STUDIES
1. Locate these cities: Bokhara; Samarkand; Merv; Herat; Bagdad; Peking; Delhi; Kiev; Moscow; and Adrianople.
2. Who were Baber, Kublai Khan, Othman, Mohammed II, Constantine Palaeologus, and Ivan the Great?
3. Why should the steppes of central and northern Asia have been a nursery of warlike peoples?
4. What parts of Asia were not included in the Mongol Empire at its greatest extent?
5. Trace on the map on page 486 the further expansion of the Mongol Empire after the death of Jenghiz Khan.
6. "Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar." What does this mean?
7. Why did the Mongol conquest of Russia tend to strengthen the sentiment of nationality in the Russian people?
8. How did the tsars come to regard themselves as the successors of the Eastern emperors?
9. Compare the Janizaries with the Christian military-religious orders.
10. How was "the victory of the Crescent secured by the children of the Cross"?
11. Why were the invasions of the Mongols and Ottoman Turks more destructive to civilization than those of the Germans, the Arabs, and the Northmen?
12. Enumerate the more important services of the Roman Empire in the East to civilization.
13. On an outline map indicate the extent of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 A.D.