Ilkhanate - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

The rapidity of this state’s collapse led historian Daniel Morgan to contentiously describe it as “fall without decline.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Give this name of the Mongol state founded by Hulagu Khan, whose fall splintered Iran and the surrounding regions among Persianate successor states including the Chupanids and Jalayirids.

ANSWER: Ilkhanate

[10h] Il-khan Gaykhatu disastrously attempted to wipe out state debts by adopting this technology. Kublai Khan more successfully adopted this technology, first developed under the Sòng dynasty in the form of jiāozǐ (“j’YOW tsuh”).

ANSWER: paper money [or paper currency; prompt on money]

[10e] One of the last rulers of the Ilkhanate, Öljeitü, furthered civil unrest through his repeated conversions from Christianity to Buddhism and eventually to this sect of Islam predominant in Iran today.

ANSWER: Shi’a Islam [or Shiite; or Shi’i; or Shi’ism; accept Twelver Shi’ism or Imamiyyah]

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Summary


Florida	Main	Y	6	28.33	100%	83%	100%
North	Main	Y	7	20.00	86%	43%	71%
Overflow	Main	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	7	25.71	100%	100%	57%
Southeast	Main	Y	9	18.89	89%	33%	67%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	4	27.50	100%	100%	75%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	9	22.22	78%	89%	56%

Data


Toronto A	Toronto B	10	10	10	30
McGill A	Guelph A	10	10	10	30
Queen's A	McMaster C	10	10	10	30
Ottawa	Toronto D	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Toronto H	10	10	10	30
Toronto J	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	10	30
Penn A	George Mason A	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Georgetown B	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Notre Dame E	10	10	10	30
Georgetown A	Penn B	10	10	10	30
George Mason B	VCU A	0	0	0	0
Catholic University	George Washington A	10	10	10	30
Missouri A	SIUE	0	0	10	10
WashU B	Truman State	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame D	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame A	Chicago D	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	UIC	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Kentucky	Michigan D	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Michigan C	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
Brown C	Brandeis Clemenceau	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Wilson	Brandeis Orlando	0	0	0	0
Dartmouth	Cornell-UG	0	10	10	20
Brown A	Harvard	10	10	10	30
Amherst A	MIT A	0	10	10	20
Tufts A	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
Yale A	Williams	10	10	10	30
Yale B	BC A	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	Alberta B	10	10	10	30
Arizona State A	Texas A	10	10	10	30
McGill D	Texas B	10	0	10	20
UTD A	Iowa	10	10	10	30
Brown B	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Bruin A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Vanderbilt B	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
City St George's A	Sheffield B	10	10	0	20
Durham B	Imperial C	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Edinburgh B	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	Birmingham A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Lancaster A	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Manchester A	10	10	10	30
Southampton B	Cambridge D	10	0	10	20
Warwick A	Sheffield A	10	0	10	20
Warwick B	Bristol A	10	0	10	20