MMW 11 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Mahayana, Ushas, Upanishads

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: Matthew Herbst

Document Summary

Subcontinent of india used for this text. Includes pakistan, nepal, india, bangladesh, and sri lanka. Monsoons come from the south to the north. Himalaya mountains covered in forests and get a lot of rain. S of the mountains are the ganges and indus rivers. Seat of the great empires of india. W are the deserts of rajasthan and se pakistan. S of river valleys are the vindhya mountains. Only w coast of s india allows for agriculture. Long coastlines and predictable winds allowed for a lot of trade. Civilization started a little later than elsewhere but they got agriculture around the same time (~7000 bc) Wheat and barley were the early crops. Seat of a sophisticated urban culture ~2500 bc (bronze age) ~300 harappan cities discovered with many more towns and villages (both in. Had writing, but we can"t read it. More than 2x as large as ancient egypt or sumer. Everything was standardized everywhere (even bricks in small villages)