INDIA: PERSIAN CHART

RELIGION

• Hinduism: Vedas, Karma, Dharma, Moskha, Castes, Polytheism, and Veincarnatiom
• Buddhism: Ego is bad, strive to be modest, they reject Brahmin, reincarnation, be like Buddha, find Nirvana, and peace

ECONOMIC

• Traded, taxes, currency, silk goods, textiles, and spices
• Enforced heavy taxes on common people and traded extensively with South East Asia

INTELLECTAL

• Used Arabic number system
• Wrote poems
• Used philosophy
• Followed religion for intelligence
• Also had names and coins

POLITICAL

• Centralized government
• Gupta empire came into power in 320 C.E.
• Didn't have a bureaucracy, but relied on local rulers.

SOCIAL

• Birth determined social status and little mobility
• Caste system; each caste was associated with a particular part of the body of the Bod Purusha
• 1) Sundra (feet): priest & teachers
• 2) Vaisya (thighs): warriors & rulers
• 3) Kshatriya (shoulders): farmers & merchants
• 4) Brahmin (head): labors
• 5) Untouchables: polluted labor

ARTISTIC

• Storylines from poems and military adventure
• Indian art appreciated nature, payed homage to religion values, but also life.