Command of Evidence: Textual

SAT Reading and Writing· difficulty 3/5

A historian claims that the Mongol Empire facilitated the transmission of technologies, ideas, and diseases across Eurasia at an unprecedented scale, far exceeding earlier exchanges.

Which finding, if true, would most strongly support the historian's claim?

  • A

    Some Mongol leaders sponsored religious tolerance.

  • B

    Mongol rulers were skilled in cavalry warfare.

  • C

    Records show that printing techniques, gunpowder formulations, and astronomical instruments spread across Eurasia within decades during Mongol rule, after centuries of slow movement.

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  • D

    The Mongols controlled large territories on multiple continents.

Explanation

A documents the speed and scope of cultural-technological transmission specifically during Mongol rule. B, C, and D are background.

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