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Chapter 3: Classical IndiaAP World History I
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AgendaAgenda
• 1. Warm-up #12: China and its 1. Warm-up #12: China and its DynastyDynasty
• 2. Vocabulary #2: China2. Vocabulary #2: China• 3. Reading: Women in Patriarchal 3. Reading: Women in Patriarchal
SocietiesSocieties– Pg. 50-51 Pg. 50-51
• 4. 3-2-1 Exit Activity4. 3-2-1 Exit Activity•
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Warm-up #12: China and its Warm-up #12: China and its Dynasty Dynasty
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Classical China society.
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Strengths
• Active Economy, Trade/Resources like Silk
• Isolation***-Keeps – Invaders out (Great Wall of China)
• Advancement in Technology
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Weaknesses
• Social inequalities
• People were taken advantage of, suffered, and the strong central government produced a class of peasants/merchants that suffered under Chinese Dynasties.
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Vocabulary #2: Chapter 2-China
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The Impact of Geographic Determinism in India• India was much closer to the “orbit of other
civilizations” than China• Open to influences from the Middle East
and the Mediterranean world.• Persian ideas spill into Classical India at
times• Alexander the Great invades India and
spreads Hellenistic culture to India
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India’s Location in the World
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Geography
• India is partially separated from East Asia via the Himalayan Mountains.– Passes through these mountains formed
cultural ties with the Middle East, yet isolated China.
• Divisions within the Indian Subcontinent made unity difficult– Greater diversity than China’s Middle Kingdom
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Geography
• Agricultural regions exist between the Indus river and Ganges River
• Mountainous northern region is where herding takes root.
• Southern coastal rim is where active trading and seafaring economy grows
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Geography• The differences in geography and
activities along the Indian subcontinent help to explain the economic, racial, and language diversity that exists in India even to this day!
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Climate
• Much of India is semi-tropical– In the River Valley plains
summer brings monsoons.
– Indian population has been forced to adjust to the monsoon cycle…for good, and bad
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Indian Development• Indian’s civilization was shaped by what
is known as the “formative” period between the fall of the Indus RVC and the establishment of a full Indian Civilization.– 1600 to 1000 BCE: Aryan Invasions
• 1500 to 1000 BCE: Vedic Age• 1000 to 600 BCE: Epic Age
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Formative Period• Aryans were Indo-European migrant
hunting and herding peoples from Central Asia.– Aryan invasions were separate, unrelated, but
common occurrences. Aryans often attacked and subjugated peoples.
• During the Vedic Age (1500 to 1000 BCE) Indian agriculture extended from the Indus to the more fertile Ganges River Valley.– Aryans used iron tools to clear away the
dense vegetation.
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Literary Traditions
• Much of what we know about the “pre-classical” India comes from literary epics developed by the Aryans– Passed on orally, at first– Then, written in Sanskrit
• Sacred books were known as the VEDAS
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The Vedas
• Vedic Age (first part of the Formative period) comes from Sanskrit “Veda” or “knowledge.”
• Rig-Veda: the first epic, with 1028 hymns dedicated to Aryan gods.
• During the EPIC age, more stories were created…
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Literature during the Epic Age• The Mahabharata: India’s greatest epic
poem• The Ramayana: deals with real and
mystical battles– These show a more organized, civil life than
the Rig-Veda
• Upanishads: Epic poems with a religious flavor
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Impact of Aryan Society
• Tight level of village organization– Village chiefs organize defenses and
property control
• Family structure emphasizes patriarchal controls with strong extended family relationships
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Aryan Social Structure
• Aryan Social Classes (varnas)– Warrior/Governing class (Kshatriyas)– Priestly class (Brahmans)
– Traders and farmers (Vaisyas)– Common Laborers (Sudras)
– UNTOUCHABLES
• During the EPIC age, the Brahmans displace the Kshatriyas at the top of the social order
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The Indian Caste System
• The Five Social groups become hereditary, with marriage between castes forbidden, punishable by death.– Smaller sub-captions of castes (jati) began
• Aryans brought a religion of many gods and goddesses who regulate natural forces and have human qualities
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The Classical Age
• By 600 BCE, India had passed through its formative phase.– Regional political units grew in size– Cities and trade expanded– Development of the Sanskrit language– A full classical civilization could now build
on themes developed during the Vedic and Epic ages
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Classical Civilization
• India did not take on the convenience of the rising and falling of dynasties, like in China. – Irregular power flow– Consisted of invasions, and religious conflict
• By 600 BCE, 16 major states existed in the plains of Northern India– The most powerful: Magadha, established
dominance over a considerable empire.
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Alexander the Great
• In 327 BCE, Alexander the Great, conquered most of Greece and the Middle East…establishes a border state, called Bactria.
