World History · Unit 2 · Paper 3

Networks of Exchange unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 32 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 2, Paper 3” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.

Suggested time 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted

Pax Mongolica

Marco Polo and cross-cultural accounts

Forced relocation of artisans

Effects of exchange on the environment

Mongol Empire

Timbuktu

Yam system

Camel saddle

Networks are not selective

Maritime technology transfer

Bills of exchange

Sugarcane and the plantation model

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Dhow

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Plague and scapegoating

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Monsoon winds

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Black Death

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

Short-Answer Question. Answer (a), (b), and (c).

Identify and briefly describe ONE way Mongol rule between 1200 and 1400 promoted exchange across Eurasia.

Briefly explain ONE way Mongol conquest disrupted existing societies or networks in the same period.

Briefly explain ONE reason the Mongol Empire fragmented by the mid-fourteenth century.