Deities
- Brahma- the hindu creator god
- Vishnu-The hindu preservor
- Shiva- The hindu destroyer god
Brahma
- senior member of the great gods
- he felt alone and seperated from the world
Vishnu
- god of preservation
- often represeted resting on the coil serpent Shesha
- Never sleeps
Shiva
- the destroyer of the world
- often has a third eye
- sometimes represented as half man half woman
Buddhism
Stupas
- mound like structure
- typically the shes of deceased
- used by buddhists as a place of mediteration
- 5 types of stupas relic, object, commemoratitive, symbolic, symbolic
Buddhism
- historians estimate that fout that founder of buddhism is siddhartha Gautama commonly known as buddha.
- its a religion home to the indian subcontinent that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs
- the four noble truthes- the tuth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the and of suffering.
Buddhist art
- orignated from indian subcontinent
- worked with brik, woo, thatch, and bamvoo
- made stone railings and gateways
according to hindu view there are four goals of life on earth
- hinduism
- costume decorations
- perfumery
- jewelry
- magic ans illisions
- ointments for charm and virility
- manual dexterity
suugery was introduced as a common practice
sushruta cam up with 120 surgical instruments, 300 procedures and 8 surgery
2 categorys of literature- sutri and smriti
sruti- listened to or herd
Performing arts
- music and dance for entertainment
- always a time for dancing and entertainment
indian trade
- silk
- wines
- weapons
- metal works
- jewelry
- clothes jade
- nuts
- amber
- spices
- lap dog
silk roads
- not actual roads
- name given to any route that led across china to Rome
- 4000 mile trip
- rome had gold, silver and precious gems
- very dangerous and difficult to travel along
silk
- romans were not supprised to hear of another great civilization had hidden over the mountains
- they had been looking for the silk people for a long time.
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