The Foundation of Indian Society: 300 C.E.
Jainism
Key figure=Vardhamana Mahavira
argued that all beings, animals, humans, plants, and inanimate obects all had souls
Followers pursued him for bliss
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Chief's son of petty State
First settlers
Mohenjo-daro (city)--> important because of the miracules drainage system set up in the city.
Mesopatamian
traded with Indian--> goods and IDEAS
Egyption and Sumarian Civiliazations
Harappan
Center for trade and cratfts (Cities)
Aryans and Vedic Age
Over course of several centeries, the Aryans were pushed far east to the Ganges river.
Important because it goes along with iron, the Aryans had to clear miles of thick jungle to live so far east, the production of iron helped them by created usefull weapons for the forest; such as the axe.
Raja was the name for the head of or chief of the tribe
Aryans were warrior tribes who glorified military skill and heroism; loved to drink, hunt, race, and dance
Portayed as...from the Rigveda
Central source ofr aryans=Rigveda
Rigveda is a book of hyms, ritual texts, and philisophicle treatises
Speakers of sanskrit
After Indus Valley Civilazation, Aryans dominated northern India
Brahmanism
Brahaman=unchanging and ultimate reality
Samsara and Karma
Karma=Tally of good and bad deeds that determine the status of a next individual's life
Samsara=transmigration of souls by a continuative process of rebirth
Upanishads
Asceticism
Severe self-dicipline and self denial
record speculation of mystical meaning of scrifice rites.
Core of religion=sacrifice
Land
Able to farm
Agriculture 7000 B.C.E.
Wheat and Barley+Cattle, sheep, and goats
Fertile valleys and Indus and Ganges Rivers
Monsoons common each summer
Warm climate all year
India-->For this time India is the landmass of southern of the warm indian waters
