Chapter 18 quizEmpires of Asia

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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the correct answer and next to it, write the page number where you found it.

1. Suleiman I can best be described as ____________ A) a heroic military commander. B) a skillful administrator. C) a patron of the arts. D) all of the above 2. The rulers of Safavid Persia, who were Muslim, ____________ A) were bitter foes of the Ottoman Turks. B) were willing to accept Christian missionaries. C) did not require their subjects to accept the Shiite form of Islam. D) believed in the separation of religion and politics. 3. The beginning of the Ming dynasty marked ____________ A) the invasion of the Manchus from Manchuria. B) an expansion of trade with Europeans. C) the overthrow of Mongol rule. D) the introduction of Muslim rule. 4. When China was successfully invaded by the Manchus it had been weakened by ____________ A) money spent on shipping and foreign trade. B) religious mysticism among the leaders. C) lavish spending on the court rather than the military. D) all of the above 5. The use of the phrase "the great sword hunt" in Japan referred to ____________ A) an incident in an early Japanese novel. B) efforts to disarm the peasants. C) rules of etiquette in the Japanese court. D) the shogun's control of the daimyos.

6. Which statement is true of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan?

A) The metsuke took over the day-to-day rule of the country. B) Geishas were the only women allowed to keep weapons. C) The daimyos were allowed to be independent of the emperor. D) No person could change his or her social class. 7. As part of the Japanese Act of Seclusion, ____________ A) no Japanese could leave the country. B) the emperor could not be disturbed on penalty of death. C) no one was allowed to speak to visiting Europeans. D) all of the above 8. A result of the Portuguese spice trade was ____________ A) an ongoing effort to spread Catholicism. B) the building of many new trading posts in Southeast Asia. C) conflict with Muslim traders. D) all of the above 9. The real reason the French returned to Southeast Asia in 1858 was ____________ A) their desire to control Indochina's resources. B) to protect Christians from being forced to be animists. C) to seize control from their enemy, the Dutch. D) their desire to take over the spice trade. 10. Siam's King Mongkut protected the country from Western nations by ____________ A) allying himself with the Burmese to fight any invaders. B) allowing those nations to compete for commercial opportunities. C) denying any opportunities for Western influences to reach Siam. D) setting up a buffer zone in neighboring Burma.