ASIA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Turnitin, Trita, Western Satraps
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Asia 100 - introduction to traditional asia - lecture 8: classical age in india. Enroll with real name or alias, but not full student # (last four digits) Bullet form citations of evidence, like citation exercise. Remember: alexander the great replaced persian empire with greek rule. As with china: cyclical invasions from nw nomads. Scythians, parthians, "yuezhi" -> kushanas win out, establish kushan empire. Military empires like kushanas and western kshatrapas reliant on victory and plunder. Had to learn taxation, or stagnate. Nomads needed elite knowledge of statecraft, so learned from iranian (persian) and. Spread south over subcontinent, overseas to se asia. By 1st c. ce, funan adopted indian statecraft. Indian buddhism spread to china around this time. Avatar are descents and incarnations of deities into the world. Buddhism also influenced: theravada self-discipline -> mahayana buddhism brings in devotion to bodhisattvas. Kings of classical india associated with divinity. Royal lines competed to form states and expand.
