Ghengis khan and his mongol armies rose to power at the end of the twelfth century, at the moment wgen few opposinf rulers could put up much resistance to them. The vast mongol empire he created stretched from China to Europe, across which the silks routes functioned as efficient lines of communication as well as trade

Ineed advice. i have a lot of friends at school but recently my best friend for some reason didn’t like our friend group. she wanted to switch to a new table during lunch. she said she found a new table where we would be welcomed if i wanted to come. i agreed because i knew i would continue to talk to them outside of lunch. after a month or two, my best friend got mad at our new lunch table group. so she left for a day or two, but i stayed because i actually kinda liked it there, even if it was kinda crazy. then she came back to the table. eventually i started to miss my old friends at my old lunch table. so i went over there for one lunch. then after lunch i sat at my new lunch spot before the bell rang. they all called me a traitor. so now i sit with my old lunch group, which is fine because i missed them, but i also miss my new, now old, lunch table. what should i do? p.s. sorry if you loose your last brain cells trying to understand this.

Reading critically involves reading to criticize reading many texts questioning a text talking about interests

Which word from the stanza can you use as a clue to determine the meaning of the word vales ?