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History, Specialty
9thgrade
Chapter 15 - India and Indian Ocean Basin
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- 1. Multiple ChoiceThe first southeast Asian state to reflect Indian influence was centered on its capital port city of Oc Eo. What was its name?MajapahitMelakaFunanSrivijaya
- 2. Multiple ChoiceThe scholarly Buddhist emperor who reunited northern India in the seventh century wasHarshaAshokaMahmud of GhazniShankara
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThe bhakti movementnever caught on in India as it had in Chinasought to erase the distinction between Hinduism and Islamappealed to Indians who were stifled by the strictly monotheistic views of Hinduismtried to find god through a strictly rationalistic pursuit of the divine
- 4. Multiple ChoiceMahmud of Ghazni's main inspiration for visiting India in the eleventh century was tospread Islamvisit important Buddhist templesbuild a centralized state based on a Persian modelplunder
- 5. Multiple ChoiceAn invasion in 451 C.E. by the White Huns began the collapse of theGupta dynastyMauryan dynastyByzantine empireHan dynasty
- 6. Multiple ChoiceThe kingdoms of southern India were mainlyIslamicBuddhistHinduSikh
- 7. Multiple ChoiceThe temples of Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat were built by the rulers of what kingdom?MajapahitSrivijayaFunanKhmer
- 8. Multiple ChoiceThe biggest difference between Melaka and the other states influenced by India was that MelakaA. played a role in sea trade, while the other states relied on land tradebecame predominantly Islamicstarted out as mainly Islamic but later converted to Buddhismbuilt a large, centralized land empire
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe Islamic ruler who led seventeen different raiding expeditions into India in the eleventh century wasMahmud of GhazniRamanujaHariharaAbu Bakr
- 10. Multiple ChoiceIn regard to political structure, post-classical Indiarivaled Tang China in respect to size and administrative brilliancecopied the Chinese model after being conquered by the Tangwas most influenced by Byzantiumdeveloped no single centralized imperial authority
- 11. Multiple ChoiceIn 711, the northern Indian area of Sind fell to theUmayyad dynastyChola dynastyAbbasid dynastyTang dynasty
- 12. Multiple ChoiceNorthern India was dominated from the thirteenth through the early sixteenth century by theAbbasid dynasty.Southern Song dynastyDelhi sultanateUmayyad dynasty
- 13. Multiple ChoiceIn 1336, Harihara and Bukka, two emissaries from the Delhi sultan, renounced Islam, reconverted to Hinduism, and founded the southern kingdom ofVijayanagarFunanAngkorMaurya
- 14. Multiple ChoiceHindu templeswere never able to compete with the strong Buddhist temples of northern Indiaheld southern India back economically because of the Hindu law against lending money.disappeared in southern India because of the prominence of Islam.played an important role in the agricultural and financial development of southern India
- 15. Multiple ChoiceFunan dominated the lower reaches of which southeast Asian riverMekongIrrawaddySalweenYangzi
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following states had its base in CambodiaSingosariMelakaAngkorMajapahit
- 17. Multiple ChoiceIslam reached India by all of the following routes EXCEPTconquest by Arabic invadersIslamic merchantsmissionaries sent by the emperor Harshaconquest by Arabic invaders and missionaries sent by Harsha
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe Delhi sultans werenever able to expand their control beyond northern Indiaable to unite all of India for the first time since the Mauryasable to make Islam the main religion of Indiaproponents of a more syncretic version of Islam
- 19. Multiple ChoiceVijayanagar, the name of a southern Indian kingdom, means"land of Vishnu.""beloved of Allah.""the pure land.""city of victory."
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThe wealthy trading state that controlled southern India from 850 through 1267 was theChola kingdomVijayanagar kingdomkingdom of Funan.kingdom of Angkor
- 21. Multiple ChoiceIndia was a natural location for the establishment of emporia because ofthe continuous problem of Chinese piratesits central location in the Indian Ocean basinthe absence of any monsoon windsits strong, centralized government
- 22. Multiple ChoiceThe bhakti teacher Guru Kabir believedthat the only true path to salvation was through complete devotion to Allahin a harshly exclusive faiththat Shiva, Vishnu, and Allah were all manifestations of a single, universal deitythat Buddhism was the only true faith.
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following states was most heavily influenced by Islam?VijayanagarMelakaAngkorFunan
- 24. Multiple ChoiceDuring the post-classical age, the caste systemdisappeared because of the arrival of Islamcreated chaos in local communitiesbecame securely established in southern India for the first timerejected migrants coming into India
- 25. Multiple ChoiceThe kingdom of Srivijayaconverted to Islamwas the first southeast Asian state to adopt Indian wayswas the only Christian kingdom in southeast Asiawas located on Sumatra and maintained a sea trade route between China and India
- 26. Multiple ChoiceParamesvara was known forwriting the Bhagavata Puranaplaying a pivotal role in the spread of the bhakti movementleading a series of plundering raids into India in the eleventh century.founding the kingdom of Melaka
- 27. Multiple ChoiceAfter the collapse of the Gupta dynasty in the fifth century, India would not be completely reunited until theseventh century.sixteenth centurythirteenth centuryninth century.
- 28. Multiple ChoiceThe presence of the changing monsoon winds ensured thatirrigation never developed in India, because it was never necessary.irrigation was necessary in arid southern Indiashipping was impossible in the Indian Ocean basin.India enjoyed complete isolation.
- 29. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following Indian concepts did NOT become popular in the southeast Asian states influenced by IndiaHinduismthe caste systemconducting official business in Sanskritliterary classics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata
- 30. Multiple ChoiceThe design of the Khmer temples at Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat showthe influence of both Hindu and Buddhist traditionsthe growing influence of Islama definite influence from the Tang dynastyConfucian influence
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