RELG 252- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 61 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Origins of hinduism: 2 ancient cultural complexes, 1. Indus valley civilization 2500bc 1500bc: 2. Tracing continuity between an ancient past and the present, bearing witness to the past hindu greatness: be aware of rhetoric of origins, origin: always the consequence of something which has gone before. Indus valley civilization: sir john marshall 1921, director gen of archaeological survey of. India, discovered the ivc: centered on a river, located in basic of the indus (now in. Baluchistan and indus regions growing out of earlier local cultures. Religion of the indus valley: little known of polity or religion of ivc system of writing but not successful deciphered, what is the language and what group of languages is it related to, 1. Language belonging to dravidian linguistic family: includes southern indian languages e. g. tamil, Kannada, telegu and malayalam presence of these. Early form of indo-european: includes greek, latin, sanskrit, gujurati, urdu, Lecture 1: intro to the academic study of.
