HIS283H5 Lecture Notes - Drainage Basin
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Ayuthaya (thailand) y common factors: rise of prominence in 10th to 11th century and by the 13th century has reached the peak of stability, prosperity and territorial expansion. Pressure leading to political turmoil: by the end of the classical period, you will have 26 small autonomous independent states as the four collapse. Dai viet (vietnam) y under the influence of china; culturally, politically and socially they have much more y y y information because china has left more information. It is centered around the han (red) river, which was conquered by china in the first century ad. In 7th to 8th ad in classical period, chinese administrators in tang dynasty established a. In 10th century, china was a dynastic collapse, tang falls leading to political instability, creates vacuum where elites can establish their own kingdom y they establish an independent kingdom in vietname. kings perceived themselves to be governed by religious principle.
