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Megasthenes’s work, Indika - Coggle Diagram

- - - - seas on both sides
      - large rivers and huge mountains
- - - - Food
        
        India grows lot of millet
        
        It has two crops and a monsoon
        
        eat rice pottage
      - Mount Meru
        
        From here Dionysus and Hercules came
        
        and lived here
        
        he believes
        
        Mt.Meru considered as
        
        Center of all physical
        
        metaphysical, and
        
        spiritual universe
      - India divided into seven castes
        
        Brahmins smallest in numbers
        
        Kshatriyas
        
        doesn´t speak about Vaishyas
        
        economy didn't have
        
        much trade or banking at the time
        
        divide rest of the castes
        
        peasants, herdsmen, artisans
        
        administration and councillors
      - Justice System
        
        had no jail
        
        amputation of limbs or death
      - Indians Socio-Cultural
        
        Indians are simple and frugal
        
        though like ornaments
        
        Dislike mobs
        
        consequently they observe good order
      - Talks about
        
        India´s location
        
        dimensions and topography