Chapter 7 Lesson 3 Big Ideas: • The Mongols built a vast empire stretching from Europe to China. • The Mongols kept some features of the Chinese form of government but did not let Chinese officials have important jobs. • The Mongols encouraged and increased trade and foreign contacts. 1. Who is Genghis Khan and what did he do? 2. How did nomads have a military advantage over settled people? 3. Who was Ogadai and what did he do? 4. Who was Kublai Khan and what did he do? 5. Big Idea Review Question: Describe how the Mongols created and expanded their empire. 6. What did the Mongols not change about the Chinese government? 7. Big Idea Review Question: Explain how the Mongols changed Chinese government. 8. How did the Mongols maintain control of China?

Troy Martinez – TOA/Lugonia 9. What is Mongol Ascendancy? 10. Big Idea Review Question: List ways the Mongols expanded trade. 11. Who was Marco Polo and what did he do? 12. Big Idea Review Question: List ways the Mongols expanded foreign contacts. Chapter 7 Lesson 3 Big Ideas: • The Mongols built a vast empire stretching from Europe to China. • The Mongols kept some features of the Chinese form of government but did not let Chinese officials have important jobs. • The Mongols encouraged and increased trade and foreign contacts. 1. Who is Genghis Khan and what did he do? • Around 1206, he ______all the other Mongol clan leaders for control and ______all the tribes. • He organized the clans into a ______. • He conquered ______and ______China. 2. How did nomads have a military advantage over settled people? • Settle people tried to defend their ______, ______and ______while nomads moved quickly from place to place, looked for ______, ______and moved on. 3. Who was Ogadai and what did he do? • He was ______who took power in 1227. • He extended the Mongol empire as far as west into ______and ______. • He divided the empire into four parts called ______. • A different ______of Genghis Khan ruled each ______. 4. Who was Kublai Khan and what did he do? • He Genghis Khan’s ______. • He became ______in the Chinese part of the Mongol Empire in 1260. • By 1279, he defeated the ______in southern China. • He was the first person to rule all of China in ______years. • He was the ______to rule. • Kublai Khan ruled for ______years. 5. Big Idea Review Question: Describe how the Mongols created and expanded their empire. • First, they ______the group under Genghis Khan. • Then, they began ______other areas. • Once they conquered other areas they made their empire easier to control by dividing rule of the empire among ______. 6. What did the Mongols not change about the Chinese government? • Kublai Khan built his capital, ______, in the ______style. • He declared himself ______. • Kublai Khan founded his own dynasty the ______. • He used Confucian approaches to government and Confucian scholars ______. • He began public works projects like restoring and extending the ______and built ______. 7. Big Idea Review Question: Explain how the Mongols changed Chinese government. • They ended the ______and began appointing ______as government officials. • Chinese officials were only given ______jobs with no power. 8. How did the Mongols maintain control of China? • They used familiar Chinese ______. • They gave the most important government positions to ______or ______. 9. What is Mongol Ascendancy? (Create a v-box.) 10. Big Idea Review Question: List ways the Mongols expanded trade. • The Mongols encouraged trade by making trade routes safer by sometimes ______overland trade routes because of ______or ______. • ______moved along the Silk Roads stretching from China to the ______. • They encouraged sea trade with foreigner lands so sea trade increased at the ports of ______and ______. • The Mongols restored and extended the ______and built ______so travel and trade was easier. 11. Who was Marco Polo and what did he do? • Marco Polo was a ______from Venice, Italy who traveled the ______to China with his father and ______. • He stayed in China for ______where he became ______to Kublai Khan.

Troy Martinez – TOA/Lugonia • He wrote a book ______that described his travels and experiences in ______. Many Europeans ______Marco Polo was telling the truth. 12. Big Idea Review Question: List ways the Mongols expanded foreign contacts. • Foreign traders visited China from ______, ______and India. • ______and missionaries also came to visit China. • They improved and protected the ______. • They encouraged sea trade with ______.

Troy Martinez – TOA/Lugonia