World History Jigsaw; South Asia

Jason KimAshlee Yoonji Reem

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Historical Figures

Mahavira

• Lived through 599-527 BC

• Indian sage Vardhamana

• Who made the Jainism and its central tenets

• the last Tirthankara – human who achieves the enlightment through ascetism(24th)

Gautama Buddha

• 563 BCE – 483 BCE

• Ancient India’s spiritual teacher

• Beginner of Buddhism

• Four Noble Truths

• Noble Eightfold Path

• Dependent Origination

Prithvi Narayan Shah

1723 – 1775

• 9th generation descendant of Dravya Shah ( Founder of the rulling house of Gorkha)

• succeeded King Nara Bhupal Shah to king or Gorkha

• King of Nepal

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

• Indian Muslim Politician

• Founded Pakistan

• Severed as a first governor general

• Birth and Death Date – national holiday

in Pakistan

Ahmad Shah Abdali

• 1747 - 1773

• settled Abdali tribe – cpatured Ghazni from Ghilzai Pashtuns, wrested Kabul from local ruler

• Strengthened the modern Afghanistan

• was the founder of the Durrani empire

Government

Types of Government

• Nepal: kingdom - empire - dynasties - absolute monarch

• Afghanistan: monarchy - republic - multiparty republic

• India: Empire -Federal Republic

• Pakistan: republic - anominal democracy

• Generally Republic

Culture

Architecture

• (Afghanistan) The Majsjid-i-Jami; Friday Mosque, 800 year old structure in the old area of Herat. Built during the Timurid dynasties in the 9th-15th centuries.

• - The Minaret at Jam, Built in the 12th century• (Nepal) Char Narayan, the oldest temple in Patan's Darb

ar Square. Built in 1565• (Pakistan) Jahangir ; the ruler of Mughal Dynasty. In 162

5, the young Shah Jahan built Jahangir's tomb ¨• (India) Lakshmana temple; dedication to Lord Vishnu, 93

0-950 AD during the reign of King Yasovarman of the Chandella kingdom.

Writings

Philosophy

• GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK

• PARTHA CHATTERJEE