Cultural Transformations in Asian History: Gupta Empire to Mongol Conquest, 300-1300

1. CHAPTER 11 • THE GROWTH AND SPREAD OF ASIAN CULTURE • BEFORE AND AFTER THE MONGOL CONQUEST • 300-1300

2. India’s Politics and Culture • Gupta Art and Literature • Gupta Scholarship and Science • New Political Configurations • Muslims in India

3. Chinese Continuity • Before the Tang Dynasty • Political Developments Under the Rising Tang Dynasty, 618-756 • Tang Economic and Social Changes • Tang Culture

4. Chinese Continuity: • Tang Decline • Political Developments During the Song Era, 960-1279 • Song Economic and Social Conditions • Song Philosophy, Literature and Art

5. Korea: Three Kingdoms to One

6. Emergence of Japan in East Asia • 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

7. The Mongol Impact • 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

8. YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND • 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.

9. YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND • 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.

10. YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND • 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.