List two of the agragrian kingdoms that grew in the seventh and eighth century alongside the maritime states founded on trade that lined the routes from China to India? How did they use their geography to stimulate agriculture?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Agrarian kingdoms were growing up based on rice productionSoutheast Asia
1. the Khmer
a. a single kingdom, centered at the new city of Angkor
b. natural reservoir of monsoonal rains
c. region had no mines, no great commercial fleets, and no great industries
d. wealth came from the flooding of the Mekong River
e. soil there is so rich that, provided the waters are channeled into reservoirs, it yields three rice crops a year
d. good location provided contact with other rice producing regions
2. Viet and Cham Kingdoms
a. big states that took shape in Indochina
b. traditional wealth of the region in ivory, rhinoceros horn, and aromatic woods
c. benefitted from Buddhist bureaucracy
d. felled forests
1. taxes on lumber
2. new lands committed food products
3. Srivijaya
a. Sumatran coast in Indochina
b. trading state that needed their own food supply
c. had a river-linked interior that supplied more rice than could grow on the coast
d. inhabitants still worked to expand rice production
e. Legend says that the fathers of the city chose its site by weighing the waters of Sumatra's various rivers for silt and finding that those of the Musi would be best for irrigating rice lands
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