Merchants in southern post-classical India

Merchants in southern post-classical India 

A. would have been severely threatened by monsoon winds as their ships were not stable for Indian Ocean travel
B. were heavily taxed by Muslim overlords in Delhi which halted their expansion into Africa
C. were very acquainted with local temples as they were the source of banking and finance.
D. did not venture out from India because the Chinese and Europeans came to them.
E. had a very successful system of bartering so a money system never developed.

Answer: C

Which of the following practices was common to the Aztec and the Inca empires?

Which of the following practices was common to the Aztec and the Inca empires?

A. Extensive use of sacrifice
B. A tribute system
C. A merchant class
D. A writing system
E. The quipu system

Answer: B

Christian's' devotion to saints was very much like

Christian's' devotion to saints was very much like

A. the Bantu people's devotion to the creator god
B. Buddhists' devotion to Bodhisattvas
C. Muslim's' devotion to Mecca
D. the Jews' devotion to the Torah
E. all of the above

Answer: B

Which of the following societies' gender roles was overall the most constrictive and gave the greatest amount of freedom and rights to women?

Which of the following societies' gender roles was overall the most constrictive and gave the greatest amount of freedom and rights to women?

A. India
B. China
C. Maya
D. Greece
E. Rome

Answer: C

"Their men show no signs of jealousy whatever; no one claims descent from his father, but on the contrary from his mother's brother. A person's heirs are his sister's sons, not his own sons." (Ibn Battuta) This is a description of

"Their men show no signs of jealousy whatever; no one claims descent from his father, but on the contrary from his mother's brother. A person's heirs are his sister's sons, not his own sons." (Ibn Battuta) This is a description of

A. patriarchy
B. infanticide
C. matrilineal descent
D. independent origin
E. marriage dowers

Answer: C

Which of the following was a source of Western dynamism in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?

Which of the following was a source of Western dynamism in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?

A. The growing dominance of the Holy Roman Empire
B. Two centuries of peace among the major nations
C. The absence of epidemic disease
D. The growth of cities and urban economies
E. The Catholic Church's drive to reform

Answer: D