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1 | Chapter 6 India and Southeast Asia. | 25 | air. It weighs about 50 tons, making its |
1500 B.C.E – 600 C.E. | erection a remarkable feat of engineering. | ||
2 | The Indian Subcontinent. India has | Like other Ashokan pillars, it is | |
three topographical zones (1) the northern | inscribed with accounts of Ashoka's | ||
mountainous zone (2) the Indus and Ganges | political achievements and instructions to | ||
Basins (3) the peninsula. | his subjects on proper behavior. These | ||
3 | The peninsula itself includes further | pillars are the earliest extant examples | |
topographical sub-regions including. (1) | of Indian writing and a major historical | ||
tropical Kerala coast in the west (2) | source for the Mauryan period. | ||
Coromandel Coast in the east (3) flat area | (Borromeo/Art Resource, NY). Copyright © | ||
of Tamil Nadu in the south (4) island of | Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights | ||
Sri Lanka. | reserved. Ashoka's column. | ||
4 | Peninsular India and the Ganges Valley | 26 | Commerce and Culture in an Era of |
have a subtropical climate and plentiful | Political Fragmentation. The Mauryan | ||
rainfall The Indus Valley is dry and | empire collapsed in 184 b.c.e. Northern | ||
agriculture there relies on irrigation The | India fell into a period of political | ||
staple crop of the Ganges Delta is rice; | fragmentation that included rule of the | ||
elsewhere, the staple crops are wheat, | northwest by the Shakas (Scythians, 50 | ||
millet, and barley. | b.c.e.–50 c.e.) and the Kushans (50–240 | ||
5 | This geographical diversity has made | c.e.). Political fragmentation in northern | |
it very difficult for any political power | India was accompanied by economic | ||
to unify all of India for any great length | development in which guilds of artisans | ||
of time. | and merchants played a dominant role. | ||
6 | The Vedic Age- Refers to: Vedas, the | 27 | The period of political fragmentation |
oldest preserved Indo-Aryan texts Vedic | was also characterized by cultural | ||
Sanskrit, language Vedic period, in which | development that included the writing of | ||
the Vedas were produced. Indo-European | the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The | ||
warriors migrated into India They were | latter includes the famous Bhagavad-Gita, | ||
organized in patriarchal families and | which addresses the contradiction between | ||
kinship groups After 1000 b.c.e. some of | duty to society and duty to one’s own | ||
them began to push into the Ganges Valley, | soul. The Bhagavad-Gita suggests that this | ||
using new iron tools to cut down trees and | contradiction can be resolved when one is | ||
cultivate the land The oral tradition of | aware that any form of disciplined action | ||
these light-skinned Arya tribes tells of a | taken without regard for personal benefit | ||
violent struggle between themselves and | is a service to the gods. The period also | ||
the darker-skinned Dravidian-speaking | saw developments in herbal medicine and | ||
Dasas, whom they evidently pushed into | linguistics. | ||
southern India. | 28 | During the period of political | |
7 | Caste or Varnas system. The struggle | fragmentation in the north, central and | |
between Aryas and Dasas led to the | south India experienced different patterns | ||
development of the system of varna, | of development. The Andhra dynasty | ||
meaning “color” but equivalent to “class.” | established an independent state in the | ||
Under this system, people were born into | Deccan (second century b.c.e. to second | ||
one of four varna. | century c.e.). In southern India, divided | ||
8 | (1) Brahmin (priests/scholars) (2) | among three Tamil kingdoms: Cholas, | |
Kshatriya (warriors) (3) Vaishya | Pandyas, and Cheras, this was a period of | ||
(merchants) (4) Shudra (peasant/laborer) A | great artistic achievement. | ||
fifth group, Untouchables, was outside the | 29 | The Gupta Empire, 320–550 c.e. Like | |
system and consisted of persons who did | the Mauryan Empire, the Gupta Empire began | ||
demeaning or ritually polluting work such | with the kingdom of Magadha. The rulers of | ||
as work that involved contact with the | the Gupta Empire brought northern and | ||
dead bodies of animals or humans. | central India under their control, but not | ||
9 | The four varna were subdivided into | the south. Like the Mauryan rulers, the | |
hereditary occupational groups called jati | Guptas controlled iron deposits, | ||
(also known by the Portuguese word caste) | established state monopolies, and | ||
Jati were also arranged in order of | collected a 25 percent agricultural tax. | ||
hierarchy; complex rules governed the | However, they were never as strong as the | ||
appropriate occupation, duties, and | Mauryan Empire. | ||
rituals of each jati and laid forth | 30 | The Guptas used their army to control | |
regulations concerning interaction between | the core of their empire, but provincial | ||
people of different jati. | administration was left to governors who | ||
10 | Religion. The systems of varna and | often made their posts into hereditary and | |
jati were rationalized by belief in | subordinate kingdoms and kinship groups. | ||
reincarnation According to this belief, | 31 | Because the Gupta did not have | |
