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HIST341 Final Exam - The Silk Road and Central Eurasia
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1. Which of the following inventions is NOT of Chinese origin?
2. Many Muslim, Indian, and Western historians see Akbar as the greatest ruler in Indian history.Which of the following is NOT a reason for this admiration?
3. In Chinese tradition, jade has always been empowered with magical properties.By 200 B.C., when the Book of Songs was written during the Zhou dynasty, the stone was established as which of the following?
4. Who was Genghis Khan (ca.1162-1227)?
5. For the first century following the Roman conquest, what happened to Egypt?
6. Which of the following products was NOT usually traded in the Maritime Silk Road?
7. When were horses and camels domesticated?
8. In 1370, the city of Samarkand became the capital of which empire?
9. How did Alexander III of Macedon, also known as Alexander the Great, shape the Silk Road?
10. Which Turkic conqueror (1336-1405) was chiefly remembered for the barbarity of his conquests from India and Russia to the Mediterranean Sea and for the cultural achievements of his dynasty?
11. Fill the blanks.The Silk Road is usually divided into______________ and ________________ routes.
12. Gandhara was an ancient province of India, which is known for its splendid art.Ganharan art is often referred to as the Greco or Roman Buddhist school.This school is generally credited with what?
13. What is the name of the famous 17th century French physician and adventurer whose observations of India would influence generations of Europeans?
14. In one of the caves in Dunhuang in 1900, archaeologists found a great library.Among handwritten copies of the Diamond Sutra, an important Buddhist text, there was one copy printed from woodblocks on sheets of paper joined end to end to form a long scroll.This copy of the Diamond Sutra is considered to be which of the following?
15. Kublai Khan (1215-94), a grandson of Genghis Khan and the supreme leader of all Mongol tribes, is credited with what?
16. When Emperor Han Wudi opened the maritime routes that provided access to the Roman Empire via India, he had created which of the following?
17. Fill in the blank. The Eurasian Steppe is a vast region stretching from ________________ in the west through Ukraine and Central Asia to Manchuria in the east.
18. Akbar (1542-1605)—emperor of the Mughal Empire—developed a new religion he called Din-I Ilahi, or 'The Religion of God,' which he hoped would synthesize the world's religions into a single religion.What was the main religious influence of Akbar's new religion?
19. Under which dynasty did the Maritime Silk Road originate?
20. The Roman craze for Chinese silk led the Senate to issue several edicts that did which of the following?
21. Which empire was the first to acquire the secret of silk manufacture from the Chinese in 553-554?
22. Who was Zhang Qian?
23. Which of the following statements does NOT describe the Han empire?
24. Buddhism reached its apogee during the Tang dynasty.During this period, were other religions tolerated?
25. One of the best accounts of the western half of the Silk Road was written in the 15th century by an ambassador to Tamerlane by King Henry II of Castile and Leon in Spain.What was his name?

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