Worth 30 pts Ancient India Template
Complete the chart. Refer to the lessons in Module Six to describe the S. P.R. I.T. E. categories as they relate to Ancient India. Some of the chart has been completed for you.

Hinduism & the Guptas Buddhism & the Mauryans
Social They had used Caste system, with untouchables to do the jobs that no one wanted. Intermarriage between caste levels was not allowed.
Political In 321 BCE, Chandragupta Maurya took over the former Magadha kingdom. It became the center of the Mauryan Empire. His government was a highly organized bureaucracy. He worked his way westward to the Indus Valley. The third emperor, Asoka, brought all of India, except the far south, into the empire. He used military strategy to rule.
Religion There were temples and the worship of many gods. Animal sacrifices and complex rituals made some people feel disconnected from Hinduism. Religious beliefs were spread through trade.
Intellectual Buddha's teachings and the Four Noble Truths were passed down through oral tradition. Buddhists meditate to find their own truths. Asoka placed stone pillars providing moral guidance all over India (Edicts of Asoka.)
Technology Gupta metal workers built a huge wrought-iron pillar. Indian doctors practiced Ayurvedic medicine. They could set bones and perform simple surgeries. They also began vaccinating people against smallpox.
Economy Roads and harbors were built to help trade grow. Royal officials collected taxes.
Choose four of the questions to answer. Use the lesson and chart, to answer each question in three or more sentences in your own words.

How did Hindu animal sacrifices impact Buddhist practices?
How was Prince Siddhartha's life different after his four pilgrimages?
Compare and contrast Moksha and Nirvana.
Describe Asoka's rule before and after he converted to Buddhism.
As newcomers to India, the Aryans exchanged culture with the people living there. Describe what the Aryans gave to Indian society and what they learned from the people living there.
If you had to choose, would you choose to live in the Mauryan or Gupta Empire?
Let's imagine the United States was debating to bring a caste system to the country, would you protest or support the effort? Why or why not?

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from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.

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