Chapter 12 Quiz

Contrasting Patterns in Eurasia, 600-1600 CE
. The political center of the Indian subcontinent shifted south and, by the latter part of the ninth century, the________ state had conquered much of southern India and invaded Sri Lanka.

. After several centuries of southward expansion by Muslim sultanates in north and central India, a new Hindu state emerged in 1336 with the founding of the city of____________ or "City of Victory."

. ___________________is the man credited with founding the Muslim state of Delhi, which would later survive under the name of the "Sultanate of Delhi."

. In 1398, one of the last great invasions of central Asian nomads under the leadership of ______, descended on northern India and southwest Asia.

. Which of the following is not true of Sikhism?

. During the rule of the __________ dynasty, Buddhist influence at the imperial court made China a Buddhist empire.

. "Neo-Confucianism" was the name given to the new synthesis of official beliefs blending elements of:

. Tang efforts to control military outposts along the Silk Road brought the empire into conflict with ______________by the early eighth century.

. The most extraordinary example of the contradictory Tang trends towards both greater restrictiveness and wider latitude in personal behavior was the Tang Empress____________.

. The widow of a ruler in a monarchical or imperial system in which succession is normally through the male line is referred to as a(n) _______________.

. Which export items were in most demand during the Tang dynasty?

. Under the Song Dynasty, a new __________ would guide China up to the twentieth century.

. Like the Tang, the Song instituted a strong central government based on _______ rather than heredity.

. The need for bureaucratic and socioeconomic reform spurred the Song official ________________ to propose a series of initiatives aimed at increasing state control over the economy and reducing the power of local interests.

. The unification of various Mongol groups under________, also known as Genghis Khan, led a steady invasion on China which, under his grandson Khubilai Khan, would ultimately bring an end to the Song Dynasty.

. The most momentous invention to emerge from the Song era was:

. In 1280 Khubilai Khan proclaimed the_________ dynasty.

. The Yuan dynasty pulled ______ into an empire spanning all of Eurasia from Korea to the interior of Poland, and probing as far as Hungary, Java, and Japan.

. The travel accounts of ________ are important testaments to the Mongol Empire's facilitation of long-distance travel.

. The Mongols emphasized __________ in their empire.

. What was one of the reasons that China ended its maritime expeditions?

. Hongwu sought to streamline his newly reconstituted bureaucracy by concentrating power and governmental functions around__________________.

. The ______________was a select group of senior officials who served as an advisory board to the Ming emperor.

. While China fortified its borders and reinstated political systems that had been dismantled by the Mongols, it also had to contend with a sharp drop in population due to warfare and the effects of ______________that ravaged the country in the 1340s.

. Ming Emperor Yongle, having inherited a country well on its way to economic recovery, took advantage of this increase in prosperity to launch China's first and last great ___________________under the command of his childhood friend and imperial eunuch, Zheng He, from 1405 to 1433.

. While China boasted some of the world's largest cities, more than 85 percent of the country remained rural from the period from the Song to the Ming, with the __________________at the top of the local structure of power and influence.

. What was the baojia system?

. Many of these technical advances revolved around the development of luxury items, and the most notable among them was the invention of true___________.

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A map of India traces the areas of the Sultanate of Delhi and the areas in their power. The Sultanate of Delhi controlled the northern part of present-day India, with Punjab in the west and Bengal in the east. The major cities in the region were Ghazna, Lahore, Delhi, Agra, and Benares. The areas subject to the Sultanate influence in 1335 were central and southern India. The major cities in the area were Goa, Mangalore, and Calicut along the western coast and Vijayanagar in south-central India. The Hindu areas that were not under the Muslim control were western Gujarat in the west, a small area south of Bengal in the east, and the southern tip of the Peninsula. Timur's invasion route during the sack of Delhi between 1398 and 1399 was from Kabul in Afghanistan to Delhi and back.


Timur's invasion and sack of Delhi shown on the map above ended the power of which Muslim dynasty?

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A painting depicts Emperor Khubilai Khan.


Khubilai Khan, pictured above, invaded southern China and ended what Chinese dynasty?

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