HIST110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Gupta Empire, Hephthalite Empire, Faxian
3 Mar 2015
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Land ownership scholars believed land was held communally, people who worked the land held the land, evidence of both theories, or all the land belonged to the king, Trouble for the gupta empire group on the move out of mongolia towards west, splits into two groups, one group goes to the roman empire, one group heads to india. The hephthalites (the hunans, or the white huns), control over area of battle of talas to the. The cost of defending them causes gupta empire to decline in power and money. They saw gupta rulers as tyrannical, they had an intent to release them from gupta/buddhism rule. Decline of gupta power sets in b/c of the attack of the white huns. Toramama, leader of the white huns, invaded north western india and expanded empire. Under his sons, they pushed deeper into india,
