India



=//20 thousand years ago// = =India's History has a very long history, India's history is old as the history of man kind (twenty to twenty five years old, about). The picture on the center is a cave drawing of a hunter hunting a deer.This shows that India was a forest 20 thousand years ago.This also tells that the first people who ever stepped on India were cavemen. =

=2500-1550 BC = =The first civilization were the Harrappa and Mohenjodaro. Mohenjodaro, the cities are about five thousand years old and was lost around 1700 B.C, and no one still knows how this city was lost. The rivers were essential and beneficial to Mohenjodaro, and scientists think that this city was abandoned resulted to the change of course of the river, which had supported the city. It was rediscovered around the 1920s.=

A drainage system at Mohenjodaro

=1000 B.C-200B.C= =This part of the year is basically when Hinduism and Buddhism stepped into India. No one knows how exactly Hinduism happened, but was some how started in a philosophy, the Vedas, Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda, and Athrvaveda. These were basically Hindu philosophies and religion. This religion says that there is a creator who created this universe. However, there over millions of gods that the Hindus believed (so this religion is polytheistic). They also believe reincarnation. If you made the gods happy satisfied what you have done in your life they would reincarnate (rebirth) you into a higher position, if you don't you will go to a lower position when you are born again. If the gods are satisfied enough what you had done during your life, they will let you stay where the gods live (somewhere like heaven). So the Hindus' objective is to get to heaven by doing human effort.= = =



=The pattern of the reincarnation system.=

=Buddhism had started from a prince named Siddhartha Gautama. Then one day (when his age was 29) he went out his palace after he saw a person ill and a died person. He wanted to search the way of enlightenment. The way where there is less suffering. After all of his time of meditating he finally found the way enlightenment. Then he right away started to teach people this religion. Buddhists are ordered to be humble, respect each other (and all living things), and not be self-fish. They turn away to any money or riches too. There biggest and final goal is to reach enlightenment. =

= = =Alexander conquered some parts of India in 326 B.C., Alexander wanted to conquer more areas of India but the high Himalayas had stopped his soldiers conquering India. Alexander still wanted to go through the Himalayas, however his soldiers refused to go any more further, because they wanted to go home. So Alexander had to go back with frustration, and the next day (on after that day), Alexander had died and know one exactly knew how he died. And the countries what Alexander conquered were all divided.=



=Alexander's conquest=

=Marco Polo has visited to India at 1288, before he visited China.=

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