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Political, Religious, Economic, Social - India Flashcards

(9 cards)

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political

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  • no solid political or cultural institution
  • went away with fragmentation
  • regionalism
  • diverse political forms
  • shaky empires
  • claims of Gods favored to rule
  • taxation
  • no extensive bureaucracy
  • no single language
  • power of the priests (real source of authority)
  • caste system
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caste system

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  • allowed for conquerors and conquered to live without conflict
  • loyalty to their caste
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religion

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  • Hinduism (under the Gupta)
  • a lot of fragmentation
  • Hinduism was cultural glue that held society together
  • no central founder
  • no central holy figure
  • Artha: political and economic goals
  • karma: worldly pleasures
  • Dharma
  • gentle, generous behavior
  • tolerance
  • helped promote continuity and cultural cohesiveness without political unity
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Upanishads

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  • stressed shallowness of worldly concerns
  • riches, health
  • attacked Brahmans view of ceremonies
  • advanced the idea of contact with divine spirit
  • reincarnation reinforces the caste system
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Dharma

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  • inter study
  • meditation (concentrate of divine spirit)
  • adheres to set of rules
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Buddhism

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  • buddha siddhartha gautama
  • taught Buddhism around India
  • accepted a lot of Hindu beliefs, but not the caste system
  • world beyond earthly existence (nirvana)
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karma sutra

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  • loving relations and sexual pleasures

- support between husband and wife

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golden age

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  • gravity
  • planets
  • set bones
  • plastic surgery
  • zero and negative number, pi, square roots
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economy

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  • dominance of husbands (as agriculture became more advanced) (women’s status declines more)
  • men were worshiped as gods?
  • under Gupta, cotton, cloth, cashmere
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