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Document 2: The Mongol Empire
What route connected the Mongol Empire to Europe?
What was the major purpose of this route?
The Silk Road; it was the major trade route between Asia and Europe.
Document 3: The Great Khan’s Wealth
Let me tell you further that several times a year a [command] goes
forth through the towns that all those who have gems and pearls
and gold and silver must bring them to the Great Khan’s mint. This
they do, and in such abundance that it is past all reckoning; and
they are all paid in paper money. By this means the Great Khan
acquires all the gold and silver and pearls and precious stones of all
his territories.
—Marco Polo,The Travels of Marco Polo(c. 1300)
How did Marco Polo’s descriptions of his travels
encourage European interest in East Asia?
Europeans were attracted by his descriptions of the great wealth.
Part 2:Essay
Using information from the documents, your answers to the
questions in Part 1, and your knowledge of world history, write
an essay discussing how the Mongols conquered Central and East
Asia and what effects their rule had on Europeans.
Carefully read the essay
question. Then write an
outline for your essay.
Write your essay. Be sure
that it has an introductory
paragraph that introduces
your argument, main body
paragraphs that explain it,
and a concluding
paragraph that restates
your position. In your
essay, include quotations
or details from specific
documents to support
your ideas. Add other
supporting facts or details
that you know from your
study of world history.
Sample Response The best
essays will link the Mongols’
tactics, fierce will, and strong
military organization to their
successful conquest of vast
areas in Central and East Asia
(Documents 1 and 2). They
will also note that rule over
these vast lands brought a
period of peace and united
regions that had before then
been separate. Essays should
point out that this peace
revived trade along the Silk
Road (Document 2) and
brought new inventions and
ideas to Europe. Further,
accounts of the immense
wealth in Mongol lands
(Document 3) spurred
Europeans’ interest in
tapping into that wealth.
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