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Harrapans
Religion/Culture
Around 5 million people
Good housing
Possibly spoke dravidian
Not much known about gov and religious beliefs
No temples or religous seeming buildings
Husbands moved to wives houses
Sati women jumping into cremation with there dead husbands
Exported food metals and wood
Just fell apart around 1700 bce
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Other
Two major cities harrupa mohenjo-daro 1500 smaller cities inside now part of pakistan farming not as possible in tropical areas, wet monsoon and dry monsoons, monsoon is wind pattern
Buddhism
Predicted to eventually spread out and become a major faith
Creator Siddhartha was once a leader of what is now nepal
had a lavish life but quit to try to be a holy man
final goal is enlightenment
you must not be ascetic which means you have nothing or be to lavish you must take the middle path
"Life has suffering and sorrow the root of all suffering is desire" that stands for what it means to be buddhist
Jainism
Mahavira is leader
was pampered son of a chief
died during asceticism
Shang/Zhou
Culture/Religion
Shang started dynastic cycle and mandate of heaven
Zhou was the first extremely large dynasty and grew china a lot
didn't have a solid grid on society so started warring periodZhou
- warring states period 500 bce
- started ignoring the king to gain supremacy over smaller countries
- invented compasses and had very good technology
- magic
- spirits still with us so they honored dead ones a lot
- confucianism daoism legalism
- had a changing fluid environment
- confucius most common philosophy
- told ancient wisdom rather than creating his own
- daoism lao tzu mengzi
- conform to nature not society
- legalism state controls
Tech/Geography
- power went to yellow river basin
- good water control
Other
Xia was the first dynasty
Bonds of unity
Collective group rather than individual
China was so large that they were bigger during zhou than canada is now
Ancient religion unhevation of ancestors
China is the main power in asia throughout most of history from their perspective similar to how america views themselves as the greatest in everything such as music food and technology
Dynastic cycles (many dynasties)
Mandate of heaven
heaven as in where gods and goddesses are
Legitimacy because they help out good rulers
and dont bad rulers is when the gods trust a leader with a society and the citizens listen because the gods trust them supposedly
Oracle bone
was used for predicting the future
what the gods intended predicted things like
Wars and weather burned it and interpreted how
It would crack pictures on it that aren’t spoken
So everyone can read it
Qin
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Other
- was the strongest in zhou so when zhou fell they took over
- li si was start and conquer
- shi huangdai is the first emperor
Han
Other
eurasian trade major force
- china had many empires that were different over a short period of time
SIMA QIAN
Lived 145-90 bce
Dying father asked him to keep track of china and all surrounding countries
Extremely famous and good historian from han dynasty
Though he worked with wu di he warned about him having too much power206 bce-220 ce
Progressed china so far that they called themselves sons of han after era
Largest population but not territory
Wu di sent conqueror troops
TradeBasic structure stayed in china til 20th century
Very organized system
Educated men called mandarins
The royalty lived extremely lavishly
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Aryans
Culture/Religion
Were lighter skin than most others
caste was in order of lightness of skin lighter at the top
downfall because of military conflict
A Raja is the leader of the tribe
Bards wrote poems about gods
Bharata was the most powerful tribe
women were valued in early society but started meaning less and less
religion similar to hittites
polytheists
adapted the culture of people that they met on travels
moved to ganges valley
4 class caste
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Other
-Came after Harappans but in same area
-some say came before harappans
-used Vedas as writing
-tribes that frequently moved
-when they invaded dravidians fled
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