Exam 12: Contrasting Patterns in India, China, and Inner Asia, 600-1600 C.E

The ______________ was a select group of senior officials who served as an advisory board to the Ming emperor on all imperial matters.

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.

The political center of the Indian subcontinent shifted south and, by the latter part of the ninth century, the ________ state had consolidated its hegemony over southern India and its control of the trade with southeast Asia.

The Qutb, built next to Delhi's first mosque, is said to still be the world's largest _________.

Like the Tang, the Song instituted a strong central government based on _______ rather than heredity.

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.

The practice of binding girls' feet, in order to make their feet tinier and their marriage prospects more viable, originated in the ___________ period.

The northern sultanates, such as the regime of Ala-ud-din of the Tughluqs, supported their economies through __________.

Sikhism could be described in all of the following ways except:

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 lingering effects of ______________ that ravaged the country in the 1340s.

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."

Which of the following was a characteristic of Mongol rule in China?

Elegant white and celadon (a shade of __________) porcelain vessels were manufactured in great numbers in Song China, often in government-sponsored and -run kilns.

Mongol armies had all of the following advantages over their opponents EXCEPT:

An array of sumptuary laws and a court-directed protocol of ____________ signified to which of the nine official grades a member of the scholar-gentry belonged.

A new Hindu state emerged in 1336 with the founding of the city of ___________, which was deemed fabulously wealthy by the first Portuguese traders in the sixteenth century.

With the arrival of the Song dynasty, China would become a religious civilization in which its people reemphasized the indigenous traditions of _______________________, with elements of Buddhism on a more reduced level.

Under the Yuan Dynasty, China became part of a much larger empire, and its culture was widely diffused throughout Eurasia, most notably through the accounts of:

"Neo-Confucianism" was the name given to the new synthesis of official beliefs blending the ideas of:

Li Bai (701-762) and Du Fu (ca. 721-770) were famous ______________ in the Tang period.