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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 1
The Mongols
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Khanate
Relay
Cultural diffusion
Explain how a relay could connect places within or across a khanate. How might those connections support cultural diffusion without making every community’s experience the same?
Read the situation.
Mongol armies created an enormous connected empire during the thirteenth century through organization, mobility, and destructive conquest. Chinggis Khan unified Mongol groups in 1206. His successors expanded further; Kublai Khan proclaimed the Yuan dynasty in 1271, and the Southern Song fell in 1279. Expansion and political unity did not remain the same across every region or decade.
02 Organize the information.
Four dated signals
Use only these supplied dates: Mongol unification 1206; death of Chinggis Khan 1227; proclamation of Yuan 1271; fall of Southern Song 1279.
Put the events in chronological order.
1227: Chinggis Khan dies.
1271: Kublai Khan proclaims the Yuan dynasty.
1279: Mongol forces defeat the Southern Song.
1206: Mongol groups unite under Chinggis Khan.
Write the letters in order:
→→→
Explain why one step or event belongs where you put it.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 1
What does the evidence show?
The Mongols
03 Follow the evidence.
Correct the gallery label
Draft label: “Mongol rule affected everyone in exactly the same way.”
Select all evidence that challenges that claim.
A workshop gains access to new artistic influences.
A settlement suffers destruction during conquest.
The gallery has a map of the empire’s boundaries.
A court chronicle praises the ruler’s victories without describing conditions among other groups.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
A stronger headline
Your final dispatch must account for both the artistic evidence and the conquest evidence.
Which headline is most defensible?
Connection and coercion both shaped Mongol rule; consequences varied by group and place.
Trade proves the conquests caused no harm.
Destruction proves cultural exchange never happened.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write a museum label explaining one Mongol governing mechanism and two different consequences of expansion. Include a sentence explaining why the fictional route calculation is not historical evidence.