each individual has an immortal spirit | sufficient military force, they exercised | ||
(atman) that will be reborn in another | power as a “theater-state,” redistributing | ||
body after death. One’s station in the | profits and luxury goods from trade and | ||
next life depends on one’s actions (karma) | dazzling its dependents with elaborate | ||
in this and previous lives. | ceremonies in return for gifts and other | ||
11 | Vedic religion emphasized the worship | favors. | |
of male deities through sacrifice | 32 | We have very little archaeological | |
Religious knowledge and practice was the | data and few contemporary accounts from | ||
monopoly of the Brahmin priestly varna who | which to learn about the politics, | ||
memorized the rituals, prayers, and hymns | society, and culture of the Gupta period. | ||
and may have opposed the introduction of | We know that the court supported | ||
writing in order to maintain their | mathematics and astronomy and that Gupta | ||
monopoly in religious knowledge. | mathematicians invented our “Arabic” | ||
12 | Women. We do not know much about the | numerals and the concept of “zero.” We | |
status or roles of women in the Vedic | also have the Chinese monk Faxian’s | ||
period They could study lore and | description of his journey through Gupta | ||
participate in rituals, they could own | India. | ||
land, and they married in their middle or | 33 | During the Gupta period, women lost | |
late teens. | the right to inherit and own property and | ||
13 | Jainism and Buddhism. During the Vedic | to participate in key rituals, and were | |
period, people who reacted against the | treated like the lowest varna (Shudra). | ||
rigid social hierarchy and against the | They were married very young, and in some | ||
religious monopoly of the Brahmins would | places a widow was required to burn | ||
withdraw into the forests where they | herself on her husband’s funeral pyre. | ||
pursued salvation through yoga (spiritual | Among the few ways to escape this low | ||
and mental discipline), special diets, or | status was to join a religious community, | ||
meditation. | to be a member of an extremely wealthy | ||
14 | Their goal was to achieve | family, or to be a courtesan. | |
moksha—liberation from the cycle of birth, | 34 | The Gupta period, while dominated by | |
death, and rebirth or reaching the best | Hinduism, was characterized by religious | ||
karma that you could actually reach. The | toleration and saw the development of the | ||
ideas of these religious dissidents are | classic form of Hindu temples with | ||
reflected in the Upanishads. | exterior courtyard, inner shrine, and wall | ||
15 | Jainism. Jainism was founded by | decorations. | |
Mahavira (540–468 b.c.e.). Jains practiced | 35 | Gupta India was linked to the outside | |
nonviolence and went to extremes in their | world by extensive trade networks. Trade | ||
attempts not to kill any living thing The | with southeast and east Asia was | ||
most extreme went naked and starved | particularly flourishing. | ||
themselves to death. The less extreme | 36 | In 550 c.e the Gupta empire collapsed | |
devoted themselves to commerce and | under the financial burden of defense | ||
banking—occupations that, unlike | against the Huns. Harsha (r. 606–647 c.e), | ||
agriculture, do not require one to kill. | whose kingdom is described by the Chinese | ||
16 | Buddhism. Siddhartha Gautama founded | pilgrim Xuanzang, briefly reunited | |
Buddhism His title, “Buddha,” means | northern India. After Harsha, northern | ||
“Enlightened One.” Alienated by both the | India again fell into political | ||
extremes of a wealthy youth and six years | fragmentation. | ||
of asceticism, Siddhartha Gautama set | 37 | During the Gupta period numerous small | |
forth his teaching of the “Four Noble | kingdoms ruled the Deccan and south India. | ||
Truths” and of the Eightfold Path that | The most notable of these were the | ||
would lead the individual to | southern warrior kingdoms of the Pallavas | ||
enlightenment. | and the Cholas. | ||
17 | Fasting Buddha This sculpture of the | 38 | Southeast Asia, 50–1025 c.e. |
Buddha, showing the effects of a | 39 | Geography and Resources. Southeast | |
protracted fast, is from Gandhara in | Asia has three geographical zones: (1) the | ||
northwest India. It displays the influence | Indo-china mainland; (2) the Malay | ||
of Greek artistic styles emanating from | peninsula; and (3) the islands. The area | ||
Greek settlements established in that | stands between China and India, and has | ||
region by Alexander the Great in the late | been influenced by both civilizations. | ||
fourth century B.C.E. (Courtesy, Robert | 40 | Natural resources include fertile | |
Fisher). Copyright © Houghton Mifflin | agricultural lands, dependable monsoon | ||
Company. All rights reserved. Fasting | rains, and several growing seasons a year. | ||
Buddha. | This enabled the area to support a large, | ||
18 | Some of his followers took vows of | dense population. | |
celibacy, nonviolence, and poverty. The | 41 | Early Civilization. Early inhabitants | |
original form of Buddhism centered on the | of Southeast Asia practiced swidden (slash | ||
individual’s attempts to gain | and burn) agriculture and domesticated | ||
enlightenment through moderate living, | important crops and animals, including | ||
