CHAPTER 9



CHAPTER 9

THE EXPANSION OF CIVILIZATION IN SOUTHERN ASIA

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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. Therevada

2. Mahayana

C. The Decline of Buddhism in India

II. The Arrival of Islam

A. The Empire of Mahmud of Ghazni

B. The Delhi Sultanate

C. Tamerlane

III. Society and Culture

A. Religion

B. Economy and Daily Life

1. Agriculture

2. Foreign Trade

C. The Wonder of Indian Culture

1. Art and Architecture

2. Literature

3. Music

III. 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

IV. Conclusion 

Learning Objectives

In this chapter, students will focus on:

• Some of the chief destinations of the Silk Road, and the kinds of products and ideas that traveled along the route

• How Buddhism changed in the centuries after Siddartha Gautama’s death, and why its popularity ultimately declined in India

• The impact of Muslim rule on Indian society, and to what degree the indigenous population converted to the new religion and why

• The most important cultural achievements of Indian civilization in the era between the Mauryas and the Mughals

• The main characteristics of Southeast Asian social and economic life, culture and religion before 1500 C.E.

• The factors that caused the spread of new religions into southern Asia, some of the changes that took place as a result of the introduction of these new faiths, and the effects on the religions themselves by their spread into new regions

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