Author Question: A significant reason the Rajput could not expel the Arabic forces from India was a. a lack of ... (Read 50 times)

MGLQZ · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

A significant reason the Rajput could not expel the Arabic forces from India was

a. a lack of political cohesion and one true leader.
b. their dependence on elephants for warfare compared to horses.
c. the Islamic forces had gunpowder obtained from China.
d. there were very few natural geographic defenses in the Deccan plateau.
e. the Rajput had no defenses against the modern tactic of siege warfare.

Question 2

The more long-lasting effect of Islam's arrival in India occurred with the arrival of

a. Islamic merchants in the eighth century.
b. Arabic armies which forced conversion to Islam of conquored populations.
c. the Mongols in the twelfth century.
d. Turkic-speaking Muslims in the tenth-eleventh centuries.
e. Christian Crusaders in the fourteenth century.