Indian Trade
- General
- Domestic trade by foreign travelers
- Delhi was the center of major trade
- Exports far exceeded imports
- Delhi had great wealth
- Red Sea and Mediterranean ports
- Arab traders shipped Indian goods to Europe
- Arts and crafts were unmatched for beauty and skill
- Silk Road
- trade route allowed many different regions to gain access to goods
- extended 4000 miles long
- most popular item traded for was silk from China
- most important aspect was the exchange of knowledge, beliefs, and cultures
- Dangers
- passed through mountain peaks, deserts, plains, forests
- mountains were the highest in the world
- only high goods would be worth the time of trade travel
- precious goods encouraged robbers to steal them
- Dangers
- Mode of Transport
- flat-bottomed boats and rafts
- two-wheel bullock carts carried heavy transport across plains
- sometimes pack animals transported goods
- Items Traded
- textiles
- furniture
- ivory
- pearls
- silk
- spices
- domestic animals
Buddhism
- Development
- Siddhartha Gautama, the founder
- looked for enlightenment, wisdom, in the forests for 6 years
- Four Noble Truths
- The way to overcome such desires and attain enlightenment is to follow the Eightfold Path, called the middle-way between desire and self-denial
- Beliefs
- reincarnation
- world is created and destroyed repeatedly
- nirvana- release from selfishness and pain
- monks
- Buddhism was spread across Asia into India
- Hinduism was more popular
- Theravada
- "the teaching of the elders" or "the ancient teachings"
- oldest surviving branch of Buddhism
- main religion of Sri Lanka
- about 150 million Theravada Buddhists in the world
- Stupas
- temples
- symbolized elements
- look like a dome
- artifacts about Buddhism like ashes of dead people
- meditation
- different types with different things-scripts belonging to Buddha
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