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Kingdoms in Post-Classical India
Islam in Post-Classical India
Hinduism in Post-Classical India
Philosophers in Post-Classical India
Trade in Post-Classical India
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First kingdom to appear in India following the fall of the Gupta Dynasty
What is Harsha's Kingdom?
100
This area saw the first Arab Muslim invasions and later became part of the Abbassid Empire.
What is Sind?
100
Of the three regions in India (north, central, and southern), this region stayed primarily Hindu during the Post-Classical Era.
What is southern India?
100
One of the main leaders of the Bhakti Movement, a cult which professed the need to end the distinction between Hinduism and Islam in post-classical India.
What is guru Kabir?
100
The seasons when ships could sail most easily from east Africa to India.
What is spring and summer? (April-September)
200
Area in northwestern India that was conquered in 711 and become part of the Umayyad and then the Abbasid Empires
What is Sind?
200
This kindgom was established by Mahmud of Ghazni, leader of the Turks in Afghanistan. Though he established an Islamic state, he primarily weakened Buddhism in India by destroying and pillaging so many Buddhist temples and monasteries,
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
200
New cults developed in Hinduism in the Post-Classical Era, including this new cult devoted to a god of fertility and destruction, who brought life, but also took it away when its season had passed.
What is Shiva?
200
Taught that by placing themselves in the hands of Vishnu, followers could win the god's grace and live forever in his presence.
What is Ramanuja?
200
The key determinant of WHEN a trader sailed to and from India from East Africa.
What is the monsoon system?
300
Established by Mahmud of Ghazni's successors as an Islamic state in India
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
300
When officials in Delhi dispatched two brothers to head to this region, they converted back to their first religion,Hinduism, and rejected the Muslim faith in this region, thus keeping this area Hindu.
What is Vijayanagar?
300
This Hindu god is the preserver of the world, a god who observed the universe from the heavens and who occasionally entered the world in human form in order to resist evil or to communicate his teachings.
What is Vishnu?
300
He sought to digest all sacred Hindu writings and harmonize their contradictions into a single, consistent system of thought. He also held that the physical world was an illusion (as did Plato) and that the ultimate reality lay beyond the physical senses.
What is Shankara>
300
Pepper country.
What is India?
400
A kingdom deep in the south of India which ruled the Cormorandel coast for more than four centuries but declined in the mid 13th century.
What is the Chola Kingdom?
400
Of the regions north, central, and southern India, this region primarily was Muslim during the Post-Classical Era.
What is the north?
400
Meditation of these two deities was believed to support the achievement of a mystic union with the gods that would bring grace and salvation to Hindus in the Post-Classical Era.
What are Vishnu and Shiva?
400
This 8th or 9th century sacred text encourages followers how to be devoted to Vishnu.
What is the Bhagavata Purana?
400
Important post-classical country that lies between the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties in southwest Asia and the Tang and Song Dynasties in China.
What is India?
500
"City of Victory", it remained Hindu thanks to two brothers and it is the second state that dominated much of southern India in the post-classical era.
What is Vijayanagar?
500
A cult of love and devotion, and led by guru Kabir, this movement sought to erase the distinction between Hinduism and Buddhism.
What is the Bhakti movement?
500
As trade connections grew in India, these new groups of men who engaged in silk, cottor, the spice trade, and various other trade-related occupations reinforced the jatis system.
What are merchant guilds?
500
One man mistrusted emotional services and ceremonies, believing human beings could only understand the ultimate reality of Brahman by engaging in rational thought, while the other man believed the intellectural understanding of the intellectual understanding of the deity was less important than personal union with the deity.
What are Shankara and Ramanuja?
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Served as bankers, made loans, invested in commercial and business ventures, thereby promoting production and trade in India, they also cooperated with leaders of merchant guilds in seeking commercial opportunities to exploit.
What is Hindu temples (especially prevalent in Chola)