| What group of people originated the Hindu caste system? | Aryans Kshatriya monks Vedic Brahmans |
| The ultimate goal of the Hindu caste system was to attain what? | moksha dharma karma samsara |
| The rulers of the Delhi Sultanate in India were followers of what religious tradition? | Islam Christianity Buddhism Hinduism |
| Yang Jian, founder of the Sui dynasty, was an adherent of what religious tradition? | Buddhism Christianity Hinduism Islam |
| What was the likely reason the aristocracy opposed the rule of Empress Wu Zetian? | She was female. She was a peasant. She was Hindu. She opposed Confucian teachings. |
| Why did Tang emperor Wuzong persecute Buddhist monks and nuns? | Wuzong believed Buddhism threatened the Confucian state and the imperial order. Buddhism was illegal under the Tang. Buddhist monks and nuns routinely protested the religious intolerance of the Tang. Many civil servants in the bureaucracy were Buddhist, which threatened Tang control. |
| Sumptuary laws enacted under the Tang emperor Gaozong were meant to achieve what purpose? | tighten laws governing the types of clothes women could wear restrict the foods women could eat at the Tang Court enshrine legal proscriptions on women scholars censor the language used by female courtesans in the poetry they wrote |
| Who were the successors to the Umayyads? | the Abbasids the Sasanids the Parthians the Tang |
| What was a key result of the Battle of Talas River? | the end of Abbasid expansion into China the conquest of the Tang by the Abbasids the spread of Hinduism the conquest of the Abbasids by the Tang |
| During the reign of what king did Aksum’s trade with the African interior expand considerably, making the kingdom wealthy and powerful? | Ezna Prester John Solomon Frumentius |
| What was a key export from East Africa? | ivory cotton glassware silk |
| During the Middle Ages, what was a patrician in East Africa? | a Muslim who could trace their Middle Eastern descent an African living in Arabia a pagan who could trace their Middle Eastern descent a settler on the east coast of Africa |
| What kingdom succeeded because of its ability to monopolize trade through the Palk Strait? | Chola Srivijaya Swahili Delhi Sultanate |
| What group replaced the Sasanid Empire? | Umayyads Tang Abbasids Byzantines |
| What two religious traditions were practiced in Japan during the Yamato period? | Buddhism and Shintoism Buddhism and Catholicism Catholicism and Hinduism Hinduism and Shintoism |
| What Asian country did not adopt Chinese writing? | Sogdiana China Japan Korea |
| What was the language of the Silk Roads until the seventh century CE? | Sogdian Chinese Japanese Korean |
