It had its genesis with the Gupta kings in the fifth century CE and happened within the same environment and realm as the Muslim caliphates that were occurring at the same time. It is now attested and asserted that this process started in 500 and then continued to 1300, at which point it seemingly laid the groundwork for westernization and came to pass from 1300 CE to the present. Indeed, Lynda Shafer from Turfs University describes Southernization and westernization as being analogous. The latter of those two terms refers to certain developments that first occurred in Western Europe. Indeed, the advent and emergence of exploration and colonization led to the spread of a singular culture or set of cultures around the world. Indeed, the spread of the cultures endemic and native to the Southern parts of Asia did much the same thing from 500 to 1300 CE [footnoteRef:1]. Another part of the lexicon and vernacular that is shifting is the use of period titles and conventions, with the post-classical era being a good example. Obvious, there are trends and examples that are specific to certain eras in history. However, speaking with too broad a brush and keeping things too high-level just helps to get things wrong and it disregards outliers and variations during certain periods. Periodization, as…
India was also the site where sugar was first granulated, enabling it to be stored and transported and leading to still more trade advantages. Within China, rice cultivation also spread from the south to the north, adding to this trend of southernization as far as agriculture (Far Outliers). The hunt for and trade in gold also led to a great deal of Southernization, establishing important trade routes between India and