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The Kushan peoples

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C. were of Indo-European background, driven out of Central Asia by the Xiognu.

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Where was the capital of the Kushan kingdom located?

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B. Bactria

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All of the following wre true of the Kushan kingdom except

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D. the government crushed out Buddhism under King Kanishka.

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The Indian sea routes used by the Romans to ship Silk Road imports back to Rome

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C. passed through the Kushan Kingdom.

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The greatest of the Kushan rulers was

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D. Kanishka.

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The capital of the Gupta Dynasty under Chandragupta I was at

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A. Pataliputra.

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

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A. Mahayana.

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Mahayana Buddhism

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B. attempted to maximize the number of people who could obtain release from the wheel of life

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Buddhism declined in India

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C. in part, because its individualistic outlook appealed to the poorer population and, in so doing, aroused fear, among higher status Indians.

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In te divisions within Buddhism, those who followed the school of Theravada believed in

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A. an uncompromising attachment to individual conduct and the ability to escape mundane through the pursuit of comprehension.

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The most famous bodhisattva was

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B. Avalokitesvara.

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Which of the following was not a factor in the decline of Buddhism in India?

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Buddhism's reinforcement of the indian caste system

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Islam was spread through parts of India by the military advances of

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B. Mahmud of Ghazni.

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The Mongol khan from Samarkand who attacked the Islamic state of the Tughluq Dynasty was

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A. Tamerlane.

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Muslim rule in India

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D. found that most of the high posts in central government and the provinces were reserved for Muslims.

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Nanak

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D. founded a new religious movement, although he had originally tried to integrate Hindu and Muslim ideas and practices.

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Sikhism

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A. tried to blend Islam and Hinduism

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Indian Muslims

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A. formed Muslim castes, an ironic action in relation to the Islamic traditions elsewhere.

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Indian religious groups

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B. were, particularly its two major religious groups, strikingly different.

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In rural India

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D. a great deal of cotton was grown; more, indeed than anywhere else.

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In India, Muslims

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B. converted many lower caste Hindus to Islam

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Under the medieval Indian land-use system

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C. actual title of the farmland in the realm belonged to the king.

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Which of the following may have contributed to the decline in medieval Indian manufacturing and commercial activity within India?

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B. heavy local taxation of commerce by rulers for their many wars

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In medieval India

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D. cotton goods, spices and sandalwood were major exports.

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the group which dominated banking and the textile industry, and the group which dominated trade and manufacturing, respectively were the

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A. Paris and Jains.

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What factor served as the most significant and potent inhibitor of commercial development in medieval India?

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C. the restraining effects of the caste system

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During the period between the Mauryans and the Mughals, Indian culture

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B. experienced great creative development

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Which of the following is not true about the caves of Ajanta?

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A. They served only as shrines that wee nothing more than holes in cliffs

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One of the earliest freestanding structures on the indian subcontinent is the eighth century shore temple at

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A. Mamallapuram.

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It can be said of medieval Indian culture that

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B. the temples of India are among that civilization's most important artistic contributions

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Kalidasa

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C. combined poetry and prose as well as a number of languages in his plays.

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The stringed instrument used in Indian music is called the

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D. sitar.

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Which of the following statements is not true about ancient Indian music?

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B. It had no spiritual connection at all.

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The two major geographic components of Southeast Asia are

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B. an extensive archipelago today's Indonesia and the Philippines and a mainland zone from the Malay Peninsula north to China

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The peoples recognized as being among the first migrants into Southeast Asia during the first millennium C.E. were the

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C. Burmans and Thai.

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Trade in Southeast Asia

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B. was of considerable importance in the Indonesian archipelago.

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The Southeast Asia mainland kingdom formed in the ninth century was

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B. Angkor.

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The Burmans and Thai originally came from, respectively,

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B. Tibet and southwestern China

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In their political institutions, the new states of Southeast Asia

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B. assimilated Chinese and or Indian practices into their own ways of doing things.

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Which of the following statements was true about the religious underpinnings of the Indianized Southeast Asian states?

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D. Although based on Hindu political thought, they afforded great privilege to Buddhists who won over the masses.

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Many of the people found throughout the vast southeastern Asian region

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C. depended on maritime trade for their livelihoods

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Southeast Asian agriculture

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B. had an economic structure in which landlords served, in effect, as royal tax collectors.

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As far as social structure in Southeast Asia was concerned,

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B. there was a social hierarchy among the populations of the various societies .

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Which of the following is a valid observation about the social practices in the societies of traditional Southeast Asia?

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B. Southeast Asia women had more rights than Chinese women.

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Two major trading states on the Southeast Asian archipelago were

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B. Srivijaya and Majapahit.

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Which of the following was not true about religious practice in Southeast Asia?

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A. Buddhism and Hinduism were never in competition in the region.

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Why did Theravada Buddhism have such a strong appeal for the Burmese and others in the northern part of Southeast Asia?

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A. It didn't need a priest or ruler go-between to permit the believer to achieve Nirvana

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The most famous example of the Buddhist architecture that employed a massive stupa with nine sculpted terraces is the temple at

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B. Borobudur.

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Southeast Asia has proven to be

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A. a region of linkage between disparate civilizations

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Which of the following was not true about historic Southeast Asia?

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B. It was culturally integrated into a single religious social entity.

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