University:
Eastern Kentucky University
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HIS 100 | World Topics to 1500
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2021
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374

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2
Author:

Alma Stephenson

KEY Mankind: The Story  of All of Us Mongols Episode 5: “Plague” 00:00 – 11:52 1. What     advantages did horses give to the Mongols? (Name at least two) cover up to 300 miles in a day could scare and bully humans on foot shoot at full gallop they would travel so fast that they would get there before news of their approach 2. How did climate change force the Mongols south?  warming planet damaged pastureland, making the Mongols move towards China 7:43 – 8:16 – Description of how many women preferred suicide to being raped by the Mongols Fairly gory moment at 9:40 – 9:45 (guy slices into another guy’s neck – rather graphic, with blood spewing out) 3. How were the horse‐riding Mongols able to break through the walls of the city?  they forced Chinese prisoners of war to build battering rams 4. The Mongols created the largest empire in earth’s history. To do so, they had to be good communicators. Describe their communication system.  horseback  every 30 miles is a relay post with 400 horses  government messengers with an official medallion can claim a new horse and food The Plague 12:28 – 34:39 5. Bubonic plague is named after buboes. What is a bubo?  a giant, black, puss‐filled sore 6. How did the rats, and therefore the plague, spread between areas?  it spread along the trade routes; rats hid in the cargo people transported 7. How did Jani Beg help spread the plague into the city of Caffa?  He launched the bodies of his dead soldiers into the city 8. Biological weapons have been outlawed in 165 countries. Why do you think this is the case?  The video says that it is because they are so deadly, but they are also especially terrifying and difficult to control once unleashed. There is no way to know whether an innocent person, a friendly soldier, or an enemy soldier will die from it. 9. What treatments did doctors attempt?  mostly bloodletting (leaches, cutting, etc.) 10. The Pope couldn’t stop the plague. Who did the people begin to blame and what did they do to the ones they blamed?  the Jews  attacked them; burned over 1,000 in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre 11. The plague killed over 50 million people in 15 years – but all in the Old World. Why were the Americas safe from the plague?  The Atlantic Ocean shielded them from it. Pachacuti of the Incas 34:39 – 44:09 12. How did the Incans grow crops on the high mountain slopes?  terracing 13. Uscovilca led the Chancas into battle, even though he was dead. What does this reveal about their attitudes towards death?  Possible answers: They believed in an afterlife. They believed kings were stronger than death or had mystical powers. They believed the dead could have an impact on living people. 14. Pachacuti felt he was stronger than Uscovilca. Why?  Because he believed he was the son of Inti, the Sun God or because Inti had promised Pachacuti success in a vision. 15. How did the Inca link their territories together?  a series of trails/roads (25,000 miles worth)