Question
The Mongols danced on a wooden platform above soldiers of these people and the Rus after the Battle of Kalka River. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these Turkic nomads who wore masked helmets with mustaches and created a confederation with the Kipchaks. Bela IV’s invitation of these people to Hungary justified the Mongol invasion of Europe.
ANSWER: Cumans [accept Polovtsy or Polovtsians]
[10m] During this 1258 event, the Mongols supposedly used books from the House of Wisdom as a bridge over a blackened river and ordered al-Musta’sim to be rolled in a carpet and trampled by horses.
ANSWER: sack of Baghdad [or siege of Baghdad; accept answers indicating the fall of Baghdad to Hulagu Khan in 1258; prompt on Mongol invasion of Abbasid caliphate]
[10e] Many bloody Mongol punishments are detailed in one of these texts called the Yassa. Other texts of this type include a “Salic” one compiled by Clovis and a “civil” one compiled by Napoleon.
ANSWER: law codes [or laws; accept synonyms like legal systems or statutes; accept Salic law or civil law]
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