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2022342605Gupta Dynasty320-515 AD, India, great period of cultural fluorishment: really intelligent, scientific discovery, developed sign for 0, quadratic equations, medical sciences: caesarian section, great builders, open minded, and they respected the non-Hindu's. phase expansion and growth, maturation of South Asia, power was distrupted by the Huns, came to a close around 500, the Gupta's were collapsing0
2022342606Umayyad DynastyA dynasty made by Mu awiyah. It is heretiary for family, Moved the capital from Madinah to Damascus, in Syria.1
2022342607Abbasid Dynasty..., Muslim dynasty after Ummayd, a dynasty that lasted about two centuries that had about 150 years of Persia conquer and was created by Mohammad's youngest uncle's sons2
2022342608Delhi Sultanate(1206-1526 CE) The successors of Mahmud of Ghazni mounted more campaigns, but directed their goals to creating this empire.3
2022342609Chola KingdomKingdom situated in the deep south. At its high point, Chola forces conquered Ceylon and parts of southeast Asia, funded by the profits of trade, dominated the sea, did not build a tightly centralized state.4
2022342610Vijayanagar Kingdom(1336-1565) S Indian Kingdom, fell to Mughals, created by Harihara and Bukka who were supposed to enforce Delhi policies but became independent rulers5
2022342611MelakaThe first major center of Islam in Southeast Asia, a port kingdom on the southwestern coast of the Malay Peninsula.6
2022342612Funan KingdomAn early complex society in Southeast Asia between the first and sixth centuries C.E. It was centered in the rich rice-growing region of southern Vietnam, and it controlled the passage of trade across the Malaysian isthmus. (p. 191)7
2022342613Srivijaya KingdomDominated Southeast Asia trade from its base on the island of Sumatra during the period from 670-1025 C.E. It became wealthy due to its ability to tax the trade between India and China passing throught the strait of Melaka.8
2022342614Angkor KingdomA region of Cambodia that served as the seat of the Khmer Empire, which flourished from approximately the 9th to 13th centuries. This period began in AD 802, when the Khmer Hindu monarch Jayavarman II declared himself a "universal monarch" and "god-king", until 1431, when Ayutthayan invaders sacked the Khmer capital9
2022342615Singosari KingdomA kingdom located in east Java between 1222 and 1292;In its heyday Singosari was so powerful that the mighty Mongol emperor Kublai Khan deemed it essential to send a fleet and a special emissary to the court of Singosari to demand that King Kertanegara personally submit allegiance to the emperor.10
2022342616Majapahit Kingdomvast archipelagic empire based on the island of Java from 1293 to around 1500; one of the last major empires of the region and is considered to be one of the greatest and most powerful empires in the history of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, one that is sometimes seen as the precedent for Indonesia's modern boundaries11
2022342617Bhakti(Hinduism) Loving devotion to a deity leading to salvation and Nirvana.12
2022342618EmporiaIndia being in the middle of the Indian Ocean it was a natural site for this and warehouses, traders exchanged their cargoes at Cambay, Calicut or Quilon for goods to take back west with the winter monsoon13
2022342619Harsha(r.606-648 CE) He restored centralized rule in northern India after the collapse of the Gupta. He can be compared to Charlemagne.14
2022342620Mahmud of GhazniThird ruler of Turkish slave dynasty in Afghanistan; led invasions of northern India; credited with sacking one of wealthiest of Hindu temples in northern India; gave Muslims reputation for intolerance and aggression.15
2022342621HariharaBukka's brother, represented Sultan of Delhi and implement court policies in South, converted from Hindu to Islam and back to Hindu when established Vijayanagar independently from Delhi with brother16
2022342622BukkaHarihara's brother, represented Sultan of Delhi and implement court policies in South, converted from Hindu to Islam and back to Hindu when established Vijayanagar independently from Delhi with brother, consumer prices17
2022342623Paramesvara• Founder of a new sultanate at Malacca • Vassal of the Hindu state of Majapahit on Java • Wanted to enhance his ability to play a role in the commerce passing through the region18
2022342624Guru Kabir(1440-1518) a blind weaver, who was one of the most famous bhakti teachers, went so far to teach that Shiva, Vishnu, and Allah were all manifestations of single, universal deity.19
2022342625Shankaraa southern Indian devotee of Shiva who was active during the early ninth century, took it upon himself to digest all sacred consistent system of thought. Closely resembles Plato.20
2022342626RamanujaThe twelfth-century devotee of Vishnu, who believed that personal devotion and personal union with the deity was more important than an intellectual understanding of ultimate reality, was?21

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