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**Fall of the Chola Empire** – Research – Essay – Bibliography
 * Rise of the Chola Empire** – Research – // Essay // – Bibliography

 __Story about the Chola Empire and Today__ Bianca la France There is a lot that has changed since the Cholas but there is a lot that also hasn't changed. __When we__ __look back at the Cholas we're able to see how fear controlled their lives and prevented change__. Their government officials were driven by fear as was their economy and society. In life there are everyday connections that people are too preoccupied with their fear to see. In our world there is a great deal of fear also. So maybe we really haven't changed as much as we think we have – it's just our material world that has changed the most.

 Many leaders need to feel powerful because they are afraid that if they don't authorize control over their people then no one will listen to them. In the Chola Empire the King structured his government system very carefully so that his entire kingdom was carefully divided into small sections and within the sections people felt as though they had control but the King was the one who really had control of all those subsections (Wadhwani, Toshi, Pradhan 100 - 118). Today the government still controls our lives just as much as it controlled the Cholans. People think that they have power because they are able to vote and feel represented by their elected person – but really people are still contained in the subsections which are still headed by the government. What happens in a subsections is still important but the King / government still has control over the people through things like laws and taxes in both the Cholan government and our government today. So really governments are structured carefully around this fear that if they don't force something on someone people won't accept it.  Today a large part of our economy is money lending and trade. This was also true for the Chola empire and was what kept their economy running smoothly (Burjor 290 - 301, Dayal 208 - 213). Trade can be a very beneficial thing because it can provide you with things you don't have or would rather not take the effort to produce – but it's also a very delicate thing. This is also true of money lending – both require a confidence between the traders/money lenders. If people are comfortable with each other than they can form a connection to each other allowing them to do things like trade freely. However people with lots to lose may always have a fear that others will try to take this away from them. When the Indo-China trade became very strong the Sri Vijaya empire tried to make more profit from their passage which was essential to the voyage and trading. At this point Rajaraja I attacked Sri Vijaya because he felt threatened and was afraid he might lose all that he had (Burjor 297). If people are able to trust each other and work together than no one will be afraid and more progress can be made to break new frontiers for anything.

Whether or not people realize it – most people see things in a very select way. The things they see are driven by emotions like fear. When you're able to let some of your emotions go you're able to see things from a different perspective and sometimes you can see things that you couldn't see before. When we look at the big picture of the Chola Empire we can find connections that can help us see how certain things connected in a way that made them successful (Burjor 300). A few of the reasons for trade prosperity were put into a web below and the some connections were made.

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In 2008 the stock market crashed because some of the worlds largest banks were having debt and mortgage problems and the fear that the banks conjured radiated into the stock market where everyone became afraid and all the countries fell into an economic crisis. Everything was connected like a set of dominoes and when one domino got knocked over everything came crashing down Everyday things in life are interconnected in a web that most people can't see – sometimes because they don't take the time to observe the world around them – but sometimes when people step back and let go of their fear it's easier for them to see.

Fear can be a very dominating thing. It might the biggest reason it's so hard for people to change. The government has been structured to trap everybody in their own little bubble – which is alright for many people because they don't want to think about things beyond their comfort zone because it frightens them. People are afraid that they will lose what they have and so that makes them act in a very specific way controlled by their fear and are unable to step back and see the connections in the world around them that would protect them. So maybe we will never see the universe as a friendly place.

**Works Cited** Dayal, Thakur Harendra,    ****  __ Ancient Culture of India. __   **     **   United States New Jersey: Humanities Press Inc. 1962     **  <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> **<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Wadhwani, M.R. Toshi, P.S. Pradhan, T.V.    ****<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> __ Ancient India – History, Civilization and culture __    ****<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">. New Dehli: Chand and Co, 1968 **
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Burjor, Avasi. India:     ****<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> __ The Ancient Past __    ****<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">  . United States New York, 2001     **
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