ASIA 100 Chapter Notes -Brickwork, Sri Lanka, Granary
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A patterned set of beliefs, values, rules of behavior that are distinctive. Social system that is complex, with a certain degree of social ranking, and privileged and unprivileged classes. All civilizations have fuzzy boundaries, are unevenly spread and lumpy, and continually mingle with and draw on other civilizations. Indians are not a race, and they are neither homogeneous nor distinctive. One other feature tracks the linguistic boundaries, approximately but not exactly: kinship and the rules of marriage. The political map today is divided into seven nation- states occupying the territory of india in the civilizational sense: India"s ancient past was brought into relation to the pasts of other ancient societies. The contents of ancient sanskrit literature were read in a new way, making a distinction between what was regarded as myth and what was regarded as history. Homeland of two world religions: buddhism, which spread east, and. Hinduism, which spread to parts of southeast asia.
