SAST 203 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Yoga, Vedas, Sanskrit
12 Oct 2018
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Pangea breaks up forming gondwana super continent 510-200 million years ago. Included most of the lands in modern norther hemisphere. Asia originally didn"t include sub continent of india, it is still trying to fit properly along asia"s border. Kathmandu valley was lifted by a metre because of an earthquake when subcontinent india still trying to fit with asia. Called caucasians because in near east central asia there is a group of mountains called caucasus, people here formed big population and then spread out. Technical term for east asia people (mongolian, chinese, japanese) Most people in the sub-continent are of mixed racial group. North indians generally see that their features are closer to afghanistan and mid-easter people who are caucasian. Dark skinned, but genetically different from african blacks. Divided into large groups in copper age. Stock keeps moving to find grass, so they also moved around, population spread this way. Travel in groups and travel together to certain areas.
