Deck 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia

Question 1

Discuss the reasons, religious and otherwise, which explain the decline of Buddhism in the land of its birth.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Trace the outlines of societal hierarchies from hunter-gatherers to civilizations of the first millennium CE.

Answer 2

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Question 3

How did local, Indian, and Chinese elements and influences interact to help shape the societies of early Southeast Asia? Were Southeast Asian cultures really unique, or were they largely based upon those of India and/or China?

Answer 3

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Question 4

How did the beliefs of followers of the Theravada and Mahayana branches of Buddhism differ? How did their positions reflect differing ideas about the likelihood of their followers achieving nirvana ?

Question 5

Discuss the lives of women in India and Southeast Asia. Where did women have the greatest opportunities? Where were conditions more difficult? How did class/caste play a role in women's experiences?

Question 6

What factors, religious and non-religious, led to the successful establishment of Islam in India?

Question 7

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Silk Road

Question 8

Using specific examples, discuss the impact of Islam on the art and architecture of India.

Question 9

How did the geographic features of Southeast Asia influence the developmental possibilities, and the subsequent evolution, of its two basic regions?

Question 10

Explain what role different religions played in the history of India from the Aryan invasion to the Gupta dynasty.

Question 11

What were some of the factors that led many in Southeast Asia to adopt Theravada Buddhism?

Question 12

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Kushan Kingdom

Question 13

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Fa Xian and Xuan Zang

Question 14

What was the significance, religious and otherwise, in the careers of the Chinese Buddhist monks, Fa Xian and Xuan Zang?

Question 15

What were the main characteristics of Southeast Asian society before 1500 C.E.?

Question 16

Explain the importance of the Silk Road to the spread of Buddhism.

Question 17

What factors might explain the success of Hinduism, first in the challenge of Buddhism and second, in the later challenge of Islam?

Question 18

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Kanishka

Question 19

What were the challenges that the geography of the Indian subcontinent presented as impediments to the imperial ambitions of the Guptas and the later Mughals?

Question 20

To what degree was religion a major influence in Indian art and literature? Cite representative examples from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam to illustrate and support your viewpoint.

Question 21

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purdah

Question 22

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bodhisattva

Question 23

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Rajputs

Question 24

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the Sind and Punjab

Question 25

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Bamiyan Buddhas

Question 26

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Chola

Question 27

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Chandragupta I and Chandragupta II

Question 28

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Guptas

Question 29

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Delhi sultanate

Question 30

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Tamerlane

Question 31

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Devi

Question 32

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Hinayana

Question 33

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Ganges Valley

Question 34

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Mahmud of Ghazni

Question 35

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Pataliputra

Question 36

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bhakti

Question 37

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nirvana

Question 38

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puja

Question 39

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Mahayana

Question 40

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Theravada

Question 41

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sati

Question 42

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Khajurao

Question 43

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Funan

Question 44

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Mount Kailasa

Question 45

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Kalidasa's The Cloud Messenger

Question 46

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Malay Peninsula

Question 47

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Mamallapuram

Question 48

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Ellora rock temple

Question 49

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Sanskrit

Question 50

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Ajanta caves

Question 51

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Dandin's The Ten Princes

Question 52

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Srivijaya

Question 53

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nada , raga , and sitar

Question 54

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Deccan Plateau

Question 55

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Sikhism

Question 56

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the Irrawaddy, the Salween, the Chao Phraya, and the Mekong

Question 57

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Parsis

Question 58

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Dandin

Question 59

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Pagan

Question 60

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Aryabhata

Question 61

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kampongs

Question 62

The Kushan kingdom

A) was an important conduit for Buddhism from India to China.
B) was inhabited by Mesopotamian peoples.
C) defeated the Aryan invaders of India.
D) was installed by the Mongols.
E) rose to great heights during the third century C.E.

Question 63

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Easter Island

Question 64

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Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat

Question 65

Where was the capital of the Kushan kingdom located?

A) Pataliputra
B) Bactria
C) Kanchipuram
D) Bombay
E) Karakoram

Question 66

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Thai and Burmese

Question 67

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Borobudur Temple

Question 68

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Bactria

Question 69

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Maori

Question 70

Who was the greatest of the Kushan rulers?

A) Rurika
B) Tiberius
C) Chandragupta
D) Kanishka
E) Fa Xian

Question 71

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Majapahit

Question 72

Which statement about the Kushan kingdom is FALSE ?

A) It benefitted from its intermediary role in trade between China and Rome.
B) Its growth was aided by the increasing appeal of Buddhism.
C) It met a dubious end in the third century.
D) It outlawed Buddhism during  King Kanishka's reign.
E) Its ruler, King Kanishka, was an ardent Buddhist.

Question 73

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Samarkand

Question 74

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Bamiyan

Question 75

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Pallavan kingdom

Question 76

Which statement best describes the Kushan kingdom?

A) It was an important intermediary in the Rome-China trade along the Silk Road.
B) It was a significant force in curtailing the spread of Buddhism.
C) It was primarily dependent on agriculture for its wealth.
D) It was hostile to any cooperation between merchants and Buddhist monasteries.
E) It was a successor state to Mongol rule in India.

Question 77

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Kutub Minar

Question 78

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Malayo-Polynesian

Question 79

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Strait of Sunda and Strait of Malacca

Question 80

The Buddhists who applied the term "lesser vehicle" to their rivals were eventually known as

A) Mahayana.
B) Hinayana.
C) Theravada.
D) Shi'ites.
E) Sivas.