HISTORY 207 Lecture 4: Lec4 - Decline of Charter States
8 Mar 2016
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Outline -- decline of the charter states 1250-1400: indices of decline, fundamental shifts in politics & culture. Political collapse [pagan in upper burma facing invasions and revolts, angkor by the tais, srivijava planets break away & capital abandoned] Dai viet [charter state of northern vietnam] faces invasion from south vietnam. Series of small competing successor states to the great charter states fragment. Great charter states fragmented: end to the old culture order. Islamic art, gender norm, writing begin to take hold islamization. Their art & architecture replaced that of hinduism. The great stone monuments & stone inscriptions suddenly ceased: arrival of new ethnic groups & founding of new states, such as the tai people that came down from mountain (which is now south china) into the lowland into. & established a series of new tai states: shift in political gravity shift from interior to the coast of sea. In burma, new city known as pegu replaces pagan as dominant center.
