INDIAN CIVILIZATION

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INDIAN CIVILIZATION

• EARLIEST, SEE MAP
• Harappan Civilization
• The Indus Valley Civilization spread
• and flourished in the northwestern
• part of the Indian subcontinent from
• c. 3300 to 1300 BCE in present-day
• Pakistan and northwest India

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MAURYAN EMPIRE, INDIA

• Most of the subcontinent was conquered by the
  Maurya Empire, 400-300 BCE

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MAURYAN EMPIRE, INDIA

• 321 to 185 BC.

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MAURYAN EMPIRE, INDIA

• Chandragupta Maurya , FOUNDER
• First unifier of India
• RISE OF OTHER RELIGIONS
• HINDUISM
• JAINISM
• BUDDHISM
• LIST RELIGIONS DISCUSSED.

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• JAINISM
• Indian religion that prescribes a path of
  non-violence towards all living beings. Its
  philosophy and practice emphasize the necessity
  of self-effort to move the soul toward divine
  consciousness and liberation.

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JAINISM
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GOLDEN AGE OF INDIA

• 400-600 EC, AD
• Indians made in the fields of science,
  technology, engineering, art, dialectic,
  literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy,
  religion and philosophy during the Gupta Empire.
  The decimal numeral system, including the concept
  of zero, was invented in India during this
  period.
• GUPTA EMPIRE, 320 CE600s CE

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GUPTA EMPIRE
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GUPTA EMPIRE

• Founded by Maharaja Sri Gupta,
• dynasty was the model of a classical civilization
  
• HINDUISM THRIVED, EXPANDED

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ASHOKA

• Ashoka the Great
• Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty
• ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from
  ca. 269 BC to 232 BC
• One of India's greatest emperors

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ASHOKA

• CONVERTED TO BUDDHISM
• PROPAGATION OF BUDDHISM ACROSS ASIA

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KALINGA WAR

• As the legend goes, one day after the war was
  over, Ashoka ventured out to roam the city and
  all he could see were burnt houses and scattered
  corpses. This sight made him sick and he cried
  the famous monologue
• What have I done? If this is a victory, what's a
  defeat then? Is this a victory or a defeat? Is
  this justice or injustice? Is it gallantry or a
  rout? Is it valor to kill innocent children and
  women? Do I do it to widen the empire and for
  prosperity or to destroy the other's kingdom and
  splendor? One has lost her husband, someone else
  a father, someone a child, someone an unborn
  infant.... What's this debris of the corpses? Are
  these marks of victory or defeat? Are these
  vultures, crows, eagles the messengers of death
  or evil?
• The brutality of the conquest led him to adopt
  Buddhism, and he used his position to propagate