1.2-3 Developments in Dar al-Islam and South/Southeast Asia

The emergence of new Islamic political entities after 1200 CE was the result of

• the fragmentation of the Abbasid Caliphate

• the split between Sunni and Shia Muslims

• the mass conversion of Hindus in India to Islam

• the fall of the Roman Empire

Most of the new Islamic states that emerged after 1200 were dominated by _______ peoples.

• Arab

• Persian

• Turkic

• Sinhalese

Choose all of the ways that Islam expanded after 1200.

• The activities of merchants

• Military expansion

• The efforts of Islamic monks

• Sufi missionaries

Muslim states and empires encouraged significant intellectual innovations such as

• advances in mathematics and medicine

• gunpowder and the printing press

• the promotion of Hindu and Confucian philosophy

• the invention of aqueducts and irrigation

Muslim states and empires transferred knowledge about ___________ to Europe through cross-cultural interactions in places such as Spain.

• Greek philosophy

• Chinese medicine

• Indian architecture

• Russian science

Contact between India and Southeast Asia after 1200 led to

• the creation of Hindu and Buddhist states

• the spread of Confucianism to Southeast Asia

• the growth of the Trans-Saharan trade

• the Christianization of India

Which of the following is an example of how Hinduism continued to shape society in South Asia after 1200?

• The Bhakti movement

• monasticism

• The Delhi Sultanate

• Sufism