Classic+India

Classic India

1. ESPIRIT Chart: technology and interactions- · India w/ Malaysia and Indonesia; traded manufactoring goods and brought parts of india riches. · Imports: pottery, wine, metals and slaves. · Exports: cotton, silk, dyes, drugs. · The silk Road: connected the Persians, chinese and other parts of the world. Trading on the silk road was for luxuary goods. · Indian merchants played greater roles in society. And the India upper class were richer than China. || · Believed in a loving family life with emotional support like the wives and husbands were ones truest friend. · Arranged marriages at very yound age. · Untouchables: bottom of the society. · **__Caste System__**: Order of the highest society of India were the Brahmirs, warriors, skilled and merchants, ordinary workers and untouchables. || · India also did not have a standard language. · India did not have a uniform code of law: region could tell one when you could marry and who one could marry. || · Two main religions: hinduism and buddhism. · Influenced the development of scientific inqury, which helped to receive a maor initiative in higher education. · Hindus referred to their religion as dharma. · Confusianism: wise advice that the citizens of China followed; teachings of confucius. ||
 * E ||  · The Tamils earned fortunes for trading over seas.
 * S ||  · Indians predicted heirarchy and believed in male supermancy. Wives were suppose to woreship their husbands like a god.
 * P ||  · Ruled by Regionism
 * I || *  Traded with China, Persia and the Middle East with using the Silk Road as a trading route for different goods.
 * India was in control of the southern waters.
 * Spread influence between sub continents that bored, and spread beyond its own limits.
 * India had an affect over China with giving influences: Buddhism and Art. ||
 * R ||  · Indian government established an openness to religious diversity.
 * I ||  · ﻿ The indians cal cutated the circumference of the Earth. ||
 * T || *  India created the spin wheel to gently thread cotton into thread for cloth and necessary for a civilization to survive.
 * Created boats called Mohenjodars to help India gather fish and cross parts of water ways.
 * Iron Smelt- could smelt the material of iron to make into different things that could be used with in the society and be traded to others.
 * During the Vedic period, India’s mathematics was composed of the Pythagorean triples and the Pythagorean Theorem.
 * Created the iron pillars to extract metal and were used for medical purposes.
 * Astronomy advances: Arybbatta calculated the length of the solar years, and improved math measurements.
 * Agricultural technologies caused a decrease in women contributions. ||

2. Comparison paragraph: Both China and India were ancient civilizations, but the two countries have similarities and difference between; newly developed society. But they both influenced one another with technology and interactions with in their own society.

Technology in China consisted of animal drafts to help agriculture, to help farming without harming the animals. Had iron tools to make stronger mining tools and created lamps to light the way when workers in the mines could see through the dark. Also made pulley and winding gear to bring back materials found in the caves that could not be found on the surface, so the pulley made it possible to bring the materials that could be used within the society to the surface. India’s technology however was different from China’s. Indian civilization created the spin wheel to make thread out of cotton gathered in the fields. Made boats called Mohenjodars: to gather fish and go through water ways.

Yet, even with the different technology there were similarities between the two civilizations. They both had advancements in tools for agriculture and both had advancements in astronomy. But, India had the smelting oven to make iron tools to use with in societies and others, China used the technology that India had to make lamps and mining tools by trading ideas with each other when trading on the Silk Road.

The two civilizations interacted with each other by taking another’s advice for making a new product or different religions or ideas and sometimes disease. China had Daoism, Lawism and Confucianism but, India later would give them the idea of Buddhism. India and China contributed with one another on make their society better with new ideas or new goods that could benefit the people.

3. Key Terms: India

__Aryans__: Citizens that founded India and were of the superior class. __ Ashoka: __ The emperor of India, started the rule of the Maurya Dynasty: which ruled till 269-232 B.C.E   __Gupta:__ An ancient empire that existed form 320-550 C.E   __ Caste System: __ A social system; a social pyramid that showed the highest social class to the lowest social class. __ Hinduism: __ The religion of the Hindu people in India. __ Sanskirt: __ An ancient literary language, spoken in the Indian tongue. __ Upanishads: __ A collection of Hindu religious and philosophical texts. __ Dharma: __ The teachings of Buddha: from Buddhism. Leading to enlightenment of ones mind and understanding. __ Buddhism: __ A religion and a philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices. __ Tamils: __ A linguistic and ethnic group, were native to the Tamil narus. __ Chandragupta Maurya: __ Founder of the Maurya empire; ruled from 340-298 B.C.E.  __ Gurus: __ a person who is regarded to have great knowledge and developmental consciousness. __ Bhagavad Gita: __ The scared writings of the Hindu religion.

4. Chapter Summary of India: Indias society was shaped by ideals through trade, religion and a social system. The Society of India was based on the __caste system__: that was based on the highest place to the lowest class. But one could not move up on the system, one was that position until they died, and could only move up on the social scale if one was revived as a higher position then one was at first. __Anyans__ were the noble class which were at the top and the social pyramid while citizens called untouchables were at the bottom. India had __hinduism__ was the religion of the hindu people, the religion had __sanskirts__ and books called __upanishads:__ a collection of religious and philosophical texts. Another religion that the Indian people followed was __Buddhism:__ a religion and a philosophy that encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices. Buddhism had an enlightenment from the religion from the teachings of buddha.