1st Civilizations: Ancient India Flashcards
Where did the civilizations emerge from and over what time period?
Indus River Valley
3000 BCE - 1500 BCE
What were the 2 major cities that the Indus Valley was broken into?
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
What weakened these cities?
The inflow of more people
What were the river peeps called?
Dravidians
Who interacted with these Dravidians and what came about from that interaction?
Nomadic Indo-European-speaking Aryans came
From their interaction a new culture came about
What did the culture (that came from the Dravidians mixing with the new nomads) create?
It created system of class distinction
What religion came about then as well?
Hinduism
What is Hinduism an expansion of?
Aryan religion
What century BCE did Buddhism come about and from whom?
6th Cent BCE
From Siddhartha Gautama
What happened when Buddhism came about?
world was viewed in new awakened way
it rivaled Hinduism
What else comes about?
many states
2 empires create more unified states
What thing created sets standard for future Centuries?
Unified states
What were the 2 empires that arose in India?
What did they both have?
Mauryan Empire and Gupta Empire
Strong central gov
& artistic achievements
What ideals did the Mauryan Empire rule with?
Buddhist
Which came first, Mauryan Empire or Gupta Empire?
Mauryan came first
Gupta came after Mauryan fell, when India was in dissaray
