Part 9: The Expansion of Civilization in Southern Asia

I. The Silk Road

II. India After the Mauryas

• The Gupta Dynasty: A New Golden Age?
• The Transformation of Buddhism
• The Decline of Buddhism in India

III. The Arrival of Islam

• The Empire of Mahmud of Ghazni
• The Delhi Sultanate
• Tamerlane

IV. Society and Culture

• Religion
• Economy and Daily Life
• The Wonder of Indian Culture

V. The Golden Region: Early Southeast Asia

• Paddy Fields and Spices: The States of Southeast Asia
• Daily Life
• World of the Spirits: Religious Belief
• Expansion into the Pacific