8000 BCE 600 BCE Himalayan Region Early Humans
8000 BCE – 600 BCE Himalayan Region Early Humans Neolithic Revolution APWH
8000 BCE – 600 BCE
8000 BCE – 600 BCE
8000 BCE – 600 BCE • Watercraft had allowed the Sumerians to venture into the Persian Gulf by 3500 B. C. E. and by 2300 B. C. E. to trade regularly with Harappan Society in Northern India. • The Indo-European homeland was most likely somewhere in the steppe region of modern day Ukraine and Southern Russia although they migrated to all parts of Europe and even Southwest Asia. • The Indo-Europeans were able to domesticate horses about 4000 B. C. E. • The Hittites an Indo-European people were responsible for the creation of war chariots about 2000 B. C. E. and the refinement of Iron metallurgy after 1300 B. C. E. • Common roots of many languages of Europe, SW Asia, and India
8000 BCE – 600 BCE • Caste system in India • Astronomy and Mathematics • Education led to an uncontrollable need to learn and math and astronomy were popular subjects. • Helped create calendars and help predict agricultural production. • Temple Communities • Organization that tried to make sure the gods were happy and gave good fortune to their communities.
8000 BCE – 600 BCE • The Aryans were herding people who spoke an Indo-European language, and who migrated to south Asia in the 1500's B. C. E • The Harappan Society was developed in the valley of the Indus river, where water was available for irrigation • The Harappans deforested their land in order to cultivate fire wood, which caused ecological degradation. • Aryans migrated throughout northern India, and had conflicts with the Dravidian people, thought they adapted their ways. • The Aryans would settle down near the Indus River at Punjab, and migrated all over the east and south.
8000 BCE – 600 BCE • From there, the Aryans settled in the area between the Himalayan foothills and the Ganges River. • Their ways of settlement, had more hurting and depended more on the economy. They practiced little amount of agriculture, while the Harappans cultivated. • The Aryans had little ways of technology, thought it was still effective. • They herded horses, and harnessed them to carts or wagons to use for transportation of for war. • During their migrations they learned how to make iron tools like axes and iron tipped plows that cleared forests.
8000 BCE – 600 BCE • Hinduism influenced philosophy • Brahmin philosophers: Shankara and Ramanuja • Upanishads: subtle reasoning and sophisticated metaphysics • Shankara: physical world was an illusion, reality lay behind the physical sense. • Ramanja: intellectual understanding of reality was more important than personal unity with a deity • Bhagavad-Gita
8000 BCE – 600 CE • Hinduism (Belief System and Religion) • Vedas – Rig Veda • Devotional cults: Vishnu and Shiva • Vishnu: preserver of the world • Shiva: Destruction and Fertility
8000 BCE – 600 BCE
8000 BCE – 600 BCE
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