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Asia 600-1450 Multiple Choice

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___1. Which statement best defines the Mongols’ political relationship to Russia?

  1. Russia’ local economy suffered under Mongol control
  2. Russia was immediately plundered and pillaged when the Mongols arrived
  3. Russians were the only group other than the mamluks to defeat the Mongols in battle
  4. Russian princes were persuaded to cooperate with Mongol khans and thereby maintained some local autonomy

___2.What was the tributary system?

  1. A labor system that required each family member to send the oldest son to serve in the court of the Chinese emperor
  2. A requirement that each family in China pay 1/10th of its income to the Chinese emperor
  3. A system of payment that the Mongols created to control the flow of money in each of their Khanates
  4. Gifts given by independent states in the East and Southeast Asia to acknowledge the supremacy of China

___3.The Tang elite blamed Buddhism for the social upheaval occurring at the end of their empire because

  1. Buddhism taught that the emperor was inherently evil
  2. Buddhist followers were required to rebel against the government to prove their loyalty
  3. Buddhist monks convinced the emperor to adopt Buddhism rather than Confucianism as the model for the state government
  4. Buddhism had come to China from India & therefore was a foreign influence that went against traditional Confucianist ideals

___4.The Song Empire contributed to science and technology by

  1. Proving that all Tang innovations were incorrect
  2. Creating a new form of gunpowder
  3. Improving maritime expertise by improving the compass and the junk
  4. Borrowing military techniques with gunpowder from the Europeans

___5.The Yuan dynasty was significant for many reasons, including

  1. Establishing the Koryo dynasty in Japan as a puppet government
  2. Playing a significant role in decreasing the Chinese population
  3. Marrying into the Delhi Sultanate in order to dominate the Indian Ocean trade network
  4. Sending Zheng He on voyages to continue to conquer territory for the Mongols

___6.The use of paper money began with

  1. Song Empire
  2. Persian Empire
  3. Tang Empire
  4. Abbasid caliphate

___7.The innovation of metal movable type began in

  1. Korea
  2. India
  3. Japan
  4. Russia

___8. Both the Mongols and Yongle’s Ming Empire

  1. Based all political appointments on the Confucian examination system
  2. Made Beijing the capital of their empires
  3. Engaged in trade only with their fellow Muslims
  4. Expanded the Great Wall to keep foreigners out

___9. One result of the Mongols’ attempted invasions of Japan was

  1. Protection of Japanese resources and temporary unification of Japanese lords
  2. The death of the Japanese emperor
  3. A civil war in Japan
  4. Japanese lords surrendering to the Mongols

___10. The Indian Ocean trade network

  1. Was a significant trade route but brought wealth only to the coast of East Africa
  2. Brought wealth to the Delhi Sultanate and furthered its interest in economic growth
  3. Was primarily used by Christians from eastern Europe and the Mediterranean regions
  4. Was controlled by the Mongols beginning with Khubilai Khan in the 13th Century

___11. Cities in the Middle East and in China were similar in that they

  1. Were much smaller than comparable cities in Europe and the Americas
  2. Served as areas of administrative, commercial, and cultural interactions
  3. Served as centers of disease, especially the plague
  4. Were surrounded by fortress – like walls to ward off strangers

___12. Zheng He and ibnBattuta were similar in that both were

  1. Very tall
  2. Eunuchs
  3. Travelers
  4. Published Authors

___13. After the Ming dynasty gained power form the Mongols, it

  1. Tried to continue Mongol traditions such as a focus on trade
  2. Quickly reinstituted the traditional Chinese bureaucracy
  3. Gradually turned away from the commercial nature of the Song and the Yuan dynasties by emphasizing food crops over commercial crops
  4. Outlawed Buddhism

___14. The Japanese feudal system

  1. Was remarkably similar to the European feudal system
  2. Was invented in response to the Mongol threat
  3. Came directly from Europe
  4. Worked because it gave the emperor significant power

___15. Vietnam’s greatest contribution to Tang China was

  1. Iron smelting
  2. The exam-system bureaucracy
  3. The domestication of draft animals
  4. Wet rice cultivation