Deck 18: South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia: Triumphs and Challenges, 1450-1750

Question 1

Neo-Confucianism included ideas from each of the following traditions of thought EXCEPT which?

A) Buddhism
B) Daoism
C) Christianity

Answer 1

Christianity

Question 2

Who oversaw the expansion of Dutch trade and power in Southeast Asia?

A) A private trading company headquartered in the Netherlands
B) Indonesian princes supported by the Dutch government
C) The Dutch government after it attained independence from Spain

Answer 2

A private trading company headquartered in the Netherlands

Question 3

The founder of the Mughal Empire in India was whom?

A) Akbar
B) Tamerlane
C) Babur

Answer 3

Babur

Question 4

Matteo Ricci tried to introduce what into Qing China?

A) Catholicism
B) Opium
C) Tea

Question 5

Capitalism and industrialization did not develop in China under the Qing for which of the following reasons?

A) China had a severe labor shortage.
B) Chinese merchants were too powerful.
C) The government maintained a monopoly over essential commodities.

Question 6

Islam's effects on Southeast Asia included which of the following?

A) Women were increasingly regarded as social and political equals.
B) Islamic kingdoms began cutting commercial ties with the wider world.
C) Southeast Asian Muslims began making the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Question 7

Which of the following areas were NOT conquered and/or annexed by the Qing dynasty?

A) Tibet
B) Xinjiang
C) Korea

Question 8

Eight-five percent of the Filipinos converted to what religion after the 1600s?

A) Catholicism
B) Islam
C) Buddhism

Question 9

The name of the dynasty that ruled Korea from 1392 until 1910 was which of the following?

A) Choson
B) Yi
C) Jomon

Question 10

The majority religion in Mughal India was which of the following?

A) Hinduism
B) Islam
C) Buddhism

Question 11

Why did Siam have one of the highest literacy rates in the premodern world?

A) Chinese rulers forced them to study Confucian classics.
B) Buddhist monks started many high-quality schools throughout the country.
C) Siam and the West had established very close links and many western teachers came there.

Question 12

One of the largest non-Filipino groups living in the Philippines were merchants from where?

A) Mughal India
B) Sumatra
C) China

Question 13

Who became the major threat to the Mughals, Dutch, and French in Asia?

A) England
B) The Sikhs
C) Portugal

Question 14

Unlike previous dynasties, Ming China followed which policy?

A) State-supported industrialization
B) Aggressive expansion
C) Isolationism

Question 15

The Qing dynasty implemented all the following policies EXCEPT which?

A) A total ban on European contacts
B) Forbidding Manchus to marry Chinese
C) Requiring people pass the ancient civil service exam to serve in high government posts

Question 16

Beginning in 1615, the French began to trade with and to send Catholic missionaries to which Southeast Asian state?

A) Siam
B) Vietnam
C) Laos

Question 17

The Chinese allowed the Portuguese to build a base at Macao for which of the following reasons?

A) To encourage more trade with Europe
B) To stop Portuguese piracy
C) To encourage more conversions to Catholicism

Question 18

Why did the Qing government ban Christianity in the 1700s??

A) Because it was seen as too magical and superstitious
B) Because it was thought to undermine Chinese traditions
C) Because it was being used as an excuse to station Europeans troops in China

Question 19

Most of the early-modern era population of Siam followed which of the following religions?

A) Hinduism
B) Mahayana Buddhism
C) Theravada Buddhism

Question 20

The Korean state of Choson was damaged by an invasion by whom in 1592?

A) China
B) Portugal
C) Japan

Question 21

Which of the following characteristics set Japan apart from its neighbors China and Korea?

A) A tradition of ignoring foreign influences
B) Powerful warlords in politics
C) The mixture of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism

Question 22

Who did the English make a commercial alliance with in northwest India to strengthen their position against the Mughals?

A) The Marathas
B) The Parsis
C) The Rajputs

Question 23

Describe the European position in the Indian Ocean world by 1750.

Question 24

Which of the following was a policy implemented by the Mughal ruler Akbar?

A) The persecution of Christians
B) Only appointing Muslims to high government positions
C) Getting rid of extra taxes on non-Muslims

Question 25

Which best describes the Tokugawa Shogunate?

A) It provided a quarter-millennium of peace and stability.
B) It allowed for the development of democracy.
C) It led to the development of Japanese industry.

Question 26

In comparison to European Enlightenment-era thought, neo-Confucianism is best described by which of the following statements?

A) It contributed to increasing Chinese cultural disunity.
B) It was less interested in technological and practical development.
C) It discouraged the reliance on reason and comparative knowledge.

Question 27

How did Vasco da Gama acquire wealth in South Asia?

A) Through offering superior trade goods
B) Through skillful negotiation and bribery
C) Through violence and terror

Question 28

Describe the origins of the Mughal empire.

Question 29

Who became shogun in 1603 and ended the Japanese civil war?

