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- 1Harrappan SocietyDate: 2500 - 1900 BCE
Characteristics: cultivation of cotton, wheat, and barley; planned cities; wedged form writing; system of trade and an advanced irrigation system
Where: Silt-enriched Indus River (Mohenjo-Daro and Harrappa) - 2Mohenjo-Daro- City-State
-walled city
-uniformed bricks
-sewage system
-city laid out in grid
-indoor bathrooms
-public pool w/ private changing rooms
-never fully occupied
-founded along Indus
-high point: 2500-2000 BCE - 3Dravidian-built major Harrappan society
-decline after 1900 BCE
-overtaken by Aryans "invasion"
-darker skinned sedentary inhabitants of Harrappa
-nicknamed the "dasas" by the Aryans - 4Aryan Migration-Began in 1500 BCE
-lighter skinned invaders from the north (the Steppe a.k.a. rolling hills)
-Aryan: "noble people"
-planned migration
-no united Aryan force
-domestication of horses
-nomadic pasatorialists
-the Vedas
-two languages: Pakrit (common tounge) & Sanskrit (priestly language)
-worshiped a pantheon of gods (Indra was the primary god) - 5Vedic Age-four Vedas; most important was the Rig Veda
-Vedas explain conflicts between the Aryans and the Dasas
Date: 1500-500 BCE - 6Caste System-consisted of...
Brahmins: Priests
Kashatriya: Warrior/noble class
Vaishya: Merchant
Shudra: Commoner
Harijan: Untouchables
-Jati: subsystem of castes (castes within castes)
-Also called Varna system
-emerged 1000 BCE- present day - 7Laws of Manu- used to counteract the system of sacrifice
- used to reinforce the caste system and to diminish the rights of certain castes
- explained gender roles
- can be used for inside of culture from the time
- written by the Brahmins, "created" by a demigod
- second millennium BCE - 8Upanishads- "sitting in front of"
-composed from 800-400 BCE, some as late as 1300 CE
- held ideas of the Brahman: the universal soul; Samara: reincarnation; Karma: accounting for reincarnations; Moksha: mystical ecstasy
- religion of belief
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