ASIA 390 Study Guide - Final Guide: Orthogenesis, Susuhunan, Sultan Agung Of Mataram
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Unhighlighted text- from official final study guide on canvas. Highlighted text- from study guide on 17th century crisis on canvas. Note: everything before midterm is on the official final study guide. Imp:observation: causes of downfall of age of commerce/ poverty in. Sea/causes of fall in monsoon trade seem to have the same reasons. Following midterm: kinship as a political idiom in the sea of melayu , in searching for economic advantage in the highly competitive market environment of the straits, the malayu sought to increase their effectiveness by expanding their family of kinfolk. Various strategies to incorporate outsiders into the family: Through marriage, bilateral kinship, traces relationship through female and male. Through adoption of talented children or an outsider acknowledged to possess special skills and spiritual prowess of great use to the family. Core kinship group is strengthened via cross cousin marriages: were common as a way preventing dilution of the bonds of kinship group.
