Chapter 20 Quiz

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. While relations between Muslims and India's other religions were syncretic, in that they co-existed but remained largely separate, the political and social systems created by the Mughals were in many respects a successful example of the _________of practices of conquest and plunder and several centuries of ruling more settled areas.

caste system correct incorrect

synthesis correct incorrect

oligarchy correct incorrect

monarchy correct incorrect

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. In the wake of the collapse of the Mongol Empire, the largest in world history, the Central Asian heartland of the Turkic peoples evolved into a _________, many of whose rulers claimed descent from Genghis Khan.

tribe correct incorrect

city state correct incorrect

chiefdom correct incorrect

patchwork of smaller states correct incorrect

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. By the fourteenth century, ____________ had become the dominant religion among the Central Asian Turkic peoples.

Islam correct incorrect

Hinduism correct incorrect

Buddhism correct incorrect

Sikhism correct incorrect

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. The desire for a new Mongol empire, now allied with Islam, created opportunities for military action to unite and settle the nomadic tribes of Chaghatai, leading to the rise in the fourteenth century of _________, or Tamerlane.

Genghis Khan correct incorrect

Bayazid correct incorrect

Temur Gurgan correct incorrect

Miran Shah correct incorrect

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. For Babur and his successors, their ruling family would always be "The House of Timur," prompting historians to sometimes refer to the line as the Timurids. However, because of their claims to the legacy of Genghis Khan, they would be better known to the world as the _________.

Huns correct incorrect

Mughals correct incorrect

Sheikh correct incorrect

Mangral correct incorrect

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. The House of Timur's new rulers, especially his son Humayun, were now faced with the problem of consolidating, organizing, and administering Babur's vast domain. Unfortunately, Humayun's interests were geared more toward _________ than they were toward responsible leadership.

Literature correct incorrect

Painting correct incorrect

Architecture correct incorrect

Mystical Islam correct incorrect

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. A particular problem for the long term health of Humayun's dynasty was the _________, or the creation of a regular system for previously improvised or ad hoc activities or things, such as law codes to replace local customs.

deinstitutionalization correct incorrect

institute correct incorrect

institutionalization correct incorrect

colonization correct incorrect

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. Because of the difficulties involved in Humayun's own succession to the throne, his death was kept a secret , while the court worked out plans for a _________ for the emperor's son, fourteen-year-old Jalal ud-Din Akbar.

Lord Protector correct incorrect

Regency correct incorrect

Steward correct incorrect

Proxy correct incorrect

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. Under Akbar's leadership, the Mughal armies were able to bring the eastern, southern and western flanks of their lands into their fold and again anchoring Islam in the former areas of its influence, called:

Hindustan correct incorrect

Bihar correct incorrect

Agra correct incorrect

Ajmir correct incorrect

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. In order to defend Hindustan, the Mughals built a series of fortresses throughout their inner domains and along the frontier. Which of the following is not the site of one such fortress?

Allahabad correct incorrect

Lahore correct incorrect

Red Fort in Delhi correct incorrect

Hyderabad correct incorrect

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. Akbar ordered the building of the city of Fatehpur Sikri to give thanks to and honor the memory of _________, a Sufi holy man who had predicted the birth of a male son to Akbar, on the site of the holy man's village of Sikri.

Zainuddin Shirazi correct incorrect

Zar Baksh correct incorrect

Salim Chisti correct incorrect

Bulleh Shah correct incorrect

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. Akbar's Sufi mystical training had increasingly predisposed him toward tolerance and eclecticism, which gradually developed into a personal philosophy he called _________, or " peace with all."

sulh-i kull correct incorrect

Ain-i-Akbari correct incorrect

Dhikr correct incorrect

Sikhism correct incorrect

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. While this new philosophy did not end Akbar's military campaigns, which he saw as ordained by God, it ultimately did lead him to formulating a new religion he called _________, or "divine faith."

