Deck 6: Disruption and Renewal in South and East Asia

Question 1

Identification
Hsuan-tsang

Answer 1

not answer

Question 2

Identification
Kali

Answer 2

not answer

Question 3

Identification
Shiva

Answer 3

not answer

Question 4

Identification
Guptas

Question 5

Identification
Vishnu

Question 6

Identification
T'ai Tsung

Question 7

Identification
White Huns

Question 8

Identification
Krishna

Question 9

The differences between Hindus and Buddhists were blurred by the

A)teachings of Confucius.
B)admission of Gautama into the Hindu pantheon.
C)construction of many Buddhist establishments in northern India after the twelfth century.
D)tenth reincarnation of Vishnu.
E)none of these choices

Question 10

Identification
Fa-hsien

Question 11

Identification
Lakshmi

Question 12

Identification
Samudra Gupta

Question 13

Identification
Mahmud of Ghazni

Question 14

Identification
Chandra Gupta I

Question 15

Identification
Puranas

Question 16

Identification
Harsha

Question 17

Identification
Ajanta

Question 18

Identification
Ramayana

Question 19

Identification
Rajputs

Question 20

Identification
Chandra Gupta II

Question 21

According to an inscription of the Gupta dynasty, good rulers should

A)allow democratic privileges to their subjects.
B)be philosopher-kings.
C)abolish all caste distinctions.
D)keep the castes confined to their spheres of duty.
E)none of these choices

Question 22

Which of the following statements about the Muslims in north India is false?

A)They destroyed countless Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain shrines.
B)They built the Kutb Minar in Delhi in part with stones from demolished Hindu and Jain temples.
C)They destroyed the Buddhist university at Nalanda.
D)none of these choices
E)all of these choices

Question 23

South India, in the period of Muslim conquests in the north,

A)suffered the same fate, politically, as the north.
B)unified to form a powerful southern empire.
C)saw a flourishing of temple building and religious art.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 24

The high watermark of the Gupta Empire was reached with the reign of

A)Chandra Gupta I.
B)Samudra Gupta.
C)Chandra Gupta II.
D)the ruler who liked to be known as "exterminator of all other kings."
E)none of these choices

Question 25

Harsha became king at age

A)16, and ruled for 25 years.
B)16, and ruled for 41 years.
C)21, and ruled for 16 years.
D)41, and ruled for 16 years.
E)41, and ruled for 25 years.

Question 26

Which of the following statements about literature and scholarship in India under the Guptas is false?

A)The Guptas were good patrons of the arts.
B)Books first appeared in the fifth century, written on birch bark and specially prepared leaves.
C)Prakrit completely replaced Sanskrit, which became a "dead" language.
D)Indian scholars of this period devised a sign for zero and worked out a decimal number system.
E)none of these choices

Question 27

Mahmud of Ghazni

A)sought to spread Islam throughout India in a peaceful manner.
B)was an Arab from Egypt.
C)called himself the "image-breaker," because he delighted in destroying Hindu and Buddhist places of worship.
D)was a convert to Hinduism whose soldiers put to the sword 50,000 Muslims during one campaign.
E)none of these choices

Question 28

Which of the following statements about the Rajputs is false?

A)They were kshatriyas.
B)Researchers say many of them may have been descended from the Huns and other invaders.
C)They were like the knights of medieval Europe or the samurai of Japan in being fiercely proud hereditary warriors.
D)Rajput women were expected commit suicide on their husbands' funeral pyre.
E)none of these choices

Question 29

Muslim invaders of India after the death of Harsha differed from Central Asian tribal raiders in that they

A)were rapidly assimilated.
B)lacked religious bonds.
C)retained non-Indian identities.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 30

The death blow to the Gupta Empire came in the form of

A)attacks by Han Chinese forces.
B)attacks by Parthians.
C)repeated Hunnic invasions.
D)plague.
E)earthquakes.

Question 31

The Hindu god/goddess worshipped by "Thuggees" was

A)Kali.
B)Lakshmi.
C)Vishnu.
D)Shiva.
E)Krishna.

Question 32

Which of the following statements is false?

A)There were Jews and Christians in India by the Gupta era.
B)Some Jews came to India after the Great Dispersion of 70 C.E.
C)"White Jews" in India are of Aryan rather than Semitic ancestry.
D)Most Jews and Christians in India lived in Kerala.
E)none of these choices

Question 33

In Hinduism during the reign of the Guptas, Vishnu was

A)demoted to the rank of a minor divinity.
B)a primary object of worship as the benevolent preserver god.
C)a fearsome god of death and fertility.
D)an avatar of Shiva.
E)none of these choices

Question 34

As regards personal and family life in the Gupta era,

A)families were patriarchal.
B)marriages were not arranged by parents, but left to the discretion of the marrying parties.
C)men generally wore long flowing garments like the Roman toga.
D)women did not wear jewelry or ornament their hair.
E)none of these choices

Question 35

Under the Guptas and Harsha,

A)local administrators were practically independent of central control.
B)lack of adequate sources of revenue compelled the kings to pay official salaries partly in land grants.
C)the king's authority was limited to those areas under his direct control.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 36

Harsha

A)was financially very tight-fisted.
B)was a fanatic Buddhist who tolerated no other religion.
C)had little interest in learning or literature.
D)built many hospitals to dispense free medical care to the poor and travelers.
E)none of these choices

Question 37

The Buddhist cave temples at Ajanta

A)were built between the ninth and the first centuries B.C.E.
B)have interiors somewhat like those of Christian basilica churches.
C)are adorned only with inscriptions, not pictorial representations.
D)are typically some 650 feet square.
E)none of these choices

Question 38

The greatest contribution of Gupta art is

A)the depiction of the nude human figure.
B)highly realistic portrait sculpture.
C)the earliest use of the fresco painting technique.
D)the classical representation of the divinities of India.
E)none of these choices

Question 39

Which of the following was not an observation made by the Chinese pilgrim Fa-hsien about life in the reign of Chandra Gupta II?

