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List of Benchmarks for World History 
 Standard 21.Understands the rise of the Mongol Empire and its consequences for Eurasian peoples from 1200 to 1350
  
Topics1. Mongol empire; 2. Empires and imperialism; 3. Rise and decline of societies and civilizations; 4. Role of individuals in history; 5. Nomadic peoples
   Level IV (Grade 9-12)
  Benchmark 2.Understands factors that contributed to the division and eventual decline of the Mongol Empire after the death of Chinggis Kahn (e.g., disputes over succession, the absence of a bureaucracy, conflicts between nomadic traditions and the ideas of conquered urban cultures)
   Vocabulary terms
A.  division of the Mongol Empire
B.  decline of the Mongol Empire
  Knowledge/skill statements
  1. Understands factors that contributed to the division of the Mongol Empire after the death of Chinggis Kahn   
  2. Understands factors that contributed to the eventual decline of the Mongol Empire after the death of Chinggis Kahn   
  3. Understands disputes over succession to Chinggis Kahn in the Mongol empire   
  4. Understands the role of the absence of a bureaucracy in the eventual decline of the Mongol empire   
  5. Understands conflicts between nomadic traditions and the ideas of conquered urban cultures and the role of these conflicts in the decline of the Mongol empire   


Citation Log: BD(BE,169;​C;​WE,147;​LI,237)
Citation reference
BD = benchmark, declarative
BP = benchmark, procedural
BC = benchmark, contextual

1st letter/number of each code in parentheses:
B   NCHS: Basic Edition
L   Lessons from History
W   NCHS: World History, expanded edition

2nd letter code :
E = Explicitly stated in document
I = Implicit in document

Number:
Page number of the cited document