Intro

310 Asian Humanities

Wed. August 25 Geography and Trade

ASAN 310 Announcement - Thu. Aug. 25

Interested in a unique, intense theatre experience? Join the Theatre and Dance department’s Randai performance (and classes)

MUS 411 I: Asian Ensemble: Randai music, talempong, and traditional dendang singing TTH 3:00 - 4:15 KT Substage

THEA 433 Movement workshop: Silek (martial arts) training TH 10:30 - 11:45 KT LAB

Rehearsal schedule: Oct/Nov: Dance and Music: MWF 7-10 PM. Dec/Jan: MTWRF 7-10 PM (music schedule subject to change) - some rehersals during Winter Break.Performance dates: February 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 2012

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Silk roap map1

Map #1

Silk roap map2

Map #2

intro

1. Overland “Silk Road” 1st cen. BCE (100 to 1 BCE) to mid 2nd cen. CEStretching from China to Rome

A series of routes – “like truck stops”

Over centuries, increased attempts at control,Tariffs, prohibitions,…and banditry

Early Trade Routes in South and Southeast Asia

Silk roap map3

Srivijaya - 7th c.

Oceo - 1st c.

Arabia

Malacca Strait

Map #3

Isthmus of Kra

intro

1. Overland “Silk Road” 1st cen. BCE (100 to 1 BCE) to mid 2nd cen. CEStretching from China to Rome

2. Maritime Trade c. 7th c. CE - 15th c.through Malacca Strait, From India and points West, through to China

Served as a substitute, then challenge and replacementto overland routes

Early Trade Routes in South and Southeast Asia

Satellite image

Trade windsN/W Monsoon

Trade windsS/E Monsoons

Srivijaya, Sumatra7-14th centuries

Srivijaya map

Srivijaya, Sumatra7-14th centuries

7th c. Chinese traveler I-Ching described a monastery of 1,000 monks, Srivijaya as important religious center

Srivi items

“Indianization” of Southeast Asia

Contributions: primarily within the court cultures

-- Architecture (temples)

-- Literature (Ramayana, Mahabharata)

-- Alphabets, scripts (all S.E.A. scripts based on Indic ones)

-- Philosophy & religion

-- Concepts of governance, social structure

-- Sciences: astronomy, mathematics

-- Priests, travelers

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Borobudur, 9th. cBuddhist monumentJava, Indonesia

boro

Boro shipBas-relief, 9th-c. Borobudur monument, Java, Indonesia

From East

China - Changan(Xian)

Bukhara - Bactria(Afghanistan)

IndiaBarygazaArikamedu (India)

Srivijaya (Sumatra)

East to West

to West

Arabia

Alexandria, Egypt

Venice

Rome

From East

China - ChanganSilk, porcelain, lacquer

Bukhara - BactriaHorses, gold, copper, tin, lapis lazuli, garnet, and carnelian

IndiaBarygazaPepper, spices, textiles

ArikameduGlass, beads, pottery

Srivijaya, SumatraForest resins, fragrant woods

East to West - items

to West

ArabiaFrankincense, myrrh

Alexandria, EgyptShipbuilding, metals, wine, slaves

VeniceGold, coins, wine

RomeGold, coins, wine, glasswork

Periplus old map

Periplus of the Erythraean Sea -- mid-1st century. Greek

Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (mid-1st century)

This whole voyage as above described, from Cana and Eudaemon Arabia, they used to make in small vessels, sailing close around the shores of the gulfs; and Hippalus was the pilot who by observing the location of the ports and the conditions of the sea, first discovered how to lay his course straight across the ocean. For at the same time when with us the Etesian winds are blowing, on the shores of India the wind sets in from the ocean, and this southwest wind is called Hippalus, from the name of him who first discovered the passage across.

From that time to the present day ships start, some direct from Cana, and some from the Cape of Spices; and those bound for Damirica throw the ship's head considerably off the wind; while those bound for Barygaza and Scythia keep along shore not more than three days and for the rest of the time hold the same course straight out to sea from that region, with a favorable wind, quite away from the land, and so sail outside past the aforesaid gulfs.

Periplus old map

Periplus of the Erythraean Sea Worksheet

-- Read through the text and find your locations on the map

-- In your groups, discuss:

a. what’s the main import or point of the information? How do you categorize the information?

b. key -- or intriguing items of trade and their origins

c. cultural attitudes and information beyond trade

Groups: 1) Egypt - Arabia 2) India

Everyone: Where is This? What are the clues?

Periplus group work

Warriors and Nomads: Kushans

Readings T/Aug 30: Global Asia, Chap. 3: Warriors: 31-44. Th/Sept. 1: view an on-line exhibit noted on the blog; what do you

learn? How do you rate it?

***Reading response/blog entry #1. due: 10 a.m. Sept. 1 *** Log onto the blog and 1) introduce yourself; 2) comment on an aspect that you find most compelling from the readings from the first 2 weeks (2-3 paragraphs).

Coming up

Coming up: Warriors and Nomads

Kushan empire 1-2nd centuriesin Bactria - (Modern-day N. Afghanisan

• What were Kushan characteristics?

• What aspects of other cultures did they adopt and adapt?

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