DBQ Mongols 2013
DBQ: Mongols
Central Question: How did the Mongols accomplish the conquest of such a large territory within such a short period of time?
Core Points are:
Acceptable thesis
Uses all or all but one document Supports thesis with evidence from documents
Understands basic meaning of documents.
Analyzes bias or point of view in at least two or three documents
Analyzes documents by grouping them in one, two or three ways
Identifies one type of appropriate additional document.
Document 1
The Secret History of the Mongols, 13th Century, compiled from Mongol Oral Traditions
After this in the Year of the Sheep Chingis Khan set out to fight the people of Cathay (the Chin Empire in north China). First he took the city of Fu-chou then marching through the Wild Fox Pass he took Hsuan-te-fu. From here he sent out an army under Jebe’s command to take the fortress at Chu-yung Kuan. When Jebe arrived he saw the Chu-yung Kuan was well defended, so he said: “I’ll trick them and make them come out in the open. I’ll pretend to retreat and when they come out I’ll attack them.” So Jebe retreated and the Cathayan army cried: “Let’s go after them!” They poured out of their fortifications until the valleys and mountainsides were full of their soldiers. Jebe retreated to Sondi-i-wu Ridge and there he turned his army around to attack as the enemy rushed towards him in waves. The Cathayan army was beaten and close behind Jebe’s forces Chingis Khan commanding the great Middle Army attacked as well, forcing the Cathayan army to retreat, killing the finest and most courageous soldiers of Cathay, the Jurchin and Khara Khitan fighters, slaughtering them along the side of Chu-yung Kuan so that their bodies lay piled up like rotten logs.
Document 2
The Chronicles of Novgorod, 1016-1417, written by anonymous monks in Novgorod near Russia.
[In 1238] foreigners called Tartars came in countless numbers, like locusts, into the land of the Ryazan, and on first coming
Central Question: How did the Mongols accomplish the conquest of such a large territory within such a short period of time?
Core Points are:
Acceptable thesis
Uses all or all but one document Supports thesis with evidence from documents
Understands basic meaning of documents.
Analyzes bias or point of view in at least two or three documents
Analyzes documents by grouping them in one, two or three ways
Identifies one type of appropriate additional document.
Document 1
The Secret History of the Mongols, 13th Century, compiled from Mongol Oral Traditions
After this in the Year of the Sheep Chingis Khan set out to fight the people of Cathay (the Chin Empire in north China). First he took the city of Fu-chou then marching through the Wild Fox Pass he took Hsuan-te-fu. From here he sent out an army under Jebe’s command to take the fortress at Chu-yung Kuan. When Jebe arrived he saw the Chu-yung Kuan was well defended, so he said: “I’ll trick them and make them come out in the open. I’ll pretend to retreat and when they come out I’ll attack them.” So Jebe retreated and the Cathayan army cried: “Let’s go after them!” They poured out of their fortifications until the valleys and mountainsides were full of their soldiers. Jebe retreated to Sondi-i-wu Ridge and there he turned his army around to attack as the enemy rushed towards him in waves. The Cathayan army was beaten and close behind Jebe’s forces Chingis Khan commanding the great Middle Army attacked as well, forcing the Cathayan army to retreat, killing the finest and most courageous soldiers of Cathay, the Jurchin and Khara Khitan fighters, slaughtering them along the side of Chu-yung Kuan so that their bodies lay piled up like rotten logs.
Document 2
The Chronicles of Novgorod, 1016-1417, written by anonymous monks in Novgorod near Russia.
[In 1238] foreigners called Tartars came in countless numbers, like locusts, into the land of the Ryazan, and on first coming