A)Government was very inefficient.
B)Crime was rare.
C)One could travel from one end of the country to the other without fear of molestation.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 40

Hindu gods and goddesses were worshipped

A)at home.
B)in temples.
C)at special ceremonies with special gift offerings.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 41

Describe briefly the character and career of Chandra Gupta II.

Question 42

Identification
Angkor Wat

Question 43

Give a character sketch of Vishnu (or Shiva, or Krishna, or Kali).

Question 44

Identification
Borobodur

Question 45

Identification
Java

Question 46

Identification
Cambodia

Question 47

Identification
Khmer

Question 48

Identification
Malaya

Question 49

Briefly describe the manners and mores of Indian men and women in the Gupta era.

Question 50

Identification
Angkor Thom

Question 51

Identification
Vietnam

Question 52

Describe the evidence about Buddhist art found in the Ajanta caves.

Question 53

Identification
Pagan

Question 54

What was the role of the Chinese pilgrim Hsuan-tsang in Indo-Chinese relations?

Question 55

Identification
Burma

Question 56

Identification
Sumatra

Question 57

Identification
Thailand

Question 58

Identification
Phnom-Penh

Question 59

What was life like in India during the reign of Harsha?

Question 60

Identification
Ganesha

Question 61

Which of the following statements about Angkor Wat is false?

A)It was built between the tenth and twelfth centuries.
B)It was the site of a temple for Vishnu that consisted of a series of terraced structures culminating in a central shrine 213 feet above the ground.
C)It was sacked by the forces of Champa in 1177.
D)It was followed by a new capital, called Angkor Thom.
E)none of these choices

Question 62

Identification
Changan

Question 63

Hinduism in Indonesia

A)ultimately survived only on the island of Sumatra.
B)replaced Buddhism as the predominant cultural force on Java and Sumatra between the ninth and fourteenth centuries.
C)did not result in the building of any significant temples or shrines.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 64

The kingdom of Cambodia

A)saw its full flowering between the sixth and twelfth centuries.
B)ruled Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and parts of Burma, Vietnam, and the Malay Peninsula.
C)was receptive to Buddhism, not Hinduism.
D)was receptive to Hinduism, not Buddhism.
E)none of these choices

Question 65

Identify briefly (a) the event(s) that caused the Philippines to enter the historic era, and (b) the cultural and sociopolitical consequences of those events.

Question 66

Which of the following statements is false?

A)The Thai came from the borderlands of Burma, Tibet, and southwest China.
B)By the twelfth century the Thais had formed a united government.
C)Thai art and culture were heavily indebted to those of the Khmer.
D)none of these choices
E)all of these choices

Question 67

Early Indian traders who ventured to Southeast Asia sought spices and scented woods to sell particularly to

A)Egyptians.
B)Persians.
C)Romans.
D)Spaniards.
E)Carthaginians.

Question 68

In 1292, a punitive military expedition was sent to Java by

A)Japan.
B)Genghis Khan.
C)Kubilai Khan.
D)the Southern Sung Chinese government.
E)none of these choices

Question 69

What sorts of information about daily life can be gleaned from the Borobodur reliefs?

Question 70

Which of the following statements about the early history of the Philippine Islands is true?

A)There had been some contacts with Chinese trading ships as early and the beginning of the common era.
B)They were isolated and politically fragmented.
C)Few written materials survive from that time.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 71

It is true of the Thai people of the twelfth century and later that

A)their sacred language was Pali.
B)their capital of Ayodhia was named after a Chinese warlord who conquered the region.
C)they were exclusively Hindu.
D)their art remained slavishly imitative of Khmer and Gupta models.
E)all of these choices

Question 72

Which of the following statements is false?

A)The style of sculpture at Borobodur shows characteristics that are uniquely Indian, rather than Javanese.
B)Around 800, Mahayana Buddhists built the single largest Buddhist monument at Borobodur on Java.
C)Artistically, the islands of Indonesia were much indebted to India.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 73

Identification
Ch'an sect

Question 74

What is the importance of Angkor Wat in Cambodia?

Question 75

Which of the following statements is false?

A)Indian cultural influence did not come to Burma until the Gupta period.
B)Burma became a predominantly Theravada Buddhist land.
C)Burmese missionaries converted the people of Ceylon to Buddhism.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices

Question 76

Which of the following statements is false?

A)From Bengal in the Gupta and post-Gupta period, Indians brought Mahayana Buddhism to Sumatra.
B)Indian art and architecture had little influence in Java.
C)Ships regularly plied the route between Ceylon and the islands of Indonesia.
D)India's cultural influence in Southeast Asia was achieved by peaceful means.
E)none of these choices

Question 77

Indian traders and colonists began to trade and settle in Southeast Asia starting about

A)two thousand years ago.
B)three thousand years ago.
C)four thousand years ago.
D)two hundred years ago.
E)four hundred years ago.

Question 78

Why were the islands of Indonesia so attractive to foreign traders?

Question 79

What is the importance of Pagan in Burma?

Question 80

The shrine known as the Bayan at Angkor Thom

A)was dedicated to a popular bodhisattva and the king who identified with him.
B)had towers decorated with giant heads of the bodhisattva-god-king.
C)had friezes showing the Khmer army and navy in action against those of the Champa.
D)all of these choices
E)none of these choices