1. Cynthia Otero 2018 Chapter 11 Civilizations of East Asia, 200-1500
Lesson 4 India & Southeast Asia
Cynthia Otero 2018

2. Social:India
Muslim leaders tried to maintain a strict separation between muslim ruling class & the hindu's population.
Hinduism & buddhism, muslim wanted to encourage people to convert islam.
Overall the interactions between muslim and hindus were these between conquerors conquered, a relationship marked by dislike rather than understanding.
Between 500 and 1500 most Indians lived on the lands and farmed their own tiny plots.Peasants paid a shore of their harvest each year to a landlord,who in turn sent part of the payment to the social ruler.
Although the vast majority of Inidians were peasants,reports by foreign visitors between indicate that many people lived in the cities.It was here where the landed elites and rich merchants lived.Rulers naturally had the most wealth

3. Social:Southeast Asia
-People live in the river valleys were often cut off from one another and had only limited contact with people living on the mountains.
At the top of the social ladder in most Southeast Asian societies were the hereditary aristocrats. They held both political power and economic wealth. Most aristocrats lived in the major cities.
The vast majority of the people were of Malay background, but the peoples were divided into many separate communities.
After the Muslim conquest of northern India, Muslim merchants—either Arabs or Indian converts—settled in port cities in the region and began to convert the local population. Around 1400, an Islamic state began to form in Melaka
From Melaka, Muslim traders and the Muslim faith moved into the interior of the peninsula. Eventually, almost the entire population of the region was converted to Islam and became part of the sultanate of Melaka.

4. Resistance against these advances into northern India was led by the Rajputs, who were Hindu warriors. They fought bravely, but their infantry supported by elephants.
Near the end of the century, a new military force crossed the Indus River from the northwest. These invaders, of mixed Mongol and Turkish heritage, raided the capital of Delhi. As many as 100,000 Hindu prisoners were massacred before the gates of the city. It was India's first meeting with Timur Lenk
Timur launched a program of conquest, bringing much of Central Asia under his control and briefly invading India.
Political:India
People did not always agree on the meaning of the Buddha's teachings, resulting in a split among Buddhists in India
A controversy between people who believed in Hinduism & Buddhism.
When the founder of the new state died in 997, his son, Mahmūd of Ghazna, succeeded him. Mahmūd, an ambitious man, began to attack neighboring Hindu kingdoms to the southeast.
Babur, a descendant of Timur Lenk on his father’s side and the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan on his mother’s side, conquered northern India and established the Mogul Empire, an Islamic state

5. Political:Southeast Asia
Adopted confucianism ,the kingdom of Angkor arose in the region that is present-day Cambodia. The kingdom was formed when a powerful figure named Jayavarman united the Khmer people and established a capital at Angkor Thom. In 802, Jayavarman was crowned as god-king of his people.
In 1432, the Thai from the north destroyed the Angkor capital. The Angkor ruling class fled to the southeast, where they set up a new capital.Beginning in the eleventh or twelfth century, Thai groups began moving southward. This process was encouraged by the Mongol invasion of China in the mid-1200s. After destroying the Angkor capital.
Borrowed Indian political practices, they created a unique blend that evolved into the modern-day culture of Thailand.
The Burmese were pastoral peoples, but they adopted farming soon after their arrival in Southeast Asia.
Political:Southeast Asia
Geographical barriers might help explain why Southeast Asia was never unified under a single government.
After the Chinese finally conquered Vietnam in 111 b.c. , they tried for centuries to make Vietnam part of China. However, Chinese officials were often frustrated by the Vietnamese.
In the tenth century, they finally overthrew Chinese rule. Chinese influence remained, however. Vietnamese rulers realized the advantages of taking over the Chinese model of centralized government.

6. Interactions between the humans and the environment:India
The people of the Indus River Valley used their river effectively, building their cities on raised areas to minimize the impact of flooding on the people.
India has an abundance of spices,gems,and cotton .

