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The Chola dynasty [a] (Tamil: [t͡ʃoːɻɐr]) was a Tamil dynasty originating from southern India. At its height, it ruled over the Chola Empire , an expansive maritime empire. The earliest datable references to the Chola are from inscriptions dated to the 3rd century BCE during the reign of Ashoka of the Maurya empire .
The Chola dynasty played a significant role in linking the markets of China to the rest of the world. The empire's market structure and economic policies were more conducive to a large-scale, cross-regional market trade than those enacted by the Chinese Song Dynasty. A Chola record gives their rationale for engagement in foreign trade: "Make ...
Economy of the Song dynasty. A Northern Song coin (sheng song yuan bao 聖宋元寶) The economy of the Song dynasty (960–1279) has been characterized as the most prosperous in the world at the time. [1] The dynasty moved away from the top-down command economy of the Tang dynasty (618–907) and made extensive use of market mechanisms as ...
Economy of the Ming dynasty. A gold ingot excavated from the Dingling Mausoleum, the tomb of the Wanli Emperor (r. 1572–1620) The economy of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) of China was one of the largest in the world during that period. [citation needed] It is regarded as one of China's three major golden ages (the other two being the Han and ...
The period of the imperial Cholas (c. 850 CE – 1250 CE) in South India was an age of continuous improvement and refinement of Chola art and architecture.They utilised the wealth earned through their extensive conquests in building long-lasting stone temples and exquisite bronze sculptures, in an almost exclusively Dravidian cultural setting.
Silk Road. The Silk Road[a] was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. [1] Spanning over 6,400 km (4,000 mi), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds. [2][3][4] The name "Silk Road" was ...
Territories of the Maurya Empire conceptualized as core areas or linear networks separated by large autonomous regions in the works of scholars such as: historians Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund; [1] Burton Stein; [2] David Ludden; [3] and Romila Thapar; [4] anthropologists Monica L. Smith [5] and Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah; [4] archaeologist Robin Coningham; [4] and historical demographer ...
The main trade route leading into Han China passed first through Kashgar, yet Hellenized Bactria further west was the central node of international trade. [140] By the 1st century AD, Bactria and much of Central Asia and North India were controlled by the Kushan Empire. [141] Silk was the main export item from China to India.