HISTORY 207 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Artificiality, Theravada, 1
8 Mar 2016
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Outline -- southeast asia as a unit of study: att racti ons of se asia. Unifying themes: bilateral kingship and female autonomy, low populati on densiti es and their implicati ons, people the key resource, small, fragile kingdoms, cultural borrowing, mariti me infl uences. 2: outline -- the charter/classical states, distinguishing features. The solar polity -- concepts of territorial space. Social hierarchy -- concepts of social space: macrocosm and microcosm. 3: outline -- decline of the charter states 1250-1400, indices of decline. Internal theories: popular exhaustion, political devolution, ecological exhaustion. External theories: climate, tais and mongols, trade expansion. 4: outline -- re-integration on the mainland c. 1400-1850, introduction. Patterns of change: territorial integration/consolidation [after the collapse of the charter states during 1250-1400, political centralization (administrative centralization, cultural homogenization, religious orthodoxy. Underlying dynamics: maritime factors, domestic economic factors, interstate warfare. Outline -- theravada buddhism in southeast asia: the uniqueness of buddhism.
