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The 16th century novel Journey to the West fictionalized the travels of which priest?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Buddhist traveller journeyed from Korea to India along the Silk Road?Read the answer and worked solution →The Buddhist movement was the first large-scale movement of which kind in world religions?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did merchants support Buddhist monasteries along the Silk Road?Read the answer and worked solution →On the Silk Road, Christianity was primarily known by which name?Read the answer and worked solution →Which art style shows the mixing of Greek and Indian elements on the Silk Road?Read the answer and worked solution →Scholars think the Buddha was first shown in human form in which period?Read the answer and worked solution →Which blue stone with golden specks was ground into powder for paint?Read the answer and worked solution →After Rome conquered which land in 30 BCE did East-West trade bloom?Read the answer and worked solution →Roman-style glassware found at Gyeongju shows Roman goods reached which peninsula?Read the answer and worked solution →Which modern Chinese infrastructure project is among those called a New Silk Road?Read the answer and worked solution →Approximately how long was the Silk Road on land?Read the answer and worked solution →The Silk Road network was active from the second century BCE until when?Read the answer and worked solution →Why do some historians prefer the term Silk Routes?Read the answer and worked solution →Tang histories used the name Fu-lin for which empire?Read the answer and worked solution →From 1700 to 1765 the export of Persian silk was entirely conducted by which people?Read the answer and worked solution →The collapse of which empire in the 1720s disrupted the silk trade?Read the answer and worked solution →The rise in direct sea trade between Egypt and India shows sailors knew which seasonal winds?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Greek navigator started Indo-Roman sea trade in 130 BC?Read the answer and worked solution →By the time of Augustus, about how many ships sailed yearly from Myos Hormos to India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Roman writer complained that gold was draining away to India, China and Arabia?Read the answer and worked solution →Muziris, a major port trading with Rome, belonged to which Tamil kingdom?Read the answer and worked solution →Which modern city in Gujarat corresponds to the ancient port Barygaza?Read the answer and worked solution →The ancient port of Barbaricum corresponds to which modern city?Read the answer and worked solution →Roman pottery found near Pondicherry showed which site was a trading station?Read the answer and worked solution →Traders from Rome are mentioned in which Tamil literature of India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Indian empire benefited from Indo-Roman trade but was damaged by the Alchon Huns?Read the answer and worked solution →After Roman trade ended, Tamil-speaking south India turned to which region for trade?Read the answer and worked solution →Which African kingdom in the Indian Ocean trade was influenced by Roman culture and Indian architecture?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The 16th century novel Journey to the West fictionalized the travels of which priest?

  1. Xuanzang
  2. Fa-hsien
  3. Hyecho
  4. Zhang Qian
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Correct answer: A. Xuanzang

1. The novel is a fantasy adventure about trials with demons. 2. It fictionalized the travels of the priest Xuanzang. 3. Fa-hsien, Hyecho and Zhang Qian are not its subject. _Source: Wikipedia, Silk Road, Transmission of Buddhism_

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Which Buddhist traveller journeyed from Korea to India along the Silk Road?

  1. Xuanzang
  2. Hyecho
  3. Fa-hsien
  4. Zhang Qian
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Correct answer: B. Hyecho

1. Several pilgrims went to India for original scriptures. 2. Hyecho is the one who travelled from Korea to India. 3. Xuanzang and Fa-hsien were Chinese, and Zhang Qian was a Han envoy. _Source: Wikipedia, Silk Road, Transmission of Buddhism_

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The Buddhist movement was the first large-scale movement of which kind in world religions?

  1. Pilgrimage movement
  2. Reform movement
  3. Missionary movement
  4. Printing movement
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Correct answer: C. Missionary movement

1. Buddhist monks spread the Buddha's ideas beyond India. 2. The movement is called the first large-scale missionary movement in the history of world religions. 3. It was not mainly a reform, printing or pilgrimage movement. _Source: Wikipedia, Silk Road, Transmission of Buddhism_

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