Deck 13: South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Afro-Eurasian Connections, 600-1500

Question 1

How did most Southeast Asians make a living during the Intermediate Period?

A) As farmers and fishermen
B) As poets and artists
C) As priests and government workers

Answer 1

As farmers and fishermen

Question 2

How did most Southeast Asians make a living during the Intermediate Period?

A) As farmers and fishermen
B) As poets and artists
C) As priests and government workers

Answer 2

As farmers and fishermen

Question 3

Which of the following is true of women in Khmer society?

A) They possessed no legal rights or privileges yet were revered as goddesses.
B) They enjoyed all the rights and privileges of their male counterparts.
C) They enjoyed more economic and social rights and privileges than neighboring societies.

Answer 3

They enjoyed more economic and social rights and privileges than neighboring societies.

Question 4

Which of the following impacted the society and culture of Siam most?

A) Theravada Buddhism
B) Confucianism
C) Islam

Question 5

Which of the following statements regarding the reach of royal power in most Southeast Asian states is accurate?

A) The greater the distance from the capital the lesser the royal influence.
B) The closer the distance to the capital the lesser the royal influence.
C) Royal influence proved constant despite the distance from a state's capital.

Question 6

Which of the following cities located in present-day Myanmar astounded visitors with its approximately 10,000 Buddhist and Hindu temples and shrines?

A) Tibet
B) Pagan
C) Delhi

Question 7

Which of the following best describes the historical significance of Angkor Wat?

A) It served as the first free healthcare clinic.
B) It is the premodern world's largest religious complex.
C) It functioned as the epicenter of Cambodian commerce for centuries.

Question 8

Southeast Asians emerged as among the few peoples to resist conquest by which group?

A) Turkic forces
B) The Mongols
C) Javanese warriors

Question 9

Which of the following statements regarding Hindus' conversion to Islam in India is most accurate?

A) Muslim rulers forbid the conversion of Hindus to Islam thereby ensuring their second-class status.
B) Many Hindus embraced Islam as means of improving their personal fortunes or statuses.
C) About 90 percent of Hindus are converted to Islam to secure all the rights and privileges of their Muslim countrymen.

Question 10

What is the historical significance of the ruler Raziya?

A) She ended up being the last Buddhist ruler in Indian history.
B) She served as the first in a long line of female Hindu rulers in Indian history.
C) She became the only female Muslim ruler in Indian history.

Question 11

Broadly speaking, what attitude did Muslim invaders take toward Hinduism and Buddhism in Central Asia?

A) Indifference
B) Intolerance
C) Tolerance

Question 12

What impact did Tamerlane's sacking of Delhi have on Indian unity?

A) Tamerlane's actions strengthened Indian unity after years of fragmentation.
B) Tamerlane's actions weakened Indian unity resulting in dozens of Muslim and Hindu states.
C) Tamerlane's actions did not impact Indian unity.

Question 13

What is one reason that Buddhism and Islam found adherents throughout Southeast Asia?

A) An emphasis on war as a righteous pursuit
B) Attention to the acquisition of material wealth
C) An appealing message of egalitarianism

Question 14

The Tamil people of southeast India were renowned for their artistic achievements in what medium?

A) Bronze statuary
B) Oil on canvas
C) Ceramics

Question 15

On what island did the kingdom of Majapahit thrive during the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries?

A) Java
B) Sumatra
C) Ceylon

Question 16

The creation of Urdu is the result of which of the following processes?

A) Cultural mixing
B) Royal decree
C) Poetic license

Question 17

Which of the following religions eventually dominated Tibetan life?

A) Hinduism
B) Tantrism
C) Buddhism

Question 18

Which of the following simply characterizes social relations within Hindu-Javanese society?

A) Egalitarianism ensured all people enjoyed access to the same rights and privileges.
B) Social inequality persisted between people of different statuses.
C) Constant class warfare eroded the delicate fabric of Hindu-Javanese society.

Question 19

Which of the following typifies the family structure in Theravada Buddhist-influenced Siam?

A) Extended multigenerational families
B) Small nuclear families
C) Considered all villagers as immediate family

Question 20

Which of the following groups would be least likely to embrace bhakti teachings?

A) Women
B) Members of the lower castes
C) Brahmans

Question 21

What policies led to Buddhist and Hindu emigration from Central Asia and Northern India?

Question 22

What is the historical significance of the city of Melaka on Malaya's southwest coast?

A) It functioned as the unofficial capital of the Khmer ruler.
B) It remained a colony of China for over a thousand years.
C) It served as an important link in global trade.

Question 23

Describe the Hindu Renaissance.

Question 24

Who controlled Vietnam for over a thousand years until 939 CE?

A) Siam
B) Japan
C) China

Question 25

Describe Muslim expansion in Central Asia.

Question 26

What benefits did control over Central Asia give to Islamic kingdoms there?

Question 27

Describe Raziya's policies and their results.

Question 28

Describe Hindu society during this period.

Question 29

Which of the following European peoples arrived in Southeast Asia during the early sixteenth century to deleterious effect on local societies?

A) The Spanish
B) The British
C) The Portuguese

Question 30

Describe the political composition of South Asia during this period.

Question 31

Which of the following accurately describes the forty-one-year reign of King Harshavardhana?