Islam correct incorrect

din-i ilahi correct incorrect

Ain-i-Akbari correct incorrect

Muraqaba correct incorrect

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. By borrowing heavily from Sufi mysticism, Persian court protocols, Zoroastrian sun and fire veneration, and Christian-influenced spiritualism, Akbar's divine faith sought to:

Increase the power of the Sunni Islamic clerics and draw followers from other religions correct incorrect

Create a new religious sect that would draw followers from other religions correct incorrect

Make him the Supreme Being of the Empire correct incorrect

Limit the power of Sunni Islamic clerics and draw followers from other religions correct incorrect

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. Akbar´s attempt to create a new divine faith was doomed to failure in part because:

din-i ilahi was perceived to be a religion that appealed to courtiers and nobles only correct incorrect

many followers joined the new divine faith for opportunistic rather than spiritual reasons correct incorrect

many followers embraced a less strict form of Islam instead correct incorrect

it was embraced by Sunni theologians correct incorrect

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. Afghan princes, who chafed under Mughal rule, caused Akbar to move his army to _______ in 1585.

Kandahar correct incorrect

Agra correct incorrect

Lahore correct incorrect

Fatehpur Sikri correct incorrect

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. After 1600, Akbar was faced with a domestic insurrection led by his own son Salim. In the end, however, Salim and Akbar were able to reconcile and Salim ascended the throne as _________.

Khusrau correct incorrect

Salim correct incorrect

Aurangzeb correct incorrect

Jahangir correct incorrect

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. The Mughals' expansion into Bengal foreshadowed a clash with a very different kind of enemy, the Shan people of Southeast Asia called the _________.

Ahoms correct incorrect

Mong Yang correct incorrect

Hsenwi correct incorrect

Mong Kawng correct incorrect

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. After Jahangir's death in 1627, his son Khurram inherited the throne and reigned as Shah Jahan. His rule coincided with perhaps the high point of Mughal cultural power and prestige, as reflected in its iconic monument, the _________.

The Tomb of Itmad-Ud-Daula correct incorrect

Salim Chisti correct incorrect

Taj Mahal correct incorrect

Bulleh Shah correct incorrect

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. Shah Jahan did away with the _________of former Mughal rulers and established a more legalistic and exclusively pro-Muslim environment more aligned with Sunni theology, a trend which would reach its pinnacle of power under the reign of Shah Jahan's own son, Aurangzeb.

polytheistic views correct incorrect

monotheistic views correct incorrect

dualism views correct incorrect

religious tolerance correct incorrect

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. Aurangzeb's long rule renewed the Mughal trend of expanding into the Northeastern areas controlled by the Ahoms, whom he ultimately succeeded in converting into _________after a military standstill.

Mughal chiefs correct incorrect

Mughal clients correct incorrect

Mughal representatives correct incorrect

Mughals citizens correct incorrect

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. Under Aurangzeb, there were two major watershed trends: the start of an ongoing decades-long war with the Marathas, a federation of fiercely independent Central Indian clans; and his controversial bid for a more robust and legalistically effective _________of Mughal India.

"unification" correct incorrect

"reconstruction" correct incorrect

"Islamification" correct incorrect

"transformation" correct incorrect

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. These discriminatory religious policies also created great distrust and many difficulties in dealing with self-governing, non-Muslim groups within the empire, most notably among the _________.

Ahoms correct incorrect

Sheikh correct incorrect

Hsenwi correct incorrect

Sikhs correct incorrect

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. The Marathas were _________ who resisted Aurangzeb's expansion into central India.

Persians correct incorrect

Hindus correct incorrect

Buddhists correct incorrect

Sikhs correct incorrect

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. The first European merchant ships to reach India in 1498 belonged to _________.

