Chapter 16, of Traditions and Encounters
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| 16194695 | Buzurg ibn Shahriyar | a tenth-century shipmaster from Siraf, a prosperous and bustling port city on the Persian Gulf coast; he compiled 136 stories in his book Book of the Wonders of India | 0 | |
| 16194696 | Mughals | people in the north | 1 | |
| 16194697 | King Harsha | one of the few lasting centralized imperial rule after the Gupta dynasty; he was a very excellent ruler and every one really liked him for his generosity and wiseness despite the fact he was only 16 coming into power; however, some idiot assassinated him and he had no heir | 2 | |
| 16194698 | Islam Reaching India | one was by military (in other words force); then there were the conquerors which kind of goes along with military; then there were the merchants; the last one would be the migrations and invasions of Turkish-speaking peoples | 3 | |
| 16194699 | Sind | the indus river valley in northwester India; was kind of a province of the Umayyad empire then it later went to the Abbasids; most of the population was Hindy, Buddhist or Parsee though | 4 | |
| 16194700 | Gujarat | a region that housed a large muslim population | 5 | |
| 16194701 | Mahmud of Ghazni | leader of the Turks in Afghanistan; mounted 17 raiding expeditions into India; he hastened the decline of Buddhism because of his demolishment of there sites and what-not | 6 | |
| 16194702 | Sultanate of Delhi | what the successors of Mahmud established after a more smarter effort of invading northern India | 7 | |
| 16194703 | Chola Kingdom | exercised at least nominal rule in southern India; dominated waters of south china sea to the arabian sea | 8 | |
| 16194704 | Vijayanagar Kingdom | the second most good kingdom in souther india | 9 | |
| 16194705 | Harihara and Bukka | 2 brother official of Dehli; the recently changed to Islam because of the Turks or sultans or whatever, and they were like, "here's our chance to be our own kings". so when they went to the south to retrieve it for the north, they were like, lets make our own town kingdom place, and they were like, we need a catchy name though, and so the chose: Vijayanagar (city of victory) | 10 | |
| 16194706 | Monsoons and Irigation | the monsoons sometimes brought nice humid winds and sometimes the brought dry winds; when they brought dry winds, it forced the people to have irrigation; so they built a whole bunch of dams, reservoirs, canals, wells, and tunnels; one reservoir covered some 650 square kilometers | 11 | |
| 16194707 | Dhows and Junks | were ships; D was favored by indians, persian and arab sailors; junks were the chinese ships | 12 | |
| 16194708 | Emporia and Warehouses | were like places of trade and cosmopolitan centers and what not | 13 | |
| 16194709 | Kingdom of Axum | were in Africa and they like took over the trade stuff from there, they even took over Egypt and Nubia | 14 | |
| 16194710 | jati | the castes that people most closely identified with were the subcastes which often took the form of workers' guilds | 15 | |
| 16194711 | Vishnu and Shiva | the two most important deities in the Hindu religion | 16 | |
| 16194712 | Hinduism | benefited from the decline of Buddhism and devotional cults helped the popularity of Hinduism | 17 | |
| 16194713 | Shankara and Ramanuja | Brahin philosophers that took the Upanishads as a point of departure for subtele reasoning and sophisticated metaphysics | 18 | |
| 16194714 | Shankara | southern India; tried to harmonize all the Hindu writitings | 19 | |
| 16194715 | Ramanuja | challenged Shankara's thinkings; he thought personal union with the deity is the most important | 20 | |
| 16198291 | Islam | most indians converted to islam in an effort to higher their position in the caste system (it didn't work) | 21 | |
| 16198292 | Bhakti | a cult of love and devotion that ultimately sought to erase the distinction between hinduism and islam (basically saying that Hindu and Islam are the same things, like Catholism and Protestants) | 22 | |
| 16198293 | Guru Kabir | a blind weaver who was one of the most famous bhakti teachers and tried to convice people that all the religions were basically just worshiping the same god (but that didn't really work either) | 23 | |
| 16198294 | Ramayana and Mahabharata | Hidu literatureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee | 24 | |
| 16198295 | Funan | the first state known to have reflected Indian influence in this fashion was Funan; got major wealth from controlling trade ports | 25 | |
| 16198296 | Srivijaya | after the fall of Funan (bitter power struggle weaked it) this place came to be; they had a god navy and stuff because they made taxes; but then the cholas came (not the mexicans) and took 'em down! | 26 | |
| 16198297 | Angkor & Singosari & Majapahit | A came after the decline of Srivijaya; and a lot of other good stuff happened | 27 | |
| 16198298 | Melaka | a powerful state that sponsered Islam; started as a hindu state though but then changed to islam | 28 |
