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plus originally Mongol Empire was not Islamic!

sorry for saying this, Arcky, but the question is really ill-posed and it says about your teacher!

   

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing – what is the educational purpose of posing a deliberate trick question?

Wait a second; are you actually suggesting that the teacher thought the Mongol Empire was synonymous with the Islamic (the Caliphate)?

   

nah...
but I have no clue what could be prodced by a fevered imagination like his...... the sad thing is that he teaches and misleads students!

   

Hell, I agree with you! Thank God we have others who are better. But yeah, no wonder it took me and my friend like 5-7 minutes to figure this damn thing out. Even then, it was just a random guess...

   

No, the idea was to purposely provide inaccurate information and trick us in order to accomplish the following:

#1. See how much we knew about history.

#2. See if we would take what the teacher said at face value.

#3. We're willing to question information given to us.



In other words, everyone failed.

   

Just be happy your teacher hasn't given you a true/false quiz where every question was true. Guess how many people failed that one.

   

I got a multiple choice test last year, 28 questions and the right answer was always a).

that teacher is evil

   

They like to screw with us and alter information so slightly that we think it's true or false, and inevitable we get those questions wrong.

   

See all those hours of watching the history chan. finely paid off.

   

Sorry, you're teacher doesn't know what he's talking about. It's not a trick question, it's an incorrect one. Of his choices, only the Persian, Macedonian or Roman Empires could theoretically be considered ancient.



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The Mongol Empire reigned supreme in the Dark/Middle Ages. The 'Islamic' Empire or Caliphate started earlier than the Mongols, but they controlled the Med basin after the fall of Rome and the ensuing Dark Ages. Their expansion in Europe was checkd in 732 at the Battle of Tours/Poitiers by Charlemagne's grandfather, Charles Martel.

If he re-phrased the question it could work, but otherwise he's wrong. He's lucky I'm not sitting in his class or I'd call him on it.

   

Where were the persians from? Were they considered to be Greek?

   

No. The Persians are considered to be more Arab than anything else. Their empire stretched from the Agean Sea to Baghdad and many points in between.

   

We had an instructor like that in tech school. Four questions in one hour of analog transitor circuits. Pretty easy subject. Two of the 25 passed. I got 44% and did a jig around the class room.

Turns out the test was undoable. We gave it to the other instructor in the subject and he spent three hours trying to finish it. He gave up. One of the circuits was generating power (not possible in reality).





And lily? Not for ANY amount of money would high school be worth it again! LOL

   

I did call a teacher on a point. I wound up with a 25% that term in Academic English. Had to drop back to General English.


Got my Grade 12 Academic English a few years later.

   

I'd love to go back to a couple of classes and tell the teachers just what I thought of their lil head games.

   

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