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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