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Mauryan Empire
• 322 BCE, a young soldier named Chandragupta Maurya seized power along the Ganges River.
• He becomes the first ruler of the Mauryan Dynasty who will rule most of the Indian Subcontinent
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Chandragupta Maurya
• Maintained large armies with thousands of chariots and elephant borne troops
• Highly autocratic
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Ashoka
• Chandragupta’s grandson, ASHOKA (269-232 BCE) was at first, governor of two Indian provinces– Leads Mauryan
conquests in the whole subcontinent of India, minus the southern tip
– bloodthirsty
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Ashoka
• Converts to Buddhism– Dharma-law of moral
consequences– Vigorously propagates
Buddhism throughout India
– Urges officials to be humane, and insists that they see over the moral welfare of the people
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After Ashoka
• The empire begins to fall apart.
• No real long-term impact of governing style, etc.
• Buddhism persists for some time, though
• The Kushans invade India– Kanishka converts to
Buddhism, but hurts the religion because he is foreign
• Kushan state collapses by 220 CE, followed by a century of instability
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The Gupta Empire• Beginning in 320 CE,
the GUPTA Empire takes hold– No individual rulers as
influential as the Mauryan rulers
– Greatest period of stability for classical India
– Overturned in 535 CE by the Huns
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Politics in Classical India
• Unlike China and Greece/Rome, India does not develop complex political ethics systems– REGIONALISM– DIVERSITY IN
POLITICAL FORMS
• Depend heavily on the power of their large armies
• Claimed that they were appointed by the gods to rule– Support for Hinduism
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Politics in Classical India• Gupta Empire creates a
demanding taxation system
• Did NOT create an extensive bureaucracy– Allowed local rulers to
maintain regional control as long as they pledge support to the Gupta Empire
• No single language was imposed– Sanskrit was the language
of educated people.• Spread uniform law codes• Patrons of
art/literature/university life• Engaged in road building• The Gupta Empire is
considered to be a GOLDEN AGE of Indian History
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Politics in Classical India
• Political culture was not very elaborate– Thinking encouraged
efficient authority but not a spread of political values like Confucianism in China or the interest in political ethics in Rome and Greece
• Ashoka saw an ethic for good behavior in Buddhism, but Buddhist leaders were not involved in the affairs of the state.
• Indian Religion stressed the importance of priests as sources of authority
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The Caste System
• Became more complex after the Epic Age
• The 5 classes subdivided into over 300 jati
• Determined who one could eat with/marry, etc.
• Hereditary principals became stronger
• Upward mobility could occur within ones caste, but rarely to a new caste
• This was the most rigid overall framework for a social structure in any of the classical civilizations
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The Caste System
• In a sense, the caste system led to tolerance
• Avoided outright slavery
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Effects on Economy and Society• Caste system
dominated economic and social life.
• Lower Caste individuals had very few rights
• Family life echoes that theme of hierarchy and organization
• As agriculture became better organized and improved technology reduced women’s economic contributions, the stress on male authority expanded
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Economy and Society
• Arranged marriages come about during this time as a means of ensuring solid economic links
• The family was a core unit– A man’s wife is his
truest friend– Children were
pampered
• Patriarchal family was subtly different from that in China– Indian culture featured
strong-willed female goddesses, which contributed to women’s status as wives and mothers.
– Stories celebrate women’s beauty
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Economy
• A Vibrant economy, rivaling China’s• New uses for chemistry• Steel was the best in the world• Textiles: Cotton cloth, and cashmere• Artisans formed guilds and sold their
goods from shops• Emphasis on trade and merchant activity
was greater than in China
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Economy
• Indian merchants enjoyed high caste status
• Traveled widely• Seafaring people along the southern
border, usually out of the control of the large northern empires were active traders
• Southern Indians, known as Tamils, traded cotton, silks, dyes, drugs, gold, and ivory.
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Indian Influence• Indian dominance on
the waters of Southern Asia carried goods and influence well beyond the Indian Subcontinent.
• While India did not attempt political domination of Southeast Asia, it influenced its development greatly
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Indian Influence
• Buddhism spreads from India to many parts of southeast Asia.
• India influence affects China by the end of the classical period
• With the fall of the Gupta Empire, the classical age is over (later than China and Rome) BUT an identifiable image of India remained (unlike China and Rome)
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Ch’India…contrasts
• Restraint of Chinese art and poetry contrast with the more dynamic styles of India.
• India rests upon a singular religion, while China has different philosophies and religions
• Social rigidity in India• Political structure and values more structured in
China than in India.• Science: Indians venture into math more than
Chinese
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Ch’India-Similarities
• Agricultural societies– Large peasant class organized in close knit
villages– Cities and merchant activity was vital yet
secondary role– Political power lay with those who own the
land– Patriarchy