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HEI in India; Foundations Era

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  • Indo-European migrations
  • irrigation
  • Indus River
  • environmental degradation
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Culture in India; Foundations Era

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  • polytheism
  • Vedism
  • Rigveda (hymn text)
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Politics in India; Foundations Era

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  • Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa
  • city-states led by kings
  • Aryan invasions
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Economics in India; Foundations Era

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  • trade with Mesopotamia

* spread of agriculture

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Social Structures in India; Foundations Era

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  • labor specialization
  • patriarchy
  • emergence of hierarchies
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HEI in India; Classical Era

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  • appearance of smallpox and bubonic plague

* impact of city-building and agriculture

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Culture in India; Classical Era

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  • emergence of Hinduism; Brahman, dharma
  • Upanishads and Vedas
  • Indian epics
  • Sanskrit
  • Buddhism; Siddhartha Gautama
  • Golden Age of math, art, literature
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Politics in India; Classical Era

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  • Mauryan Empire (Ashoka + pillar edicts)
  • Gupta Empire (Chandra Gupta)
  • Kautilya’s “Arthashastra” handbook
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Economics in India; Classical Era

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  • Indian Ocean trade
  • standard currencies, weights, measures
  • intensive agriculture
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Social Structures in India; Classical Era

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  • cities - Pataliputra
  • caste system (Law of Manu)
  • patriarchy (sati)
  • diaspora communities
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HEI in India; Post-Classical Era

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  • cities

* agriculture

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Culture in India; Post-Classical Era

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  • diffusion of Hinduism and Buddhism

* Islam arrives

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Politics in India; Post-Classical Era

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  • disunity
  • Sultanate of Delhi (Muslim North and Hindu South)
  • Mahmud of Ghazni
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Economics in India; Post-Classical Era

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  • city of Calicut

* Indian Ocean trade - spices, cotton

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Social Structures in India; Post-Classical Era

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  • Hindu patriarchy - sati and seclusion

* Muslim patriarchy - veiling, seclusion, polygamy

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HEI in India; Age of Exploration

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*arrival of new crops via Columbian Exchange

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Culture in India; Age of Exploration

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  • Sikhism - Guru Nanak
  • miniature painting
  • Shah Jahan and the Taj Mahal
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Politics in India; Age of Exploration

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  • Mughal Empire - Babur
  • Akbar the Great (tolerance)
  • joint-stock companies arrive
  • Aurangzeb (intolerance)
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Economics in India; Age of Exploration

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  • trade with Europeans

* Indian Ocean trade

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Social Structures in India; Age of Exploration

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  • tolerance and tensions among religions
  • Hinduism and patriarchy
  • Islam and patriarchy
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HEI in India; Age of Industrialization

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  • resources (cotton, rubber, spices, coffee, metals)
  • treatment for diseases (malaria)
  • cash-crop monoculture
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Culture in India; Age of Industrialization

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  • Sepoy Rebellion (caused by religious issues)
  • influence of Christianity
  • Gateway to India arch
  • early national liberation movements
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Politics in India; Age of Industrialization

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  • Sepoy Rebellion
  • fracturing of Mughal Empire
  • training of native troops by imperial powers (sepoys)
  • British colonization
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Economics in India; Age of Industrializaiton

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  • economic imperialism
  • construction of infrastructure by Western powers
  • industrialization of cotton trade
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Social Structures in India; Age of Industrialization

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  • undermining of caste system by British
  • Indian migration
  • British struggle against sati
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HEI in India; 1900-present

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*Green Revolution

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Culture in India; 1900-present

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  • adoption of Western high culture
  • religious fundamentalism
  • Bollywood
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Politics in India; 1900-present

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  • national liberation (Indian National Congress)
  • Mohandas Gandhi and satyagraha
  • All-India Muslim League
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • partition between India/Pakistan
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Economics in India; 1900-present

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*effects of World Bank and IMF

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Social Structures in India; 1900-present

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*ethnic violence and anti-immigration sentiment

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