HIST 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rigveda, Shudra, Iron Age
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Explain his sindhu/indu theory: to what heavenly body and to what drink does the author connect the name, a. Why was it important in mesopotamian myth: a. List the 4 yugas & their corresponding metals. He prefers to use the term hinduism, which means the same thing as. The city was harappa and the river was the ghaggar-hakra river: the contrasting views in india is because of the theory of where the term. Hindu came from: a. dilmun was a semitic civilization in eastern arabia. Dilmun was an important trading center, and it controlled the persian gulf trading routes: the sumerians described dilmun as a paradise garden in the epic of. The sumerians tale of the garden paradise of dilmun may have been an inspiration of the garden of eden story: brahmin: priests and religious officials. Not twice-born non-aryan: a. satya yuga: the golden age.
