HIST 135 Study Guide - Final Guide: Maurya Empire, Kama Sutra, Harappa
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Vedic religion --> asceticism/shramana movement/ buddhism/jainism/ajivikaism -> vedic religion after brahmanical reformulation -> shaivas/vaishnavism -> modern hinduism. How people changed over time goes hand and hand with religion (the struggle to find better ways to achieve freedom from rebirth) By the end of the course, i hope that you will not only have learned about the history of ancient and medieval. India, but also developed the analytical skills you will need to present your ideas effectively and coherently. More specifically, i hope that by the end of the course you will. Understand that states, peoples, and even religions change over time and that historical factors, affect people"s lives. Lower class rode horses, the others rode chariots. Understand how historians write history, that historical works are written in specific contexts and that they must be read with those contexts in mind. It means the whole defining people by how different they (indians) are from them (western europeans)
