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Ancient Crossroads
Section 3 pages 598-603
II. Crossroads
A. Southeast Asia Trade Center
1. center of sea routes for the
South Pacific and Indian Ocean
B. Early History
1.Skills developed
a. making tools from bronze
b. growing yams and rice
c. sailing
B. Early History cont.
2. Southeast Asia not China and India
a. Bronze Age items dated back to
3,000 B.C.
b. Rice grown eight to nine thousand
years
ago in Thailand
c. Yams and other roots grown in
Indonesia between 15,000 and
10,000 B.C.
C. Trade and Travel
1. Southeast Asia trade routes
a. rice, tea, timber, gold and other
metals
b. spices such as cloves, nutmeg,
ginger, and pepper
C. Trade and Travel cont.
2. Religious ideas and knowledge spread
3. Skills crossed to and from S.E. Asia
a. farming
b. metal working
c. art forms and techniques
D. Influence of India
1. Hindu priest and Buddhist
monks brought Indian culture to
S.E. Asia
a. art, architecture and religion
E. Buddhism
1. Roots from Hinduism
2. Founder Siddharta Gautama
a. a wealthy prince
3. Teachings
a. life continuing cycle of death and
rebirth
b. Four Noble Truths
c. Eightfold Path
Buddhism
Four Noble Truths
Eightfold Path
The Truth of Suffering
All existence is suffering
1. Knowing the truth
The Truth of Cause
Illusion and desire are the cause
of suffering
2. Trying to reset evil
The Truth of Extinction
Suffering should be eliminated
3. Saying nothing to hurt
others
The Truth of the Path
Eliminate suffering step by step
4. Respecting life, morality
(what is right), and property
5. Holding a job that does not
injure others
7. Controlling one’s feelings
and thoughts
6. Trying to free one’s mind of
evil
8. Practicing proper forms of
E. Buddhism cont.
4. Spread of Buddhism
a. throughout India, Sri Lanka and
S.E. Asia
b. Spread into Tibet, China, Korea,
and Japan
F. Empire of Khmer
1. Khmer people established kingdom
6th century A.D.
a. present day Cambodia
b.Hindu Kingdom influenced by
Indian culture
c. Built Angkor Wat
1. huge temple complex
d. Growth and Spread of
Buddhism
1.Hindu decline Khmer lost power
2.Built Buddhist temple called
Borobudur
3.Fifth and Sixth centuries
Buddhism in place in Myanmar
4.King Anawarahta establishes
kingdom in capital city of Pagan
a. Ananda temple most famous
b. built thousands more temples
Religious Influences
India
Buddhism
or
Hinduism
Cambodia
Khmer kingdom
Angkor Wat
Indonesia
Indonesia
Temple of Borobudur
Southeast Asia
Myanmar
City of Pagan
Throughout India