Indian trade
- Their arts and crafts were umatched for their beauty and skill
Silk Road
- A trade route that allowed many different reions to gain accesss to goods
- Name came from Chinese meaning silk trade
trade travel
- passed through mountain peaks, deserts, plains and forests
- robbers stole important goods
- used flat bottomed boats and rafts
Hinduism
- they believed in reincarnation
- Brahma the least worshiped god created the universe while the other two are responsible for preservation and destruction
- Vishnu in charge of preservation of the universe (worshiped in north india)
- Shiva is incharge of destruction of earth so our lives can be more constructive (Worshiped in south india)
- Priests controlled the religion and beliefs
- Worshiped in temples
Buddhism
- Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism
- follow the Eightfold Path, called the Middle Way between desire and self-denial
- they believed in reincarnation
- world is created and destroyed repeatedly
- less popular than hinduism
- different forms of buddhists
- some worshiped buddha
- stupas contained artifacts and stuff about buddhism
- people worshiped here
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