AP History Forge — Study Session

"When Chinggis Khan had finished the enumeration of his victories, he summoned his sons, and said unto them: 'My descendants will wear gold-embroidered garments… forget their own country, and insult the people of Mongolia.'" — The Secret History of the Mongols, c. 1240

The passage above most directly reflects which of the following developments in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries?

A The collapse of the Silk Road trade networks following the plague outbreaks of 1347. B The tension between nomadic traditions and the assimilation of sedentary cultures within the Mongol successor khanates. C The adoption of Islamic law as the unifying legal code of the Yuan dynasty in China. D The eradication of overland trade routes as maritime commerce expanded in the Indian Ocean basin.

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The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World

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