Question

Which of the following was an important long-term effect of the Mongol invasions in Eurasia?

The dissolution of the Chinese state

The emergence of the Russian identity

The destruction of trading routes in Eurasia

The creation of a hybrid Mongol-Persian culture

Refer to the passage.

"They [the Mongols] came down upon the city and killed all they could, men, women and children, the old, the middle-aged, and the young. Many of the people went into wells, latrines, and sewers and hid there for many days without emerging. Most of the people gathered in the caravanserais [inns] and locked themselves in. The Tatars [Mongols] opened the gates by either breaking or burning them. When they entered, the people in them fled upstairs and the Tatars killed them on the roofs until blood poured from the gutters into the street; ‘We belong to God and to God we return’ [Qur'an, ii, 156]. The same happened in the mosques and cathedral mosques and dervish convents. . . . And Baghdad, which had been the most civilised of all cities, became a ruin with only a few inhabitants, and they were in fear and hunger and wretchedness and insignificance.”

Answer 1

Option: The destruction of trading routes in Eurasia.

Explanation:

Mongol's military conquest led the empire to widespread. They are known as Nomadic horse people from the eastern steppe lands of Asia. The Mongols briefly ruled most of Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The Mongol conquest in Eurasia led to the decline of established empires along with killing people. Even though the Mongol tried to assimilate the Persian culture but could not survive as the Mongol regime in Persia declined in the 1330s. Trade disrupt in the East led to the Europeans to take the sea route to reach Asia for trade.