Southeast Asian Empires and Trade Cities

What were the collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is today central and southern Vietnam?

How long did the Champa kingdoms reign?

The Champa was absorbed and annexed by who in 1832?

What was the Champa kingdom known for?

What was a Hindu-Buddhist empire in Southeast Asia (present day Cambodia)?

How long did the Khmer Empire reign?

What was the Khmer Empire's greatest legacy?

What was Angkor?

When was Angkor's peak?

True or False: Angkor was the largest pre-industrial urban center in the world

What spread easily to the kingdoms of Champa and Khmer, shifting and consolidating their state systems?

What was Hinduism's appeal for Southeast Asian rulers?

The ruling classes of Southeast Asia tended to admire which Hindu deities?

Why were the rulers of Southeast Asia eager to emulate Indian civilization and culture?

What did Indian civilization and culture inspire?

Which religion was popular among the lower class?

What outlook does Buddhism have on life?

Maritime Indonesian kingdom based on the island of Sumatra and was the first-known major unified kingdom to dominate the Indonesian archipelago.

When did Buddhism expand in Srivijaya?

What was the maritime Empire in Southeast Asia that was largely responsible for the fall of the Srivijaya and was one of the last major empires of the region?

When did Srivijaya fall?

How long did Majapahit reign?

True or False: Majapahit is NOT considered to be one of the greatest and most powerful empires in the history of Indonesia and Southeast Asia

The Majapahit are well known for the repulsion of who several times in the 13th century?

How was the Majapahit relating to religion?

When did trade expanded in the Indian Ocean, resulting in the growth of several city-states?

What city-state harnessed naval power and gained control of Mediterranean trade?

When did Venice start gaining power?

Venetian merchants would buy goods from the East and do what?

Who did Venetian merchants form agreements with?

The Venetians also became powerful financial lenders, establishing the world's first what?

What else would The Venetians establish?

The main city-state of what would become the Buddhist Srivijaya Civilization

How long did Malacca last?

Malacca was strategically placed where?

The Venetians and Malacca utilized what?

Who spread throughout the Indian Ocean forming merchant communities?

Emerged as a major city-state, benefiting primarily trade with caliphates via the Trans-Saharan trade routes

Timbuktu was known for what?

What was located in East Africa and emerged as trade with the Muslim world grew?

What were the Swahili city-state main exports?

Swahili city-states initially existed as local towns with chieftains but they would grow to what?

True or False: The Swahili city-states were never unified into a single state and remained independent coastal polities

After prolonged exposure to Muslim merchants and communities, what languages and cultures blended, eventually causing conversion to Islam?

The main exports from East Africa were what?

What served as an oasis trading post and strategically-important city along the Silk Roads for over 2000 years?

Kashgar has been under the rule of who?

What was the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia?

Samarkand was located where?

Kashgar served as what?

Who was Samarkand ruled under?

When did the Mongols conquer Samarkand?

What is Samarkand known for?

Samarkand was the capitol city of which empire?

When was Samarkand the capitol of Timur?