Transcript CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 11
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THE GROWTH AND SPREAD OF
ASIAN CULTURE
BEFORE AND AFTER THE MONGOL
CONQUEST
300-1300
India’s Politics and Culture
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Gupta Art and Literature
Gupta Scholarship and Science
New Political Configurations
Muslims in India
Chinese Continuity
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Before the Tang Dynasty
Political Developments Under the Rising
Tang Dynasty, 618-756
Tang Economic and Social Changes
Tang Culture
Chinese Continuity:
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Tang Decline
Political Developments During the Song
Era, 960-1279
Song Economic and Social Conditions
Song Philosophy, Literature and Art
Korea: Three Kingdoms to
One
Emergence of Japan in East
Asia
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Geographical, Ethnic, and Historical
Backgrounds
The Taika Reforms: Monarchy with
Bureaucracy
A Time of Splendor: The Heian Politics
of Consorts and Samurai, 794-1185
The Kamakura Shogunate
The Mongol Impact
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Nomads of Central Asia
Formation of the Mongol Empire
The Mongol Imperial Structure
China Under the Mongols
Pax Mongolica: Relinking East and West
The Mongol Legacy
YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND
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The Gupta Empire in India with its
remarkable science, literature, and
influence on other parts of Asia.
The Muslim invasions of India that led
to the powerful Delhi Sultanate, which
was destroyed by Tamerlane.
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The T'ang and Sung dynasties with
their effective governments, skilled
poets and artists, and religious
philosophers.
The Mongol Empire whose military
might imposed a Pax Mongolica through
Asia from China to the Danube River.
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The buildup of a Japanese imperial
state out of a competing group of clans,
the decline of that form of government,
and the emergence of a new structure
embodied in the Kamakura Shogunate.