Power Point 1
Indian Empire
- Mathematics
- Great Indian mathematics named Aryabhata created *I to 4 places.
- Calculated a solar year 265.358605 days which is close to the atomic clock.
- Astronomy
- Gupta made great advancements but had lack of modern devices such as telescopes.
- First to discover seven planets in our solar system.
- Medicine
- Indiana developed the technique of inoculation.
- Inoculation- injecting a person with a small dose of virus to help him/her to build defense to a disease.
- Literature
- Writing was developed in Madurai in 100 AD, still over 2,000 poems from there today.
- Classical Indian dances are based on dance techniques from this time.
- Works of literature were written in Sanskrit.
- Performing arts
- Indian arts of this time was religious
- Work is still admired today.
- Vedas was recited and performed for concerts.
- Aryabhata- first in mathematics-astronomy.
- His most famous work was Aryabhatiya
- He was born in Bihar, India.
- Author of Mathematics and Astronomy during his time.
Power point 2
Hinduism vs. Buddhism Art
- Buddhism
- The art of Asia
- Spread from India to all corners of Asia
- Art often portrays Buddha or potential Buddhist
- Stupa- Is a mound like structure used by Buddhist as for place for Meditation.
- Hinduism
- Hindu gods were common in Hindu art.
- The art of India
- Known as Indian Art
- Art is used to invoke spirituality.
- Contrast
- The subject matter was the only difference between the arts.
- Beliefs had little influence on the Indian artistic styles.
- Compare
- The same artist created both Hindu and Buddhist art.
- Both religious traditions sacred art often takes place in a mandala (circle) formation.
Power point 3
Military Conquests
- Maurya
- Born in the powerful kingdom of Magadha.
- Chandragupta gathered an army, killed the unpopular nanda king.
- Expansion
- After he took over the Nanda Dynasty he started rapidly moving westward across central and western India.
- After Alex died Chandragupta starting taking the land the Alex had conquered from the satraps left by him.
- At his greatest point it had stretched to the north along the natural boundaries of the Himalayas, and into the east which is now Assam.
- To the west is stretched to modern day Pakistan.
- Conclusion
- The Mauryan Empire was the biggest to rule the Indian Subcontinent.
Power point 4
Hinduism
- Bolded terms
- Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva
- The three gods of the Hindu Triumvirate,
- Vishnu- is the preserver of the universe.
- Shiva- tries to destroy the world in order to re-create it.
- Brahma- created the world and all its creatures.
- Facts
- Some animals thought to be holy.
- Cows- milk and other dairy.
- Peacocks- Kartikera, the son of Shiva.
- Hinduism
- Has no founder but based off multiple traditions
- It is one of the oldest living religions in the world.
- Hinduism has about 1 billion followers.
- One of the cool aspect of Hindus is they believe in Karma.
- They go along with the law of conservation of energy.
- Energy can never be created of destroyed.
- So basically what we call death isn’t the soul is simply transforming.
- Kalidasa- poet and writer.
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