A) His reign spurred violent clashes and disunity in North India.
B) His reign is marked by a brief period of unity in parts of North India.
C) His reign marks the only period in Indian history that the North and South unified.

Question 32

What were the origins of the Delhi Sultanate?

Question 33

What is the historical significance of the sisters Shi Daniang and Shi Erjie?

A) They were Muslim women who ruled during the fifteenth century.
B) They were Hindu deities who guided merchant ships to safe harbor in Melaka.
C) They were Buddhist priestesses who acted as spiritual advisors to Muslim kings.

Question 34

Which of the following members of society did many Vietnamese frequently venerate as crucial?

A) Peasants
B) Slaves
C) Children

Question 35

How did large cities and small villages experience Islamic expansion differently during this period?

Question 36

Describe Sultan Iltutmish's policies and their results.

Question 37

Why did the benefits from control over Central Asia decline during this period?

Question 38

Which of the following best describes the beliefs and practice of Hinduism?

A) Strictly dogmatic
B) Divergent and undogmatic
C) A single shared system of worship

Question 39

The Southeast Asian societies described as Malayo-Muslim can most accurately be defined as what?

A) Islamic peoples from Malaya
B) Hindu peoples from Melaka
C) Buddhist peoples from Mekong

Question 40

What similarities and differences existed between men's and women's lives in Central Asia and Northern India during this period?

Question 41

How did Muslim persecution of Hinduism affect cities compared to villages?

Question 42

Describe the origins of Sukhothai.

Question 43

What Chinese influences shaped Vietnamese politics and society?

Question 44

What results did the ruler of Melaka's policies have for the port itself?

Question 45

What was Ayutthaya's relationship to Sukhothai?

Question 46

Which of the following best describes the role of Rajputs, or "King's Sons"?

A) Members of a Hindu warrior caste; they controlled some northern Indian states.
B) Members of the merchant class; they controlled the local economies in southern Indian states.
C) Members of a Buddhist group throughout India; they assumed control of states when more suitable rulers could not be found.

Question 47

What effect did Mongol invasions have on Southeast Asian politics and economies?

Question 48

What impact did the influence of Islam and British colonialism have on Hindu conceptions of sexuality?

A) They tempered Hindu society's relatively open explorations and representations of sexuality.
B) They offered Hindu society a glimpse into much more open sexual attitudes.
C) They did not impact Hindu society's conceptions of sexuality.

Question 49

What similarities and differences existed between Javanese and Sumatran kingdoms?

Question 50

Why did the Chola empire want to suppress piracy?

Question 51

What are some legacies of Muslim rule in northern India?

Question 52

How did Southeast Asian elites and ordinary people differ in their religious practices?

Question 53

What South Asian beliefs and ideas underpinned the institution of the god-king?

Question 54

Describe Vietnam's relations with China during this period.

Question 55

How did the foreign policy of Melaka's ruler influence regional economies and religious practices?

Question 56

How did Islam and Hinduism mingle?

Question 57

What motivated Southeast Asian states to seek closer relations with the Islamic world?

Question 58

Why did many Southeast Asian states adopt Indian political models?

Question 59

What was Sukhothai's relationship with China?

Question 60

What factors challenged the stability of the Delhi Sultanate?

Question 61

Describe the context and early supporters of the Bhakti movement.

Question 62

How did Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam mingle (or not) in South Asia during this period?

Question 63

How was Vietnam different to other Southeast Asian kingdoms and states?

Question 64

Which of the following groups of women generally enjoyed more mobility in Hindu society?

A) High-caste women
B) Women of the lower-castes and untouchables
C) No women were permitted mobility in Hindu society.

Question 65

To what extent did religious policies of the Delhi Sultanate's rulers help or hinder the survival of the state?

Question 66

Which of the following accurately describes traditional village life in India?

A) Villages depended wholly on external support because only members of the lower castes resided there.
B) Cities, town, and villages all operated at the same level of economic activity.
C) Self-sufficient communities, villages functioned relatively smoothly and in accord with the caste system.

Question 67

What mechanism did members of Hindu society employ to ensure social security?

A) An extended family network
B) Government social services
C) Self-reliance

Question 68

What similarities and differences existed between Javanese and Sumatran kingdoms and Cambodia?

Question 69

Why were Bhakti and Sufi practices and communities more prone to sharing religious ideas than others? Which ideas did they share?

Question 70

What similarities and differences existed between the Chola empire and Vijayanagara, and what were their legacies?

Question 71

To what extent was religion the most important factor in trade in early modern Southeast Asia?

Question 72

How did Islamic practices of rule in Central Asia help and hinder the longevity of their states?

Question 73

The Battle of the Talas River in 751 ended resistance to Muslim dominance in what region?

A) North India
B) Afghanistan
C) Central Asia

Question 74

Why were so many large cities in Southeast Asia abandoned, and did religious or economic motives play a more important part?

Question 75

How did the Hindu response to Islam differ to the Buddhist response?

Question 76

How did the adoption of Theravada Buddhism shape the economy and society in early modern Siam?

Question 77

Were economic, political, or religious problems the most important cause of the decline of the Delhi Sultanate?

Question 78

What was the relative importance of Southeast Asia to the early modern global economy?