A) Hideyoshi Toyotomi
B) Tokugawa Ieyasu
C) Oda Nobunaga

Question 30

Aurangzeb's Mughal army was equipped with which of the following, making them a formidable power?

A) Advanced artillery that outranged European guns
B) War elephants and heavy chariots
C) Gunpowder weapons and war elephants

Question 31

Which of the following statements best describes Qing emperor Kangzi?

A) He was a model Confucian ruler.
B) He was aloof and remained isolated in the Forbidden City.
C) He had one of the longest reigns in Chinese history.

Question 32

Compared to Akbar and Jahangir, Aurangzeb is best described how?

A) More religiously tolerant
B) Less religiously tolerant
C) Tolerant of Hindus, but not Muslims

Question 33

Describe the religious policy of the Mughal empire.

Question 34

Why was Akbar's reign referred to as a "golden age"?

Question 35

Describe the Mughal empire's interactions with the Indian Ocean world.

Question 36

The Japanese daimyo are best described how?

A) The best-quality swords
B) Priests of Shintoism
C) Powerful landowning magnates

Question 37

In order to discourage rebellion, the Tokugawa Shogunate required which of the following?

A) Samurai to relinquish their arms and castles
B) Daimyo family members to live as hostages in the capital
C) Abolition of the office of the Emperor

Question 38

Japan provided which of the following to the rest of Asia in the 1600s and 1700s?

A) Swords
B) Slaves
C) Gold

Question 39

Shah Jahan, unlike his grandfather, promoted what religion?

A) Sikhism
B) Hinduism
C) Islam

Question 40

Why was the Mughal empire not able to resist European advances?

Question 41

How did the Qing govern their empire?

Question 42

Describe Spain's religious policies in the Philippines.

Question 43

How did Portuguese-Dutch rivalry play out in Southeast Asia?

Question 44

What methods did the Dutch use to acquire their empire in Indonesia?

Question 45

Describe the Qing economy.

Question 46

Describe Choson's relations with China during this period.

Question 47

Describe the importance of the Philippines to the Spanish empire.

Question 48

In the 1660s, what led to a tripling of the money supply in Mughal India?

A) An influx of American silver
B) An increase in taxes on non-Muslims
C) New fees on exports of cotton textiles

Question 49

What was the origin of the Ming empire?

Question 50

What did the Qing do with new imports of silver from European colonies?

Question 51

What was Southeast Asia's relative importance to the global economy?

Question 52

Describe Siamese relations with Europe in the early modern period.

Question 53

Describe Qing efforts at expansion and their results.

Question 54

Describe Qing relations with Europe.

Question 55

Why were Britain and France increasingly drawn into Mughal politics?

Question 56

How did the Qing dynasty come to power?

Question 57

What was the result of the many conflicts between Siam and Burma in the 1500s and 1600s?

Question 58

Describe the British East India Company's operations.

Question 59

In 1750, India was the world's largest producer of which commodity?

A) Opium
B) Textiles
C) Coffee

Question 60

Why was the British East India company increasingly assertive in Indian affairs?

Question 61

How had Europeans' position changed by the end of the 1600s, and how had it remained the same? Why?

Question 62

Why did Qing economic growth not lead to an industrial revolution?

Question 63

How did Japanese shoguns promote stability within Japan?

Question 64

The founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak, said salvation was achieved by which of the following?

A) Devotion
B) Good deeds
C) Mysticism

Question 65

To what extent did the Dutch government have control over the operations of the Dutch East India Company? What problems did this create?

Question 66

Why were many Southeast Asian states able to resist European expansion?

Question 67

How was the Qing empire an important part of the global economic system? How did European colonial expansion help or hamper Qing development?

Question 68

Describe Choson's relations with Japan during this period.

Question 69

To what extent did the British government control East India Company involvement in India? What problems did this create?

Question 70

Akbar granted Sikhs land in Amritsar for what purpose?

A) To build a graveyard
B) To build a temple
C) To build a free Sikh state

Question 71

How did Britain and France compete with each other in India? How were their strategies similar or different to one another?

Question 72

What changes in scholarship and philosophy did the Qing promote? Does this explain Qing attitudes toward the role of women?

Question 73

To what extent did the Tokugawa Shogunate solve Japan's political, economic, and social problems? To what extent did it make them worse?

Question 74

Compare and contrast Kangxi's reign with Yongzheng's. Why are they both remembered as good rulers?

Question 75

How did Japan respond to European expansion in Asia?

Question 76

To what extent did Japanese shoguns promote regional stability?

Question 77

How did the Ming react to growing European involvement in the Indian Ocean world and China? Why did they react this way?

Question 78

Describe Akbar's policies and what results they had on the economic, religious, and political life of Mughal society.

Question 79

How did Korea's experience of war with Japan slow its development? What consequences did the war have on Korea's alignment in the region?

Question 80

Did external or internal factors contribute the most to Mughal decline?