Chapter 15 - India and Indian Ocean Basin

The first southeast Asian state to reflect Indian influence was centered on its capital port city of Oc Eo. What was its name?

• Majapahit
• Melaka
• Funan
• Srivijaya

The scholarly Buddhist emperor who reunited northern India in the seventh century was

• Harsha
• Ashoka
• Mahmud of Ghazni
• Shankara

The bhakti movement

• never caught on in India as it had in China
• sought to erase the distinction between Hinduism and Islam
• appealed to Indians who were stifled by the strictly monotheistic views of Hinduism
• tried to find god through a strictly rationalistic pursuit of the divine

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

An invasion in 451 C.E. by the White Huns began the collapse of the

• Gupta dynasty
• Mauryan dynasty
• Byzantine empire
• Han dynasty

The kingdoms of southern India were mainly

• Islamic
• Buddhist
• Hindu
• Sikh

The temples of Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat were built by the rulers of what kingdom?

• Majapahit
• Srivijaya
• Funan
• Khmer

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

The Islamic ruler who led seventeen different raiding expeditions into India in the eleventh century was

• Mahmud of Ghazni
• Ramanuja
• Harihara
• Abu Bakr

In regard to political structure, post-classical India

• rivaled Tang China in respect to size and administrative brilliance
• copied the Chinese model after being conquered by the Tang
• was most influenced by Byzantium
• developed no single centralized imperial authority