Journal : REMEMBER TO WRITE 3-5 SENTENCES EVERYDAY!!! Read pages to answer the following: What is a subcontinent; which one are we studying? What are the physical features of the subcontinent? Why would people from Asia enter the subcontinent through the Hindu Kush and not the Himalayas? 1. Finish India and British History 2. India Today 11/6/14

Temples: small stone structures w/ flat roofs; one-two rooms Gupta: topped w/ huge towers covered in carvings Buddhists-out of mountain side&stupas Metal Working: Alloy=mixing metal=strong Responsible for metallurgy Tools & weapons Iron -> trade (iron pillar) *no rust* Paint. & Sculpt.: religious & social pieces Daily & ceremonial life– many in temples Clear& colorful – jewelry& stylish clothes Sculpt.=carved statues of kings& Buddha Greatly respected-artists not known Math: Hindu-Arabic numerals – used today Created zero (0) – math isn’t possible w/o Religious Epics: Models for behavior Mahabharata- one of longest literary works ever! (struggle b/t 2 families) Ramayana-Prince Rama (Vishnu) rescues wife Sita (ideal ruler & marriage) Medicine: Creating encyclopedias Project against illness – inoculation Surgery (broken bones, wounds, infected tonsils, broken noses & torn earlobes) Literature: plays, poetry, etc. Kalidasa- hired by Candragupta II to teach lessons (morals & values) Spread as far as Europe Astronomy: study of stars and planets Discovered 7 of 9 planets (now 8-no Pluto) Sun=star & planets revolve around it Earth=sphere on an axis Predict eclipses

 1500s- Mughal Empire  1600s (17 th century) – British = growing power  British East India Company (not gov’t) Trading Co. (Sugar & cotton=India has)  India becomes a colony (Britain’s gov’t steps in) Colony= territory inhabited & controlled by people from a foreign land  1857 Sepoy Rebellion Sepoy= Indian troop works for the British British gov’t then fights Sepoys  Late 1800s (19 th century) Indians are STILL asking ‘why are we 2 nd class citizens in our own country?’

 Continue asking these questions in the 20 th century  Gandhi starts a non-violence movement  Protesting, fasting, boycott  This is how they earn freedom and independence India AFTER Britain  Hindu=majority  Muslims=minority  India becomes independent from Britain  they give some of India’s land to a new country, Pakistan (West Pakistan & East Pakistan)  The Pakistan’s split  West Pakistan->Pakistan; East Pakistan->Bangladesh