7. Interactions between humans and the environment:Southeast Asia
Minerals,metals and rainforest timber are the most valuable resources and provide important sources of income.
In some parts of Southeast Asia , pollution extends into rural areas it's a major problem that's destroying the economy.Such as the dumping of toxic wastes .
A key for successful resource management is sustainable development .

8. This was Mahayana, "the Great Vehicle
This was Mahayana, "the Great Vehicle." Not strictly a school but rather a way of understanding the Buddha and his path, the Mahayana perspective was broad and embracing. Where Theravada and other similar schools held that only the solitary monk could successfully pursue nirvana.
Mahayana Buddhists taught that the way to enlightenment was open to everyone.
In the process, they produced fresh interpretations and generated new practices— including devotional rituals—that extended beyond those supported by the more austere Theravada.
These and other Hindu temples were considered to be dwelling places of the divinities and images of the entire universe.
The use of prose in fiction was well established in India by the sixth and seventh centuries.
Cultural:India
One group believed that they were following the original teachings of the Buddha. They called themselves the school of Theravada, "the teachings of the elders." This school insists that an understanding of oneself is the chief way to gain nirvana, or release from the "wheel of life." Theravada stressed transforming oneself through moral conduct and meditation.
Hindu religious architecture in India developed from modest temples built of perishable materials like wood and brick to increasingly grand and complex structures of stone.

9. Cultural:Southeast Asia
Most of the societies in Southeast Asia gave greater rights to women than did their counterparts in China and India. Women worked side by side with men in the fields and often played an active role in trading activities.
In many other areas of Southeast Asia, Indian cultural influence prevailed. The most visible example of this influence was in architecture, and the most famous and beautiful temple is Angkor Wat. Its architectural techniques demonstrate the ideals and principles of its culture.
Monks, merchants, and cultural influence from India spread Hinduism and Buddhist ideas into Southeast Asia in the first millennium A.D. In all Southeast Asian societies, as in China and Japan, old beliefs were blended with those of the new faiths. Buddhism also spread to Southeast Asia. Monks spread Theravada Buddhism in Burma in the eleventh century. From Burma, Theravada spread rapidly to other areas of Southeast Asia.

10. Economic:India
Agriculture was not the only source of wealth in India. Since ancient times, India's location had made it a center for trade between Southwest Asia and East Asia. It was also a source for other goods shipped throughout the world.
Internal trade within India probably declined during this period, primarily because of the fighting among the many states of India.
However, the level of foreign trade remained high, especially in the south and along the northwestern coast. Both areas were located along the traditional trade routes to Southwest Asia and the Mediterranean Sea region.
Between 500 and 1500, Indian artists and writers built on the achievements of their predecessors while making innovations in all fields of creative endeavor, both secular and religious. Here, we examine two such fields: architecture and prose literature
The use of prose in fiction was well established in India by the sixth and seventh centuries.

11. Economic:Southeast Asia
Vietnamese introduced the civil service examination as a means of recruiting government officials on the basis of merit instead of heredity.
The Burmese were pastoral peoples, but they adopted farming soon after their arrival in Southeast Asia.
During the next two centuries, Pagan became a major force in the western part of Southeast Asia. It played an active role in regional sea trade.
In the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian archipelago, a different pattern emerged. For centuries, this area had been tied to the trade that passed from East Asia into the Indian Ocean.
agricultural societies, whose economies were largely based on farming, and trading societies, which depended primarily on trade for income. States such as Vietnam, Angkor, and Pagan drew most of their wealth from the land. Others, such as the sultanate of Melaka, supported themselves chiefly through trade.
Trade through Southeast Asia expanded after the emergence of states in the area and reached even greater heights after the Muslim conquest of northern India. The rise in demand for spices also added to the growing volume of trade. As the wealth of Europe and Southeast Asia increased, demand grew for the products of East Asia.