States, Cities

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States, Cities Religion

• 600-300 BCE

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• I. Shifting social context in northern SA
• II. Shramanic religious traditions
• III. 2 types of states
• IV. Languages
• V. Debating the Vedic corpus
• VI. Urbanism, trade debate

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I. Shifting Social Context in Northern SA

• Cities
• States
• Religious traditions
• Debate

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II. Shramanic religious traditions

• Vedic criticism
• New forms of ritual ethics
• Shramanas
• Gautama Buddha
• Mahavira

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III. 2 Types of States

• Gana-sabha
• Kingdom
• Ganges Plain/Gangetic Plain

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IV. Languages

• Dravidian family
• Austro-Asiatic family
• Vedic Sanskrit
• Sanskrit
• Prakrits in Indo-Aryan family

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V. Debating the Vedic Corpus

• Katha Upanishad later Vedic
• Kutadanta Sutta Buddhist (shramanic)
• Samhita
• Brahmana
• Sacrifice

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VI. Urbanism, Trade Debate

• Did urbanism encourage speculation debate?
  How/why?
• Did cities trade support development of
  shramanic traditions? How/why?