self-discipline, and meditation Their goal | rice, soybeans, sugar cane, chickens, and | ||
was to achieve nirvana—release from the | pigs. | ||
cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. | 42 | Southeast Asia received waves of | |
19 | According to Buddhist teaching, all | migration of Malay peoples from southern | |
things are composite, including the | China. Malay migrations subsequently | ||
individual This stands in contrast to the | continued into the Pacific islands and | ||
Vedic belief in the existence of an | into the Indian Ocean. Early Malay groups | ||
eternal soul (atman). After the death of | in Southeast Asia lived in small villages, | ||
the Buddha, some of his followers | manufactured bronze tools, and were | ||
organized themselves into monasteries and | organized in small political units. | ||
nunneries They developed a complex, | 43 | The first large states in Southeast | |
hierarchical religion, complete with | Asia emerged in the early centuries c.e. | ||
worship of the Buddha, reverence for | in response to the position of Southeast | ||
bodhisattvas (people trying to gain | Asia as a crossroads for trade and travel | ||
enlightenment), and artistic | between India and China. Trade brought | ||
representations of the Buddha. | business; it also brought Hindu/Buddhist | ||
20 | The religion broke into two major | culture. | |
schools: Mahayana and Theravada. Mahayana | 44 | The first major state to appear in | |
incorporated the new beliefs, while | Southeast Asia was Funan (first through | ||
Theravada followed the original teaching | sixth centuries b.c.e.) in the Mekong | ||
of the Buddha more closely. | delta area. Funan thrived due to its | ||
21 | The Mauryan Empire, 324 b.c.e.–184 | domination of the Isthmus of Kra. Funan’s | |
b.c.e. The core of the Mauryan Empire was | decline in the sixth century may be | ||
the kingdom of Magadha They benefited from | related to the opening of new trade routes | ||
its strategic location and plentiful | that bypassed Funan. | ||
agricultural and iron resources The | 45 | The Srivijayan Kingdom. Srivijaya was | |
Mauryan Empire was founded by Chandragupta | located on Sumatra and dominated the new | ||
and expanded by himself and his successors | southern trade route through the Strait of | ||
Bindusara and Ashoka until it included | Malacca as well as other shipping routes | ||
almost the entire subcontinent. | through the area of modern Malaysia and | ||
22 | Caves at Ajanta During the | Indonesia. | |
fifteen-year reign of its founder, Chandra | 46 | The Srivijayan political system knit | |
Gupta (320-335) and the forty-year reigns | together four different ecological zones | ||
of his three successors, the power and | and their local rulers under the authority | ||
influence of the Gupta Empire reached | of the Srivijayan king. These four zones | ||
across northern and central India. During | were: (1) the core area along the Musi | ||
and after the Gupta period, natural | River; (2) the upland Sumatran interior; | ||
caves--like the cave temples at Ajanta, in | (3) river ports; and (4) the fertile rice | ||
central India, shown here--were turned | lands of central Java. | ||
into complexes of shrines decorated with | 47 | The Srivijayan kings maintained their | |
sculpture and painting. (Dinodia Picture | control over this complex system through a | ||
Agency). Copyright © Houghton Mifflin | combination of military power, diplomacy, | ||
Company. All rights reserved. Caves at | control of trade, and the techniques of | ||
Ajanta. | the “theater-state.” Kings used the | ||
23 | The Mauryan government made its | splendor of their capital to attract | |
capital at the walled and moated city of | resources and labor. The temporal power of | ||
Pataliputra The imperial establishment, | the kings was enhanced by popular belief | ||
including a large army, was supported by a | in their magical powers. Kings were | ||
25 percent tax on the agricultural | associated with forces of fertility. They | ||
products of the empire and by state | also patronized Buddhist monasteries and | ||
monopolies on mines, shipbuilding, and | schools. | ||
armaments. | 48 | Indian culture exercised a powerful | |
24 | The most famous Mauryan emperor is | influence on Srivijayan concepts of | |
Ashoka (r. 269–232 b.c.e.). Ashoka, shaken | kingship and government, while the Hindu | ||
by the carnage in a brutal war of | and Buddhist religions became the dominant | ||
expansion in the south, converted to | faiths of the region. Srivijayans did not, | ||
Buddhism His Buddhist policies of | however, simply imitate India; they | ||
government are preserved in edicts that | borrowed selectively from Indian | ||
were inscribed on rocks and pillars at | civilization and adapted what they | ||
various points throughout his empire. | borrowed to their own culture and needs. | ||
25 | Ashoka's column The best preserved of | 49 | Changes in trade routes led to the |
the pillars that King Ashoka erected in | decline of Srivijaya in the eleventh | ||
about 240 B.C.E. is this one in the Bihar | century. The capital was destroyed in 1025 | ||
region, near Nepal. The solid shaft of | by the Chola kingdom. | ||
polished sandstone rises 32 feet in the | |||
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