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Harsha?
- Buddhist
- Generous to other faiths
- Kind, built hospitals and distributed wealth
- High reputation
- Temporarily restored unified rule, but not permanantly
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Mahmud of Ghazi?
- leader of turks in Afghanistan
- 17 expeditions
- annexed several states in northwestern India
- intolerant to other religions
- Demolished Buddhist and Hindu faiths
- Established mosques and Islamic shrines
- Developed into Sultunate of Delphi
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Shankara?
- southern Indian devotee of Shiva
- harmonized Hindu into a single consistent system
- worshipper of Shiva
- disciplined logical reasoning, not emotion
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Ramanuja?
- Devotee of Vishnu
- Challenged Shankara's uncompromising insistence on logic
- Brahmin philosopher from Southern India
- Intellectual understanding of Ultimate reality was less important then personal union or devotion
- Followed Bhagavad Gita- devotion to Vishnu
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Guru Kabir?
- Blind weaver
- Most famous, Bhakti teacher
- taught Shiva, Vishnu, Allah= one diety
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Cosmos Indicopleustes?
Christian monk from Egypt
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Gupta Kingdom:
- Decline due to nomadic invaders (like Han and Roman Empire)
- Turkish Mughals took over dividing until 16th century: Northern India and Southern India
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Northern India
- turbulent politics
- local states
- constant tension among regional kingdoms
- nomadic Turks pushed way into society
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Southern India
- small loosley admin. states
- escaped disastourous stateline north was in
- less conflict
- politically divided, but relative peaceful
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Harsha Kingdom
- centralized imperial rule restored
- unified rule in Northern India
- Decline:Local rulers established authority, Harsha assasined and no heir
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Sind
- Indus River valley in Northwestern India
- Conquered by Arab Muslims as expanding Umayyad empire
- Muslim Merchants formed communities in all major coastal regions of India
- Migration and invasion of Turkish speaking peoples from central Asia
- Brought Islam to India
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Sulktanate of Delphi
- Capital= Delphi
- Decentralized
- Ruled at least 3 centuries
- secure place of faith in India
- Greatest expansion of Muslim in India
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Chola Kingdom
- conquerd Ceylon at high point
- Larger Kingdom
- Not tight centralized state
- local autonomy strong
- Navy dominated waters in South China to Arabian Sea
- Decline: Revolts erupted, did not collapse, but decreased in size, expolsion of Chola officials
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Buzurg ibn Shahriyar
- Shipmaster
- Wrote The Book of Wonders of India
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Government India
- flourished due to cultural aspects
- not large scale centralized states
- isolated large kingdoms in North and South
- small regional kingdoms + autonomy states
- Gupta, Delphi Sultanate, Chola, Vijayanagar= decentralized
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South=?
North=?
- South= Hindu
- North= Islam
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Hindu Temples
- Social and economic centers
- School
- Large land, employed people
- Temple admin. maintained order
- Delivered taxes
- Served as bankers
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Buddhism + Jainism =
Hinduism + Islam =
- Buddhism + Jainism = decline
- Hinduism + Islam = dominated in India
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Kingdom of Vijayanagar
- 2nd state dominated much of southern India
- Northern Deccan
- Did not create hostility between Muslims and Hindus
- Renounced Islam in 1336 and returned to Hindu faith
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Kingdom of Axum
- Christian Empire
- Resisted pressures from Islam
- controlled Adulis = most prominent port of Red Sea
- Maintained independence
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Angkor
- capital city= Angkor Thorn
- influence of Indian tradition
- city= microcosmic reflection of Hindu world over
- Buddhism in 12th and 13th century
- largest kingdo in southeast Asia
- Melaka= private state, then a legitamate state, Islamic state
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cambay
most important trading port in India
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Monsoons
- rains in spring and summer
- irrigation was crucial
- southwest= warm and rain
- northwest= winter and fall
- no rivers in the south
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North=
South=
- N= war, wet
- S= economic growth, irrigation needed due to dry weather
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Dhows=
Junks=
- Ships in Indian Ocean...
- D= India, Persia, Arab
- J= China
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Migration of Islam put pressure on trade. T or F
True
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Jati
- subcastes
- powerful guilds of merchants
- caste becomes basis of social organization in southern India
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Indian Influence of Southeast Asia
- brought faith
- adapted some indian political tradition
- states sponsered hinduism and Buddhism
- showed no interest in indian caste system
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Funan
- adopted Hinduism
- first state known to reflect indian influence
- sanskrit= language
- Decline: power struggle, nothern people migrated and overwhelmed
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Sririjaya
- island of sumatra
- powerful navy + controlled commerce
- Chola Kingdom lead to decline
- levied taxes on ships
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Bhakati Movements
- spread to north
- syncretism
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