How were India and Southeast Asia affected by the plague?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Effects of plague on India and Southeast Asia
1. India
a. areas that escaped the plague included places that ought to have
been vulnerable to a disease spread by contagion or infection
b. references to pestilence are not much more frequent in
fourteenth-century sources than for other periods
c. recorded outbreaks were localized
d. sultanate of Delhi profited from the Mongols' decline
e. Sultan Muhammad Ibn Tughluq was the driving force of a
policy of conquest that almost covered subcontinent with campaigns
f. Delhi sultans were under constant pressure from the Muslim
establishment to impose Islam by force, launch holy war, and
ease the tax burden on Muslims at the expense of "infidels"
g. capacity for an India-wide empire had been demonstrated but so
had the problems of maintaining such a large and diverse state
h. future attempts would run into the same kinds of difficulties as
those that caused the sultanate's control of the outer edges of
the state to unravel and its expansion to come to a halt
2. Southeast Asia
a. native kingdom in Java exploited the opportunity that emerged
as the Mongol threat waned
b. offshore world of Southeast Asia produced goods the Chinese
market wanted
c. states in the region were in a position to threaten or control the
passage by sea of those goods
d. control of the strait between Malaya, Java, and Sumatra was
strategically vital for China-bound trade
e. Javanese shipping made an important contribution to commerce
f. kingdom of Majapahit had its own imperial career in the mid-
fourteenth century