Volume 1 Chapter 2 Quiz

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. What is the main reason why rulers preferred loyalty over coercion for the collection of grain and taxes?

Loyalty was far less expensive than coercion correct incorrect

Loyalty helped rulers maintain an elite lifestyle correct incorrect

Loyalty allowed rulers to build strong armies correct incorrect

Loyalty was less destructive than coercion correct incorrect

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. Why was kinship alone not sturdy enough to forge dependable bonds of loyalty?

Kinsmen often demanded lavish feasts correct incorrect

Kinsmen often refused to pay taxes correct incorrect

Relations among kinsmen were fraught with rivalries and power struggles correct incorrect

Kinsmen often intermarried, complicating bonds of loyalty correct incorrect

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. When Babur offered himself and his men in loyalty to his rich uncle, he____________.

Dined with his uncle, eating his salt correct incorrect

Participated in a robing ceremony correct incorrect

Swore an oath of loyalty correct incorrect

Bent his knee correct incorrect

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. What was the most important effect of the robing ceremony?

It brought a warrior into the service of a ruler correct incorrect

It strengthened bonds of kinship between families correct incorrect

The suit of clothes intimately connected the body of the recipient to the ruler correct incorrect

It helped forge marriage ties between families correct incorrect

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. Which source provides one of the earliest references to the robing ceremony?

The Quran correct incorrect

The New Testament correct incorrect

The Babur-Nama correct incorrect

The Hebrew Bible correct incorrect

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. Which ancient city offers the earliest evidence of salt as a marker of loyalty?

Ur correct incorrect

Kabul correct incorrect

Samarkand correct incorrect

Fergana correct incorrect

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. The idea of salt as a metaphor for ___________ survived well into the twentieth century.

ties of kinship correct incorrect

honorable behavior correct incorrect

thieves and outlaws correct incorrect

nobility correct incorrect

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. Which ancestor did Babur hope to surpass by invading and holding India?

Genghis Khan correct incorrect

Akbar correct incorrect

Timur correct incorrect

Ali Baba correct incorrect

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. Which articles of dress, spread by European colonization, weakened the robing ceremony across Asia?

Shoes and socks correct incorrect

Pants and jackets correct incorrect

Collared shirts and neckties correct incorrect

Shawls and scarfs correct incorrect

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. In contrast to many modern systems of loyalty today, the blood-robes-salt system of loyalty was_____________.

Nationalist correct incorrect

Communist correct incorrect

Religious correct incorrect

Prenationalist correct incorrect