Document A: For some years I continued averse from mentioning this event, deeming it so horrible that I shrank from recording it and ever withdrawing one foot as I advanced the other. To whom, indeed, can it be easy to write the announcement of the death-blow of Islam and the Muslims, or who is he on whom the remembrance thereof can weigh lightly? O would that my mother had not born me or that I had died and become a forgotten thing ere this befell! Yet, withal a number of my friends urged me to set it down in writing, and I hesitated long, but at last came to the conclusion that to omit this matter could serve no useful purpose. I say, therefore, that this thing involves the description of the greatest catastrophe and the most dire calamity (of the like of which days and nights are innocent) which befell all men generally, and the Muslims in particular, so that should one say that the world, since God Almighty created Adam until now, has not been afflicted with the like thereof, he would but speak the truth. For indeed history does not contain anything which approaches or comes near unto it... For even Antichrist will spare such as follow him, though he destroy those who oppose him, but these Tatars (Mongols) spared none, slaying women and men and children, ripping open pregnant women and killing unborn babes. Verily to God do we belong, and unto Him do we return, and there is no strength and no power save in God, the High, the Almighty, in face of this catastrophe, whereof the sparks flew far and wide, and the hurt was universal; and which passed over the lands like clouds driven by the wind.

Document B:

the photo is of an Official government diplomatic passport, yuan dynasty, china. made from Iron with silver inlay, ca. 1279-1368

a) Identify and explain one effect of Mongol control on either China, the Middle East or Russia

b) identify and explain one reason why the author of document A might have the perspective outlined in the passage

c) Identify and explain one reason that the evidence in document B could undermine the interpretation of the Mongols provided in document A