CRONOLOGICAL MAP
The influence of Indian culture on Java started about the
first century AD. At first the Javadwipa ( early 2nd century) and
Tarumanegara ( middle 5th century) king doms flourished in west Java
and then in the 7th and 8th century of Javan history
shifted to the central part of the island, where the culture of the Gupta,
Pallava and Pala dynasties of India in their prime were imported, with a great
deal of building of temples taking place first in the area extending from the
northern coastline to the mountainous areas of central Java and later in the
Kedu Basin and on the Kewu Plain to the south.
The historical cultural assets that we are concerned with here belong to that central Java period, which extended to the beginning of the 10th century, after which the center of political and economic life on the island shifted to the east, where the well-known Majaphit Kingdom, for instance, ruled over a broad territory for about 200 years from the beginning of the 13th century.
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