Chapter 18 Quiz A with Explanations

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. A majority of the inhabitants of the port towns and cities of East Africa were Muslim and spoke

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. What was an important feature of the Indian Ocean trade network before the arrival of the Portuguese in the late fifteenth century?

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. What slowed the transportation of gold and ivory from the southern interior of Africa?

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. What export from the north Swahili coast was important to some regions of Arabia and the Red Sea?

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. The capital of the trading state of Vijayanagara was

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. Other than agriculture, what was a major source of state revenue for the Vijayanagara state in the sixteenth century?

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. In the early sixteenth century, how was imperial organization in Vijayanagara similar to that of the Aztecs and the Incas?

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. What led to the collapse of the Vijayanagara state?

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. Which Mughal ruler promoted a syncretic religion that emphasized the rule's divine solar radiance?

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. How was the reign of Aurangzeb in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries different from his predecessors?

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. Mughal decline began in the eighteenth century during the reign of

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. What group in India occupied the bottom of the social scale?

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. What encouraged greater commercial activity and urban growth in Mughal India at the beginning of the seventeenth century?

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. Following Vasco da Gama's 1498 voyage to India, why did the Portuguese turn to piracy in the Indian Ocean trade network?

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. Which Jesuit missionary worked to convert the disadvantaged of the Indian Ocean region?

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. Which European state displaced the Portuguese from their dominance in the Indian Ocean trade network in the seventeent century?

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. The success of European commerce in the Indian Ocean trade network was associated with the steady supply of

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. The Sultanate of Aceh was centered on the island of

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. During the sixteenth century, Aceh transported what agricultural product to the Mediterranean world?

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. Kamalat Shah was deposed as the ruler of Aceh in 1699 because

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