Chapter 9

Chapter 9

The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia

Chapter Outline

• I. The Silk Road

• II. India After the Mauryas

  • A. The Gupta Dynasty: A New Golden Age?

  • B. The Transformation of Buddhism

    • 1. Theravada

    • 2. Mahayana

  • C. The Decline of Buddhism in India

  • D. When Did the Indians Become Hindus?

• III. The Arrival of Islam

  • A. The Empire of Mahmud of Ghazni

  • B. The Delhi Sultanate

  • C. Tamerlane

• IV. Society and Culture

  • A. Religion

    • 1. Class and Caste

  • B. Economy and Daily Life

    • 1. Agriculture

    • 2. Foreign Trade

    • 3. Science and Technology

  • C. The Wonder of Indian Culture

    • 1. Art and Architecture

    • 2. Literature

    • 3. Music

• V. The Golden Region: Early Southeast Asia

  • A. Paddy Fields and Spices: The States of Southeast Asia

    • 1. The Mainland States

    • 2. The Malay World

    • 3. The Role of India

  • B. Daily Life

    • 1. Social Structures

    • 2. Women and the Family

  • C. World of the Spirits: Religious Belief

  • D. Expansion into the Pacific

1. Sikhism

2. Muslim customs adopted by Hindus

3. Majority of what class of Hindus converted to Islam?

4. Decline in medieval Indian manufacturing and commercial activity?

5. most important artistic contributions of medieval Indian culture

6. 2 major geographic components of SE Asia

7. To what did the new states of SE Asia assimilate?

8. Social structure in SE Asia

9. SE Asian women compared to other Asian women

10. Indonesian archipelago depended on what?

Vocab

1. bhakti

2. puja

3. purdah

4. bodhisattva

5. Hinayana

6. Hinduism

7. Mahayana

8. Malayo-Polynesian

9. Theravada