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The Cultural Development Of The Indian Civilization

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Asia,located in the eastern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere, is bordered by the Pacific, Arctic and the Indian oceans. Being one of the largest continents with a population of 3.8 billion people, Asia is divided into three subregions: Central Asia, Eastern Asia and Southern Asia. Those regions are composed of distinctive languages, ideas and beliefs, as well as consisting different climates,cultures, traditions, and political and social structures. Climates vary from warm to cold depending on its geography, whereas the social structure range from rigid to mobile, all impacting the inhabitants a certain way. The cultural development of the indian civilization were way different with China and Arabs. “Whereas Confucianism paid little attention to the gods, spirits and speculation about religious matters, Indian elite culture embraced the divine and all things spiritual with enthusiasm and generated elaborate philosophical visions about the nature of reality”.(Ways of the world,197) Compared to how Confucianism was founded by Confucius in China during the 6th century B.C.E, and how Islam was found by Mohammad the prophet, Hinduism had no founder. Instead it flourished within the Indian civilizations and associated with particular people and territory over many centuries. Despite being the fact the hinduism was not a single tradition, it incorporated a lot of “Indian cultural patterns into a recognizable system” (Ways of the world, 197) ,

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