HIST 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Muziris, Shravasti, Hindu Kush
7 Feb 2018
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Start reading from the sub heading urbanization of the ganges valley . Before that, the lectures have covered relevant details. Please know the names of at least 5 kingdoms or mahajanpadas. Five of the six major cities in the central gangetic plains were capitals of mahajanapadas: rajagriha (magadha), varanasi (kasi), kausambi (vatsa), sravasti (koshala) and champa (anga). Only the sixth city, saketa, was not an independent capital but was located in koshala. You have to know the name of the kingdom that became most powerful. Do you know the names of the two scripts that were developed? since the two scripts brahmi and karoshthi were already fully developed, scholars believe that they may have originated in the fifth century bc. The persians held sway in the northwest of the indian subcontinent at that time and karoshthi, which was written from right to left, was based on the aramaic script which was the official script of the.
