1. India: History and Culture
Title page 58, India: History and Culture

2. History Foldable (Ch. 25.2) Guiding question:
What impacts have the groups that ruled India had on its culture?
Aryan
Mauryan
Gupta
Mughal
British

3. Ancient History Aryans 1500- ~300 BC
Bring early form of Sanskrit (language from which Hindi is derived)
Religious ideas
Large Pantheon
Strict system of social classes
Settled in Gangetic Plain
Siddhartha Gautama

4. Ancient History Mauryans (320 BC- 400 AD) Gupta (400- 1000 AD)
1st empire to unite almost all of India
Spread Buddhism
Gupta ( AD)
Architecture, art, literature, math

6. Ancient History Mughal Empire (1500- 1700s) Islamic empire
Allowed conquered people to practice their own religion
Taj Mahal

8. European Influence Europeans arrive in 1500 (remember the Portuguese?)
By1700s, British control India (Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are part of India at this time)
British East India Company
Sepoy Revolt 1857 Victoria becomes the “Empress of India”

10. European Influence British influence:
“jewel in the crown” of the British empire
Cotton
Jewels
Tea
English Language
Modern Infrastructure:
Railroads
Roads
Ports
Parliamentary Gov.