Ch 16 - South and Southeast Asia in the Postclassical

The largest religious structure in the premodern world, construction began on this temple located in modern Cambodia in the early 1100s C.E. It was built to express a Hindu understanding of the cosmos, centered on a mythical Mt Meru, the home of the gods in Hindu tradition.

• Angkor Wat
• Borobudur

Mahmud Ghazni did not establish his rule in India

• true
• false

Mahmud of Ghazni's main inspiration for visiting India in the eleventh century was to

• spread Islam
• visit important Buddhist temples
• build a centralized state based on a Persian model
• plunder

The kingdoms of southern India were mainly

• Islamic
• Buddhist
• Hindu
• Sikh

The biggest difference between Melaka and the other states influenced by India was that Melaka 

• A. played a role in sea trade, while the other states relied on land trade
• became predominantly Islamic
• started out as mainly Islamic but later converted to Buddhism
• built a large, centralized land empire

Hindu temples

• were never able to compete with the strong Buddhist temples of northern India
• held southern India back economically because of the Hindu law against lending money.
• disappeared in southern India because of the prominence of Islam.
• played an important role in the agricultural and financial development of southern India

The wealthy trading state that controlled southern India from 850 through 1267 was the

• Chola kingdom
• Vijayanagar kingdom
• kingdom of Funan.
• kingdom of Angkor

Which of the following states was most heavily influenced by Islam?

• Vijayanagar
• Melaka
• Angkor
• Funan

Which of the following Indian concepts did NOT become popular in the southeast Asian states influenced by India

• Hinduism
• the caste system
• conducting official business in Sanskrit
• literary classics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata

The design of the Khmer temples at Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat show

• the influence of both Hindu and Buddhist traditions
• the growing influence of Islam
• a definite influence from the Tang dynasty
• Confucian influence