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Ancient India Template

Answer 1

Using the SPRITE categories, the chart relating to Ancient India is completed as follows:

Social:

• The caste system even forbids intermarriages.
• Family leadership: Men were family providers and leaders
• Women remained obedient to first their fathers, husbands, and sons, in that order.
• Moved to agriculture from herding.

What is the Caste System?

The caste system classified the peoples of Ancient India as follows:

• Pujaris = priests
• Kshatriyas = warriors and aristocrats
• Vaishyas = cultivators, artisans, and merchants
• Shudras = landless peasants and serfs
• Dalit or Harijan = the untouchables who performed dirty or unpleasant tasks

Political:

• Magadha kingdom
• Mauryan Empire
• Asoka Empire
• Bureaucratic government
• Invention and spread of the caste system
• Establishment of chiefdoms.

Religious:

• Polytheistic
• Hinduism & the Guptas
• Buddhism & the Mauryans
• The violent Aryans had violent deities
• Indra: Rig Veda or chief deity, a war god
• Priests performed sacrifices, appeasing the gods.

Intellectual:

The intellectual inventions from Ancient India included:

• Zero and number system
• Decimal system
• Value of pi, algebra, trigonometry, and calculus.

Technological:

• Ancient Dentistry
• Ancient flush toilet systems
• Weighing scale
• Plastic surgery
• Pythagorean theorem
• Crucible steel.

Economic

• Flourishing international trade between China, the rest of Asia, and Europe
• Silk trade routes and ports
• Agriculture for food sustenance and raw materials for industries like textile, food processing, and crafts.

Thus, using SPRITE categories, the chart relating to Ancient India is completed as above.

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