Severe nomadic
pressures
Gupta ends
16th c. Muhgals
Come in and
Assert authority
Quest for
Centralized
Imperial Rule
Guptas
India
Harsha
Decline
N. & S.
Differences
North
Politically
Turbulent and
Tense
Momentarily
Created stability
In N. India
No centralized rule
Local rulers in
charge
Good leader
Tolerant of
Religion, giving,
scholarly
Assassinated,
No heir
1. Name 3 qualities that make a good leader. Why, in your opinion are these
Good qualities?
2. What made Harsha a good leader? But why couldn’t he maintain control
Of Northern India?
Introduction of Islam
to N. India
Militarily
India under
Muslim
Control for
A time
Islam into
India
Merchants
Both in N.
And S.
India
Migration
& invasion
Mahmud
Ghazi
Turkish Leader
Turks from
C. Asia
More
accepting
Several raiding
expeditions
Created
Small
Communities,
Married women
Not for land
But wealth
3. What 3 ways did Islam come
Into India?
Sultanate of
Delhi
5. Why do you
Think Islam’s
Sultanate of
Delhi was not
Prominent in the Islamic World
Able to expand
Beyond it’s
Boundaries?
Est. by successor
Of Mahmud
Did not extend beyond Delhi
Destroyed
Buddhist &
Hindu sites, and
Built mosques
No real strength in
Terms of bureaucracy
& administration
Huge role in est. Islam
In Bengal region
4. What was Ghazi’s main
purpose?
Agriculture
Monsoons
Summer
=
Rainfall
=
Good crops
Irrigation
Systems
Production in Trade in
Indian Ocean Basin
Population
Growth
No natural 600ce 53mWater source 1500ce 105m
Dams,
Canals,
resevoirs
6. How did monsoons
Help lead to
Population growth?
Trade &
Economic
Development
Kingdom
of Axum
Cross cultural trade in Indian
Ocean Basin
Political &
Economic
Developments
Prominently
Christian in
Ethiopia
Larger ships Creation
Failed
Of
Created to
Most regions Hundreds
Islamic
Specialized
Withstand
Of Hindu
In India
Products:cotton attempts
Monsoon
Temples
Were selfRyhthmns: Sugar refining,
sufficient
Leather tanning.
Used silk roads Dhows (India
Persia, Arab)
& sea lanes
Axum is still
Junks (Chinese
1.Agricultural
Successful due
Song Dynasty)
activities.
Commodities
To trade in
& Specialized 2. Irrigation
Indian Ocean
8. How did the
systems
Crops had to
Basin & Mediterranean
3. Boys Schooling Indian Ocean
Be traded
sea
4. Banker
w/in
Basin promote
Emporia:
Clearinghouses
Of India Ocean
Basin
Commercial (trade)
Practices with Asia?
7. How did Hindu
Temples effect the Indian
Economy?
Promoted economic
Development thru
Production & trade
Temple/guild
relationships
9. Even with no
Christian influence
Around them why
Do you think Axum
Was able to
Maintain Christianity
In its realm?
Production in Trade in
Indian Ocean Basin
Caste Society
Adapted to
Migrants
(codes of conduct)
Jati
Political &
Economic
Influences
Geography
N. To S. Through
Commercial Developments
Guilds, Brahmins
10. Why do you think the Caste system has been able
To exist from its early development to 12th century?
Buddhism
Decline due to
External attacks
The Meeting of Hindu &
Islamic Traditions
Devotional Cults
Particularly
Vishnu (preserver of
The world) & Shiva (fertility
& destructive)
Promised
Salvation
Honored
Deities
Associated
w/Vishnu
& Shiva
Hope to
Bring more
Mystic union
w/gods
Shankara
Devotee
Of Shiva
Philosophy
Based on
Reason &
metaphysics
Islam & its
appeal
Guru Kabir
Vishnu,
Conversion
Sufis
Bhakti
Allah,
To improve
Movement
Shiva
Position &
Said all
Escape
Devotee
One deity
discrimination Helped
Of Vishnu
w/converts Combo
Of
Hinduism
Personal
& Islam
Focus more
Union w/
On personal,
deity
Emotional,
12. What’s more
Devotional
Important that you
Approach
Bliss from
Than on
Believe in a religion
Salvation
doctrine
Or you follow its
& identification
Doctrine?
Of indiv. w/gods
Ramanuja
11. What is more important
Moving beyond reality or waiting
To be saved?
Helped those
Find
Comfort &
meaning
The Influence of Indian
Society in SE Asia
SE Asia
Familiar
w/Indian
Politics &
tradition
The State of
SE Asia
Funan
Angkor
Srivijaya
Adopts
Indian
Political
Political,
Org. (Kingships)
Ramayana &
Cultural
& Religious faiths
Mahabharata Religious
(Hinduism, Buddhism) (Hindu Values) traditions
Literature
Arrival of Islam
Naval
Based &
Buddhist
13. How did India effect the area of SE Asia?
Indian
Traditions,
Microcosm
Of Hindu
Merchant
Attracted
Other elites,
traders
Sufis
Melaka state
Sponsored
Islamic Faith
Welcome
Sufis, theologian,
missionaries
14. How did Islam effect
The area of SE Asia?