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Belief Systems Cultural and Intellectual Life Political Systems

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Belief Systems Cultural and Intellectual Life Political Systems

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    1. Belief Systems Cultural and Intellectual Life Political Systems

    2. GEOGRAPHIC SETTING

    5. The village is the center of life Home were built around farms Little government interference unless you forgot to pay your taxes. Life was governed by caste rules and traditions Higher castes had strict rules The rules kept them from being contaminated by the lower castes. UNTOUCHABLES were outcasts who lived harsh lives There jobs were “impure” Cleaning streets Digging graves The had to live outside of the Gupta community

    6. Joint Families: parents, children, grandparents, uncles, and their children shared a common home. Patriarchal Structure- father or oldest male heading the household Children and Marriage- learned family trade or field and that is what they were expected to do as adults. Hindu law required that people marry only within their own cast Role of Women Upper class women restricted to their home Cover themselves from head to foot when outside Lower class women worked in fields of did spinning and weaving

    7. Mathematics Zero and decimal system Arabic Numerals Medicine Herbs and other remedies to treat illness Plastic surgery on facial injuries Vaccinated people from small pox 1000 yrs before Europe. Architecture Beautiful stone temples for Hindu worship (typical shape was a square symbolizing the Earth within a circle symbolizing eternity) Stupas- large dome shaped shrines that contained remains of holy people. (elaborate carvings depicting the life of Buddha)

    8. Literature Fables and folk tales Poet, Kalidasa wrote the play Shakuntala King marries a beautiful orphan and later an evil spell causes him to forget his bride, the story ends with him recovering his memory and they are happily reunited.

    9. After about 200 years, the Gupta empire declined because of weak rulers and foreign invasions. The invaders were the White Huns from central Asia Nomads who destroyed villages And disrupted trade in the Gupta empire

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