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HISTORY - INDIA
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2. Indus River Valley Civilizations
Dravidian Era (3500/3000 B.C B.C.)
dark skinned people
no written records: artifacts for studying
polytheistic: worshipped animals

3. Vedic Period – Aryan Invasion
Vedic Age (2000 B.C B.C.)
Aryans: fair skin
racist: no mixing w/ Dravidians, create caste system
were farmers, not urban dwellers
fun-loving (gambling, dancing, chariot races)
stories (Vedas) had been passed down by oral tradition
stories later written in Sanskrit in next age (500BC): told of life in Vedic Age

4. Epic Age – formation of castes
Epic Age (900 B.C B.C.)
Castes: Brahmans (rel. leaders)
Kshatriya (warriors)
Vaisya (merchants, bankers, businessmen)
Sudra (farm & city workers)
Untouchables ("out"castes) dark skinned,
accepted position, in gutter

5. Persian Invasion Persian Invasion (500 B.C. - 300 B.C.)
Darius conquered & controlled Punjab

6. Greek Invasion Greek Invasion (327 B.C. - 323 B.C.)
Alexander the Great: overextended soldiers & empire – forced to turn back
contracted fever in Babylon & died

7. Mauryan Empire Mauryan Dynasty (320BC – 200 BC)
Chandragupta: great warrior; ruled with terror
over threw Selucius
created 1st Indian Empire: central control

8. Gupta Empire Gupta Empire (300 – 500)
Benevolent: based on Buddhist teachings
creative culture (literature)
Advanced in math (decimal system, zero, algebra, Arabic numerals)

9. Muslim Empire (Mughals)
Invasion by Turkish Muslims (mounted archers with elephants)
destroyed Buddhist temples
lower castes embraced Islam
Gave rise to Sikhs: Muslims with adaptations of Hinduism
Mughal Empire (1200s)
formed Mughal Empire under Bahbur
Bahbur’s grandson, Akbar the Great
Akbar’s grandson: Shah Jihan
Taj Mahal to Mumtaz Mahal by Shah Jihan (her husband)
(she had died after 14th child)

10. European Invasion Age of European Imperialism (1500s – 1947)
1498 – Portugal took Sri Lanka (spice market)
1707 – Dutch East India company took Sri Lanka from Portugal
French Mississippi Company took Western cities of India
British East India Company took Western Cities of India
– hired SEPOYS to help in fight
1857 – Sepoys rebelled – led to general rebellion
Led to annexation of entire sub-continent – Mughal rule ended
Queen Victoria became EMPRESS VICTORIA
Next 100 yrs – British ruled India & forced Indian farmers to grow cash crops

11. Indian Independence Indian Independence (1910-1947)
not many British really cared about India
1920s – Gandhi turned Congress into organization of mass mobilization
Complete non-cooperation with British government
1930s – violent reaction to depression
1940s – War brought disaster to Bengal – food prices soured
Millions died of starvation
Jinnah called for a separate Pakistan
1947 (15 August) – two nations formed
Dislocations and rioting
10,000,000 uprooted by partition
300,000 – 1 mil. Deaths in civil war (moving, lines of nations) (Gandhi fasted)
Expulsions, riot, killings, refugees, racism
Kashmir still not settled