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Ancient India

Ancient India. Microlecture 2 Vedic India. The Beginning of the Vedic Period. Sometime between 2500 and 1800 BCE Aryans began moving into India Apparently NOT the cause of the fall of Indus Civilization Farmers without written language Used Khyber Pass. Vedic India.

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Ancient India

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  1. Ancient India Microlecture 2 Vedic India

  2. The Beginning of the Vedic Period • Sometime between 2500 and 1800 BCE • Aryans began moving into India • Apparently NOT the cause of the fall of Indus Civilization • Farmers without written language • Used Khyber Pass

  3. Vedic India • Whoever the post-Indus civilization was: • Brought with them an oral tradition known as the Vedas (truth) • Oldest and best known is Rigveda • Collection of stories including beginning of world, Vedic people’s victory over others in India, drinking songs • Reveres Indra • Monistic Creation

  4. Rigveda

  5. How do we get along? • Upanishads, Ramayana • salt in water & the cycle of Samsara • Dharma & Caste • Punishments & Rewards in the Vedic/Hindu system of thought • Karma, Dharma, Caste, & Samsara • The Ramayana - Vishnu’s take on death

  6. Mahavira & the Jain Answer • Asceticism in Hinduism • keeping karma pure • Jains & extreme asceticism • Wandering the world without harming it

  7. “The Middle Path:” Buddhism • Siddartha Gautama • Life is suffering • Suffering is caused by desire • Suffering can be ended by eliminating desire • 8-fold path • Success eliminating suffering allows escape from Samsara

  8. Indian Mathematics • By 100CE, Indian Mathematicians had developed what has now become the world standard numerical system. • Base 10 • Place-holder system • Use of “0” in unoccupied places • Single digit numerical symbols

  9. Indian Impact on Ancient World • A unique view of human relationship to nature that solved the problems of civilization in terms of mind and spirit, rather than technology. • Trade of goods and ideas • Maritime technology • Mathematics that would assist other cutures in building technology

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