England correct incorrect

Portugal correct incorrect

Spain correct incorrect

Italy correct incorrect

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. During the seventeenth century, all but one of the following European nations largely supplanted Portuguese influence in the region:

France correct incorrect

Britain correct incorrect

Italy correct incorrect

The Netherlands correct incorrect

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. Under Mughal rule, an elaborate, graded system of official ranks was created in which the recipients, called _________, were awarded grants of land along with the revenues those working the land generated.

mansabdars correct incorrect

governors correct incorrect

viceroys correct incorrect

pashas correct incorrect

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. The basic administrative unit of the Mughals was the _________, a unit comprising an area usually containing a town and from a dozen to about a hundred villages.

league correct incorrect

meter correct incorrect

acre correct incorrect

pargana correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is not a long-term consequence of the creation of a world trading system by the European maritime powers:

Indian commodities were now being shipped globally correct incorrect

the Dutch and the British saw a sharp decline in their supremacy in India correct incorrect

growth of the Indian textile trade correct incorrect

growth of American silver and food and cash crop imports into India correct incorrect

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. As was the case in China, the "inner" world of the household and the "outer" world of business, politics and warfare were clearly defined by_______.

age correct incorrect

gender correct incorrect

class correct incorrect

caste correct incorrect

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. Muslim empires, like the Ottomans and Mughals, that utilized cannons and small arms are known as _____________ empires.

gunpowder correct incorrect

militaristic correct incorrect

hegemonic correct incorrect

firearms correct incorrect

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. A century before Akbar, Indian mathematicians had pushed their calculations of the value of pi to within nine decimal places, and expanded their facility with trigonometry to the point that some of the fundamental concepts of infinite series and _________had been worked out.

algebra correct incorrect

geometry correct incorrect

calculus correct incorrect

scientific notation correct incorrect

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. While the great majority of Indian Muslims remained adherents of the Islam, there was also an influential presence in India.

Shiite correct incorrect

Sufi correct incorrect

Ashariyyah correct incorrect

Zaidi correct incorrect

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. The Mughals gave India one of its most prolific eras in terms of profusion and synthesis of literary genres, with _________remaining the chief languages of literature.

Hindi and Persian correct incorrect

Arabic and Persian correct incorrect

Oriya and Maithili correct incorrect

Kashmiri and Arabic correct incorrect

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. In the realm of the visual arts, and just like with the Safavid Persians and the Ottomans, one of the more interesting aspects of Islam as practiced by the Mughals is that, like the prohibitions regarding wine and other intoxicants, the injunctions against depicting the human form in art were often largely ignored in the _________.

public works correct incorrect

literature correct incorrect

museums correct incorrect

private chambers of the royal court correct incorrect

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. The Persian tradition of miniature painting flourished in Mughal India, as did larger works on a variety of surfaces, with the _________painting technique being popular under Akbar's patronage.

ragmalas correct incorrect

padma correct incorrect

gouache correct incorrect

ragas correct incorrect

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. Great mosque projects also represent highlights of Mughal artistic sophistication and monumental scope. Among them are the Friday Delhi Mosque in Shahjahanabad and Aurangzeb's huge _________.

Badshahi Mosque in Lahore correct incorrect

Taj Mahal correct incorrect

Salim Chisti correct incorrect

Bulleh Shah correct incorrect

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Above is the tomb of the Mughal ruler Humayun. What did Humayun have to do in order to get Persian support for his reconquest of India?

He had to marry the daughter of Shah Tahmasp correct incorrect

He had to pay the Shah a large amount of gold correct incorrect

He had to agree to help Shah Tahmasp against the Ottomans correct incorrect

He converted to Shia Islam correct incorrect

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Akbar was known to host religious debates as pictured above. What did Akbar do as a result of his interest in religion?

He and his family converted to Christianity under the influence of Jesuit missionaries correct incorrect

He built the largest religious library in Asia at Fatehpur Sikri correct incorrect

He developed his own faith called din-i ilahi (divine faith) correct incorrect

He determined that all in his empire should worship him as a god correct incorrect

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According to the map, which area had the greatest Spanish influence?

The Philippine Islands correct incorrect

Singapore correct incorrect

Sumatra correct incorrect

Taiwan correct incorrect