Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Grand Sect 
B)  Grand Tribunal 
C)  Grand Council 
D)  Grand Secretariat

Question 2

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Yesugei Baghatur 
B)  Temujin 
C)  Belgutei 
D)  Timur-i-Lang

Question 3

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Pandya 
B)  Chola 
C)  Chalukya 
D)  Odda

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Madrasa 
B)  Palace 
C)  Buddha statue 
D)  Minaret

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A)  obeisance 
B)  hierarchy 
C)  merit 
D)  nepotism

Question 6

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  land armies 
B)  religious crusades 
C)  naval expeditions 
D)  Silk Road missionaries

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Yuan 
B)  Ming 
C)  Tang 
D)  Song

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Sponsoring extensive trade networks with Chinese traders. 
B)  Creating government-run and -operated kilns for porcelain production. 
C)  Heavy taxation, including the jizya tax on non-Muslims 
D)  Easing restrictions on the immigration of Hindus into their domains.

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

A)  A faith that emphasized a direct emotional experience with the divine. 
B)  An attempt to combine elements of Hinduism and Islam. 
C)  An offshoot of Islam created by the prophet Muhammad's grandson. 
D)  A faith that was persecuted by both Hindus and Muslims.

Question 10

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  syphilis 
B)  bubonic plague 
C)  yellow fever 
D)  leprosy

Question 11

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."

Accepted Answer

A)  Vijayanagar 
B)  Srivijaya 
C)  Kadaram 
D)  Mabappalam

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A)  reduction in the size of the army 
B)  low taxes 
C)  relative religious tolerance 
D)  efficient imperial administration

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Blue 
B)  Green 
C)  Yellow 
D)  Red

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Their successful tactics of feigned retreat. 
B)  Their skill and horsemanship and archery. 
C)  Their ability to fire arrows at pursuers while galloping away from them. 
D)  Their surveillance and intelligence networks within the Song bureaucracy.

Question 15

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  The number of litter carriers per official 
B)  Buttons worn on the hats of officials 
C)  The number of wives allowed to each official 
D)  Hair length appropriate for particular audiences with the emperor

Question 16

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Tanjore 
B)  Delhi 
C)  Ghazna 
D)  Vijayanagar

Question 17

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Mazdaism and Zurvanism 
B)  Confucianism and Daoism 
C)  Jainism and Asceticism 
D)  Legalism and Maoism

Question 18

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:

Accepted Answer

A)  Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta 
B)  Niccolò de' Conti 
C)  Ruy González de Clavijo 
D)  Vasco da Gama, Nicolau Coelho, and Bartolomeu Dias

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Confucianism, Daoism, and Hinduism 
B)  Confucianism, Daoism, and Islam 
C)  Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islam 
D)  Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Warriors 
B)  Painters 
C)  Poets 
D)  Philosophers

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