INDIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIACHAPTER 11.4

INDIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA- SEC.4

India after the Guptas

Split amongst Buddhists in India

Theravada: Traditional Buddhism

Mahayana: Buddha is divine; nirvana = heaven

Eastward Expansion of Islam

Islam successfully expands into India due to political disunity in India

when it arrived

EASTWARD EXPANSION OF ISLAM

Powerful Muslim state is created in northern India (1200 CE) called the

Delhi Sultanate

Islam spreads further into India

Delhi Sultanate repels Mongols

Timur Lenk invades Delhi

Loots the city and captures slaves

Executes 100,000 prisoners

Timur captures Mesopotamia and wreaks havoc in the Indian

subcontinent

INDIAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Relationship between Muslim leaders and native Hindus was

poor

Muslims encouraged conversion to Islam

Muslim rulers in India maintained separation between them and

Hindus

Forcibly imposed many Muslim customs on Hindu society

King owns all land in the state

Hindu farmers pay money to landlord

INDIAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE

India is center of trade between Southwest Asia and East

Asia

Receive variety of goods and ideas

Architecture and prose literature become two

important creative fields

FORMATION OF STATES

Southeast Asia developed in separate, distinct cultures because of

geographical barriers

FORMATION OF STATES

Vietnam

Vietnam conquered and controlled by China for 800 years (~100 CE -900 CE)

Vietnamese refuse to assimilate; eventually overthrow Chinese rule

Newly freed, they establish their own kingdom: Dai Viet

Borrowed heavily from China

Civil Service exam

Confucianism

Emperor