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INDIAN CIVILIZATION
EARLIEST, SEE MAP
Harappan Civilization
The Indus Valley Civilization spread
and flourished in the northwestern
part of the Indian subcontinent from
c. 3300 to 1300 BCE in present-day
Pakistan and northwest India
MAURYAN EMPIRE, INDIA
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Most of the subcontinent was conquered by the Maurya
Empire, 400-300 BCE
MAURYAN EMPIRE, INDIA
 321 to 185 BC.
MAURYAN EMPIRE, INDIA
 Chandragupta Maurya , FOUNDER
 First unifier of India
 RISE OF OTHER RELIGIONS
 HINDUISM
 JAINISM
 BUDDHISM
 LIST RELIGIONS DISCUSSED.
 JAINISM
 Indian religion that prescribes a path
of non-violence towards all living
beings. Its philosophy and practice
emphasize the necessity of self-effort
to move the soul toward divine
consciousness and liberation.
JAINISM
GOLDEN AGE OF INDIA
 400-600 EC, AD
 Indians made in the fields of science,
technology, engineering, art, dialectic,
literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy,
religion and philosophy during the Gupta
Empire. The decimal numeral system,
including the concept of zero, was invented
in India during this period.
 GUPTA EMPIRE, 320 CE–600s CE
GUPTA EMPIRE
GUPTA EMPIRE
 Founded by Maharaja Sri Gupta,
 dynasty was the model of a classical
civilization
 HINDUISM THRIVED, EXPANDED
ASHOKA
 Ashoka the Great
 Indian emperor of the Maurya
Dynasty
 ruled almost all of the Indian
subcontinent from ca. 269 BC to 232
BC
 One of India's greatest emperors
ASHOKA
 CONVERTED TO BUDDHISM
 PROPAGATION OF BUDDHISM
ACROSS ASIA
KALINGA WAR
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As the legend goes, one day after the war was over, Ashoka
ventured out to roam the city and all he could see were
burnt houses and scattered corpses. This sight made him
sick and he cried the famous monologue:
What have I done? If this is a victory, what's a defeat then?
Is this a victory or a defeat? Is this justice or injustice? Is it
gallantry or a rout? Is it valor to kill innocent children and
women? Do I do it to widen the empire and for prosperity
or to destroy the other's kingdom and splendor? One has
lost her husband, someone else a father, someone a child,
someone an unborn infant.... What's this debris of the
corpses? Are these marks of victory or defeat? Are these
vultures, crows, eagles the messengers of death or evil?
The brutality of the conquest led him to adopt Buddhism,
and he used his position to propagate