Ch. 15- Buckman

Question 0

Who was Shiva? -Ryan

Answer 0

an important deity; God of fertility and destruction

Question 1

Who was Vishnu? -Ryan

Answer 1

an important deity; preserver of the world

Question 2

Why did Hindus embrace devotional cults? -Ryan

Answer 2

They believed that they would provide salvation.

Question 3

Where did devotional cults become popular? -Ryan

Answer 3

Southern India

Question 4

How did Hinduism popularity increase? -Ryan

Answer 4

The decline of Buddhism and increasing popularity of devotional cults.

Question 6

Which people came into India and established the caste system?

Answer 6

The Turks

-Jack Livingston

Question 7

What did not attract much immediate interest among Indians when it arrived in the subcontinent.

Answer 7

Islamic faith

Question 8

Why did circumstances not favor the adoption of Islamic faith.

Answer 8

It often arrived in the cultural baggage of conquering peoples.

Question 9

Muslim conquerors generally reserved important political and military positions for their…?

Answer 9

Arab, Persian, and Turkish companions.

Question 10

By 1500 c.e. Indian Muslims numbered perhaps..?

Answer 10

Twenty-five million

Question 11

Hindus rarely improved their social standing by conversion. True or False?

Answer 11

True