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question 67

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions:
-nomads

• A)Groups of people who move from place to place in search of food, water, and pasture for their animals, usually following the seasons.
• B)Grasslands that are too dry for crops but support pasturing animals; they are common across much of the center of Eurasia.
• C)Tents in which the pastoral nomads lived; they could be quickly dismantled and loaded onto animals or carts.
• D)The title given to the Mongol ruler Temujin in 1206; it means Great Ruler.
• E)The states ruled by a khan; the four units into which Chinggis divided the Mongol Empire.
• F)Assigning the collection of taxes to whoever bids the most for the privilege.
• G)The Muslim classification used for Hindus, Christians, and Jews; they were allowed to follow their religions but had to pay a special tax.
• H)The thousands of Indian castes.
• I)A practice whereby a high-caste Hindu woman would throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
• J)India's classical literary language.
• K)A maritime empire that held the Strait of Malacca and the waters around Sumatra and adjacent islands.

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