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Chapter 12 Quiz
Contrasting Patterns in Eurasia, 600-1600 CE
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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.
Pandya
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Chola
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Chalukya
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Odda
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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."
Vijayanagar
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Srivijaya
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Kadaram
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Mabappalam
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___________________is the man credited with founding the Muslim state of Delhi, which would later survive under the name of the "Sultanate of Delhi."
Ghengis Khan
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Sultan Raziya
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Mahmud of Ghazna
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Muhammad of Ghur
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In 1398, one of the last great invasions of central Asian nomads under the leadership of ______, descended on northern India and southwest Asia.
Sultan Raziya
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Timur
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Genghis Khan
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Guru Nanak
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Which of the following is not true of Sikhism?
It eventually became a peaceful non-confrontational faith
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It came about as an interchange between Muslim and Hindu religious traditions
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It was founded by guru Nanak
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It was opposed by both Hindus and Muslims
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During the rule of the __________ dynasty, Buddhist influence at the imperial court made China a Buddhist empire.
Qin
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Shang
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Tang
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Xin
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"Neo-Confucianism" was the name given to the new synthesis of official beliefs blending elements of:
Confucianism, Daoism, and Hinduism
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Confucianism, Daoism, and Islam
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Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islam
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Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism
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Tang efforts to control military outposts along the Silk Road brought the empire into conflict with ______________by the early eighth century.
Vietnamese expansion
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Hindu expansion
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Arab expansion
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Mongol expansion
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The most extraordinary example of the contradictory Tang trends towards both greater restrictiveness and wider latitude in personal behavior was the Tang Empress____________.
Ningzong
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Wu Zetian
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Kangxi
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Huizong of Yuan
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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) _______________.
Lady-in-waiting
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Concubine
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Empress dowager
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Heir apparent
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Which export items were in most demand during the Tang dynasty?
Silk and porcelain
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Rice and tea
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Lacquerware and silk
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Tea and silk
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Under the Song Dynasty, a new __________ would guide China up to the twentieth century.
form of Buddhism
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synthesis of Neo-Confucianism
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adherence to Daoism
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sense of Legalism
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Like the Tang, the Song instituted a strong central government based on _______ rather than heredity.
obeisance
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hierarchy
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merit
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nepotism
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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.
Ouyang Xiu
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Su Dongpo
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Sima Guang
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Wang Anshi
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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.
Yesugei Baghatur
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Temujin
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Belgutei
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Timur-i-Lang
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The most momentous invention to emerge from the Song era was:
Calligraphy
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Porcelain
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Gunpowder
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Lacquer ware
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In 1280 Khubilai Khan proclaimed the_________ dynasty.
Yuan
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Ming
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Xia
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Han
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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.
Japan
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India
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China
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Egypt
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The travel accounts of ________ are important testaments to the Mongol Empire's facilitation of long-distance travel.
Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta
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Niccolò de' Conti and Nicolau Coelho
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Ruy González de Clavijo and Benjamin of Tudela
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Vasco da Gama and Bartolomeu Dias
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The Mongols emphasized __________ in their empire.
chaos and disorder
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a peaceful, just society
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weak imperial administration
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elevating merchants and artisans
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What was one of the reasons that China ended its maritime expeditions?
The expense outweighed the benefits.
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It lost many of its large ships in a typhoon.
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A new dynasty opposed to naval expeditions came to power.
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The empire needed its resources to defend against an invasion from Vietnam.
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Hongwu sought to streamline his newly reconstituted bureaucracy by concentrating power and governmental functions around__________________.
foreigners
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religious leaders
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the emperor
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the scholar-gentry
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The ______________was a select group of senior officials who served as an advisory board to the Ming emperor.
Grand Sect
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Grand Tribunal
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Grand Council
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Grand Secretariat
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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.
syphilis
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bubonic plague
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yellow fever
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leprosy
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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.
land armies
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religious crusades
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naval expeditions
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Silk Road missionaries
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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.
scholar-gentry
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military leaders
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religious leaders
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wealthy merchant class
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What was the
baojia
system?
It was a system of tribute that was paid to China by Japan and Korea.
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It was a system of recruitment for the Ming army that was based on household size.
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It was a system of taxation that centered on exports across the Silk Road.
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It was a system of village organization developed during the Song dynasty and utilized by the Ming.
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Many of these technical advances revolved around the development of luxury items, and the most notable among them was the invention of true___________.
glass
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porcelain
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alloys
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glazing mixes
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Timur's invasion and sack of Delhi shown on the map above ended the power of which Muslim dynasty?
The Lodis
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The Mughals
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The Tughluqs
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The Sayyids
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Khubilai Khan, pictured above, invaded southern China and ended what Chinese dynasty?
The Song
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The Ming
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The Sui
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The Tang
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