Classical+India


 * 3.1 ESPIRIT Chart on India**

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 * E || ** Economic: ** * Export Drugs, Stell, Spices and Textiles
 * Import Wine, Slaves, Pottery, Ivory and Metals
 * Economic ties w/ Africa, China adn the Middle East etc. (surrounding them)
 * Agriculture is still the main dominance ||
 * S || ** Social: ** *
 * The caste system structured India’s social framework
 * Low-case people had few legal rights and servant were often abused by their masters
 * A Brahman that killed a servant for misbehavior = penalty but not worse than if he had killed an animal
 * Indians in peasant villages = less contact with people of higher social castes
 * Village’s leaders were charged with trying to protect peasants
 * Husbands and Fathers dominance = strong
 * India code of law “wife worship her husband as a god”
 * Man dominance over women = greater in theory then when it was “practiced”
 * Loving relations/sexual pleasure modified family life. ||
 * P || ** Political: ** * Diversity in language damaged the trade and social unification
 * No real centralized government
 * Political rule dictated by Indian Caste System
 * Ruled by Philosophy (Regionalism) ||
 * I || ** Interactions: ** * Keep economic ties w/ surrouding countries
 * influenced by regions surrounding them
 * influenced regions surrouding them ||
 * R || ** Religion: ** *
 * Religion keep-up by mystics/brahman priests
 * Influenced by Hinduism and Buddhism
 * People expected to lead good lives to get back "reincarnation" ||
 * I || ** Cultural & Intellectual: ** * Produced Art
 * Universities were built
 * Classes: Agriculture, Relgion, Architecture, Medice and Philosophy Kamasutra -
 * Had books that discussed relationships between men and women
 * Spherical shrines to Buddha ||
 * T ||  **Technology and demographic changes**:  * Importatnt steps in Astronomy and Medicine
 * Created Numbering System ||

Terms for Classical India edas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, etc. Having an extremely diversified character with philosophy and theology schools, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. || (Law of Moral Consequences) ||
 * 3.2 Key Terms and Thesis**:
 * Aryans || Indo-European migrants nomadic pastoralists who replaced Harappan civilization; military society. ||
 * Ashoka || Grandson of Chandragupta Maurya; completed conquests of Indian subcontinent; converted to Buddhism and sponsored spread of new religion through his empire. ||
 * Gupta || Dynasty established by a new line of kings after Kushan state collapsed; built empire that extended to all but the southern regions of Indian sub-continent; less centralized than Mauryan Empire. ||
 * Caste system || The system of social classes in India in which classes are defined by hereditary groups. From top to bottom it goes, priest, warriors, merchants/landowners, commoners/peasants/servants, and street sweepers/latrine cleaners. ||
 * Hinduism || Common religion in India based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers and developed in the V
 * Sanskirt || The sacred and classical Indian language. Basically the first literary language of the new culture after Aryans. ||
 * Upanishads || During the Epic Age which were epic poems with a more mystical religious flavor. ||
 * Dharma || The caste position and career determined by a person’s birth; Hindu culture required that one accept one’s social position and perform occupation to the best of one’s ability in order to have a better situation in the next life
 * Buddhism || A religion founded by Buddha in India and later spread to china, Hurma, Japan, Tuber and parts of Southeast Asian. Says that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enlightenment that enables one to halt the endless sequence of births and deaths. ||
 * Tamils || Seafaring peoples along the southern coast, outside the large empires of northern India, traded cotton and silks, dyes, drugs, gold, and ivory, earning fortunes. ||
 * Chandragupta Maurya || A young soldier who seized power along the Ganges River and founded the Maurya dynasty; established first empire in Indian subcontinent; first centralized government since Harappan civilization. ||
 * Gurus || Originally referred to as Brahmans who served as teachers for the princes of the imperial court of the Guptas. ||
 * Bhagavad Gita || Portion of the Mahabharata, having the form of a dialogue between the hero Arjuna and his charioteer, the avatar Krishna, in which a doctrine combining Bhrahmanical and other elements is evolved. ||

Both Classical India and Classical China displayed similiar characteristics in gender roles and family life, but the social structures in each country differed in terms of rigidity, opportunity, and organization. When it came to women and men, man always had dominance over women adn they were supposed to worship their husbands as if they were gods. Patriarchal Society was used both in China and India and people generally lived with extended families. In India they had arranged marriges for family's well-being and they still do today but not as much.
 * 3.3 Summary on Chapter:**