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title: The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia — how Mova does on the tests · Geography
description: Lesson 35 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 11 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia

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**Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 6 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 35 of the geography course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/).

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### Test 1 · right ✓ {#t1}

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lol my cousin says the Great Wall is the only thing you can see from space. true?

- **1.** Yes, but only from the Moon — no support
- **2.** No, because it was knocked down — no support
- **3.** No, it's too narrow to see with the naked eye — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **4.** Yes, astronauts see it every day from their windows — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 14: «The Great Wall cannot be seen with the naked eye from space, because although it is very long it is narrow.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «wall» (+4); the same property (+3); its «because» matches the remembered cause (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/t1/)

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### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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You start EU5 in 1337 and look for the Mughals in India. Why can't you find them?

- **1.** They lived in Persia then — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** They had already fallen by 1337 — no support
- **3.** They were a Chinese dynasty — no support
- **4.** They were founded only in 1526 — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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A friend says the Taj Mahal is a palace where the emperor lived. What is wrong?

- **1.** Nothing, it was Akbar's bedroom and throne room — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It is a tomb Shah Jahan built for his wife — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It is a Ming fort — no support
- **4.** It is a church built by the British — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/t3/)

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### Test 4 · right ✓ {#t4}

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If you visited Beijing in 1500, who would be living in the Forbidden City?

- **1.** Nobody, it was built in 1912 — score 4
- **2.** The Ming emperor — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **3.** The Qing emperor — score 9
- **4.** The Mughal emperor — score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 24, line 4: «For most of history nearly everyone lived on the land and a city of 100,000 was huge. Since about 2007 more than half of all people have lived in towns and cit…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+5); the same place «towns» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/t4/)

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### Test 5 · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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A Portuguese ship sails into Nagasaki in 1700. What is likely to happen?

- **1.** Nothing, Japan had no rules — no support
- **2.** It is turned away, since only Dutch and Chinese may trade — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It is welcomed as the only foreign trader allowed in all of Japan — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **4.** It is given the city — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 35, line 17: «From the 1630s Japan's Tokugawa rulers strictly limited contact with foreigners, allowing only Dutch and Chinese traders at Nagasaki, until the 1850s.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «allow» (+1); the same thing acted on «dutch traders» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/t5/)

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### Test 6 · right ✓ {#t6}

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Which happened first?

- **1.** The Ming took power from the Yuan — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The Taj Mahal was finished — no support
- **3.** The Mughal Empire was founded — no support
- **4.** The Qing took Beijing — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/t6/)

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### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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bruh why was India so rich back then

- **1.** It had nearly all the world's gold mines — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It sold oil to Europe — no support
- **3.** Trade, farming and famous cotton cloth — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It got loads of money from Britain — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/t7/)

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### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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A traveller in 1500 visits a huge Hindu capital near Hampi in south India. Whose capital is it?

- **1.** The Mughals' — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **2.** The Delhi Sultanate's — score 10
- **3.** Vijayanagara's — **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **4.** The Safavids' — score 10

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**Why:** It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 1 with score 10, tied with another option at 10 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 12, line 10: «Saudi Arabia, with its capital Riyadh, contains Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities of Islam, and it is the largest country in the world with no river tha…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «capital» (+4); the same thing acted on «largest country» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 3, scored 10. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Why did the Safavids and the Ottomans often fight?

- **1.** They fought over the Great Wall — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** They were rival neighbours, and the Safavids were Shia, the Ottomans Sunni — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Both wanted to rule Japan — no support
- **4.** The Safavids wanted to take the Taj Mahal from the Mughals — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/t9/)

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### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10}

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My brother says the Qing were Chinese from the south. Right?

- **1.** No, they were Manchus from the north-east — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yes, they were Ming princes — no support
- **3.** No, they were Mongols from Persia — no support
- **4.** Yes, they came from the far south, near Hong Kong — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/t10/)

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### Test 11 · right ✓ {#t11}

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When did China's last imperial dynasty fall?

- **1.** 1912 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** 1368 — no support
- **3.** 1644 — no support
- **4.** 1850 — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the dynasty which exercised sovereignty over China in 1337.

- **1.** The Qing dynasty — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Ming dynasty — no support
- **3.** The Mughal dynasty — no support
- **4.** The Mongol Yuan dynasty — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Ascertain the circumstances under which the Mughal Empire was established.

- **1.** The Safavids founded it in 1501 — score 6
- **2.** Shah Jahan purchased it from the Kingdom of Portugal in 1632 — score 4
- **3.** Babur defeated the Sultan of Delhi at Panipat in 1526 — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 10
- **4.** Akbar inherited it from the Ming in 1556 — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 35, line 8: «Babur, a descendant of Timur and of Genghis Khan, founded the Mughal Empire by defeating the Delhi Sultan at Panipat in 1526.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «defeat» (+2); the same doer «babur» (+2); the same thing acted on «delhi sultan» (+2); the same place «panipat» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the visibility of the Great Wall from space?

- **1.** It is the sole artificial structure visible from the surface of the Moon — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It is visible solely during the hours of darkness — no support
- **3.** It is plainly visible from any orbit — no support
- **4.** It is not discernible to the naked eye on account of its narrowness — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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State the policy pursued by the Tokugawa rulers of Japan from the 1630s with regard to foreign persons.

- **1.** Contact was strictly limited, with only Dutch and Chinese traders admitted at Nagasaki — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Japan was ceded to the Dutch East India Company — no support
- **3.** Only Portuguese traders were permitted to remain — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** All foreign merchants were welcomed without restriction — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 35, line 5: «Japan chose another path and from the 1630s shut its doors to most foreigners, letting only Dutch and Chinese traders in at Nagasaki.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «let» (+2); the same thing acted on «dutch traders» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/e4/)

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