1. Mauryan and Gupta India

2. Review What is the geography of India?
What two belief systems developed in India?
Mountains in the Northeast
Calm and predictably flooding Indus river
What weather pattern helped establish the Monsoon Marketplace?
Why don’t we have much information about the ancient Indians?
We can not translate their ancient language
Monsoons- seasonal winds

3. Maurya India 321-185 BCE Chandragupta Maurya conquered North India
Chandragupta was able to unite most of northern India, and his descendants
continued to grow the empire.

4. Mauryan India Set up a bureaucracy
Created more roads and harbors to lead more trade= Infrastructure
Maurya was a ruthless dictator. He used a secret police to spy on the people, looking for crime and corruption.

5. Bureaucracy
Form of government where appointed officials collect taxes, oversee building projects and agriculture
Bureaucracies help the government handle the workload of maintaining a stable government
Emperor
Financial appointee
Agricultural appointee
Tax collector
Financial officials
Agricultural appointees
Tax collectors

6. Ashoka the Great The grandson of Maurya led from 268 BCE
Ashoka began as a typical king, leading a military conquest of Northern India and more than doubled the Indian empire
Dynasty!!

7. Ashoka the Great
Ashoka was horrified by the deaths of his men, over 100,000 dead
Ashoka rejected further conquest and created a peaceful nation
He Converted to Buddhism and promised to rule though moral example
9:20

8. Ashoka and Buddhism
Ashoka adopted the tenements (rules) of Buddhism including
- Four Noble Truths
- Eightfold path
- Peace to all
Ashoka continued to expand his empire through peaceful conquest, good leadership and tolerance

9. Edict: An official order from the government (king)
Rock Edict Pillars
Ashoka built roads, harbors, hospitals and other public works.
Peace and prosperity reined ushering in another Golden Age
Ashoka set up Rock Edict Pillars around the Empire, spreading the laws and beliefs
Edict: An official order from the government (king)

10. Gupta India CE
Golden Age: peace and prosperity led to cultural and intellectual achievements
-Trade and farming flourished
-Developed Arabic numerals and the concept of Zero
-Plastic surgery
-Vaccines

11. Gupta Math
The Gupta Indians developed Arabic Numerals to replace Roman Numerals
They also developed the concept of zero
Arabic numerals simplify math

12. Hinduism Spreads
As Hinduism spread throughout India the Caste System took hold.
Caste determined where people live, what they eat, how they dress and what jobs they can have
Untouchables were shunned and had to live separate and do “dirty” jobs. Untouchables had to announce their arrival with a wooden clapper so people could avoid them

13. Hindu Women Patriarchal- Led by Men India was a Patriarchal Society
Hindu Women achieved Dharma by obeying their husband
Higher caste women had to be covered head to foot, while lower castes worked in the fields or textile factories
The Ultimate act of loyalty: Sati
Sati- wives would burn themselves on their husbands funeral pyre

14. Sati
Comprehending why a woman would choose to commit sati, however, requires the removal of  our  western lenses. The act of self-immolation of widows on their husband’s funeral pyre may be construed as a horrific act by the Westerner but in India cases of sati have been documented in their culture for hundreds of years (Oldenburg 1994: 165).  More important, the symbolic significance of sati is intricately intertwined in the Hindu belief system.

15. Review Mauryan Empire was founded by Chandragupta Maurya Ashoka
Bindusara
Harshavardhana

16. Review What Religion did Ashoka practice that influenced his reign?
1) Hinduism
2)Judaism
3) Taoism
4) Buddhism

17. Review Ashoka Spread his laws and beliefs around India on what?
Rosetta Stone
Pyramid walls
Parchment Scrolls
Rock Pillar Edicts