CHAPTER 11 THE GROWTH AND SPREAD OF ASIAN CULTURE BEFORE AND AFTER THE MONGOL CONQUEST

India’s Politics and Culture Gupta Art and Literature Gupta Scholarship and Science New Political Configurations Muslims in India

Chinese Continuity Before the Tang Dynasty Political Developments Under the Rising Tang Dynasty, Tang Economic and Social Changes Tang Culture

Chinese Continuity: Tang Decline Political Developments During the Song Era, Song Economic and Social Conditions Song Philosophy, Literature and Art

Korea: Three Kingdoms to One

Emergence of Japan in East Asia Geographical, Ethnic, and Historical Backgrounds The Taika Reforms: Monarchy with Bureaucracy A Time of Splendor: The Heian Politics of Consorts and Samurai, The Kamakura Shogunate

The Mongol Impact Nomads of Central Asia Formation of the Mongol Empire The Mongol Imperial Structure China Under the Mongols Pax Mongolica: Relinking East and West The Mongol Legacy

YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND The Gupta Empire in India with its remarkable science, literature, and influence on other parts of Asia. The Muslim invasions of India that led to the powerful Delhi Sultanate, which was destroyed by Tamerlane.

YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND The T'ang and Sung dynasties with their effective governments, skilled poets and artists, and religious philosophers. The Mongol Empire whose military might imposed a Pax Mongolica through Asia from China to the Danube River.

YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND The buildup of a Japanese imperial state out of a competing group of clans, the decline of that form of government, and the emergence of a new structure embodied in the Kamakura Shogunate.