12.4 Review Questions

Question	Answer
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

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