Jessica Darcy WH1, period 2 December 5th How the Gupta Empire rose and what motivated it?
“ A rapid expansion of the Gupta Empire and… it began a period of overall prosperity and growth “(“Gupta”). The Gupta Empire was located in Central India and parts of Northern India. The rise began in 320 and lasted until 550 BCE. Their rise was motivated by their achievements in the arts and economy. They also had notable cultural unity and ideology. Finally they benefited from their environment to trade. The Gupta empire left a lasting legacy with their arts and achievements that we use everyday. For instance they
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Buddhism was a huge part of their empire alongside with Hinduism. Knowing that Buddhism and Hinduism was supporting their empire, helped build cultural unity. Buddhism is one of these factors by making the Gupta empire so successful. Another approach of how they had cultural unity and ideology was by establishing Dharma and how they were all happy, “ The people are numerous and happy… the heads of Vaisya[merchant] families in the kingdoms of India established in the cities houses for dispensing medicines and charities”( ). Everyone who was observed were found happy, and the merchant families helped charities and their community. The people from Gupta were kind, happy, and as communities had cultural unity and ideology. The final reason the Gupta empire possessed a fortunate rise was caused by the environment and how they were able to trade with it.
The environment assisted the Guptas rise and the economy. The environment also helped the Gupta’s rise because it helped their economy, trade and helped the population, “ Brought control of Magadha, the fertile and densely populated heartland of the former Mauryan Empire” (Collinson). The fertile land encouraged the population by creating a good area to farm. The densely populated land also supported the rise by creating cities and an empire. The Gupta Empire used their environment to their advantage so they could rise and grow in their economy and population. The environment is another example of how it supported
Beginning in the 5th century, Buddhism became a very popular form of religion throughout Asia. Because this was such a diverse and widely followed religion, it introduced many different architectural and innovational developments that had influence from Buddhism, but depending on the region, the styles changed. Also, High officials, like Ashoka, whose’ primary influence came from Buddhism, created practices for his people to follow and live by to bring peace to his kingdom. As this religion was gaining popularity throughout Asia, the transformation that it took was very diverse and long term.
| * India kept guilds throughout the entire period * always encouraged trade and economic growth * was economically the other half of agriculture
8. Indian influence registered in Southeast Asia by causing political change. Its rulers became more ambitious due to the wealth accrued and tried to construct larger more centrally governed cities and states. Local people were attracted to foreign religious ideas like Confucianism or Buddhism.The inland states of Southeast Asia were more reliant on domestically preduced rice particiaped in international trade and many of them flourished. Trade also spread Indian culture across Southeast Asia. Indian alphabets were used to write numbers and Indian artistic forms provided models for Southeastern sculptures. Southeast Asia also adopted the Indian philosophy of rulers being “good-kings” and having good morals. Rulers
The early civilizations of China and India emerged prior to 600 CE in what is known today as the continent of Asia. With the Himalayan mountains in between them, these civilizations developed in isolation from one another, and yet still managed to produce kingdoms with continuous growing populations to this day. Individual growth and development amongst the people stimulated technological inventions, increased the chances of survival and lead to: greater agricultural production, strong armies, and expansion. Eventually, these commodities and other luxury items produced will be traded, spurring the economic growth of both civilizations. Overall, these early stages of development not only furthered contact amongst these two great empires allowing for cultural diffusion, but also set the foundation for future generations to follow. Although China and India’s growing empires took place in different parts of the world, the structure of their economies developed similarly, beginning with an agricultural infrastructure and progressing towards trade within and beyond the kingdoms, while also acquiring distinctive cultural differences overtime such as a social hierarchy defined by certain beliefs. These characteristics will define the beginning and the advancement of early economic systems used during the Foundations Era and Classical Age, and provides insight on the essentials that influenced the two economic
2. Contrast – In China, the Han rulers and people with the most power were the educated bureaucrats. India’s rulers were part of the ruling family who were leaders of the empire.
Like Han China, Classical India used their social structure system as a method of political
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Just as Buddhism unified Japan during arduous times, it also helped unify India under Ashoka’s command. Ashoka fought great battles and imposed his rule on people southward along the eastern coast of India. The sufferings created by the war disturbed Ashoka and he found relief in the religion known as Buddhism. He adopted Buddhism to bring equality to all and found great comfort knowing the religion was so accepting.
What if you could live in a golden empire? That was exactly what the Gupta Empire was for India, their “Golden Age.” That was because of their daily life, Chandra Gupta II, and achievements in academics.
In what ways was the Gupta dynasty associated with Hinduism? Why were the southern kingdoms more stable after the collapse of the Gupta, c. 600 CE than they had been before?
From around 500 to 300 B.C.E, in Ancient Greece, the area had many contributions to modern Western civilization. Ancient Greece influenced Western civilization politically and socially. Ancient Greece influenced Western civilization with the spread of democracy and impacted Western civilization socially with its style of architecture using columns and the ancient Olympics.
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This period was one of major change in Indian life and culture. While the East
The history of the nation of India is a long and interesting one but most westernizes lack any true understanding of it. Like any long standing culture there have been good and bad periods in their history but one period has been identified as the "Golden Age of India (Dehejia, 1993)." This period, which lasted over a hundred years (322 BCE 185 BCE), began when an exiled general by the name of Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the reigning king Dhana Nanda. Once Chandragupta Maurya had established his new government in the Eastern area of India he began expanding his power westward across Central and Western India and, in the process, the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism also began to spread throughout India (Avari, 2007).