Tell me about ancient Indian civilizations
I hardly ever heard about them in class
It seems they were in a prime location
Between the Middle East and China yet it seems they never did much
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>>1322551
>Indian Civilizations developed sewer systems earlier than Western Ones
>>1322507
>It seems they were in a prime location
Not really. That was Central Asia. India was more a difficult branching path off that road
Except provide massive contrubutions to math, linguistics, literature, and science
>>1322720
>>1322720
Nope
>The first sanitation systems were built in the prehistoric Middle East, in the south-east of the modern country of Iran near Zabol. An inverted siphon system, along with glass covered clay pipes, was used for the first time in the palaces of Crete, Greece. It is still in working condition, after about 3000 years.
>>1322972
Use the unedited one, friend.
>>1322972
DESIgnated
>>1322720
>BAWWW MUH TRIGGERS
If you're so offended. When are you going to redevelop your sewage system? When are you going to overthrow your shitty corrupt government and provide adequate sanitation for your poorest?
That would prove "le evil racist bigoted shitlords" wrong.
>>1323001
because Muslims are autistic about hygiene
>have to perform ritual ablution five times a day
>have to take a shower every day
>have to take a shower every time you ejaculate, have sex, or even touch another woman
>have to shave and clean armpits and pubes every other week because muh Hadith
>have to wash genitals with water every time you take a piss
>have to clean anus with bidet every time you take a shit
wew
>>1323111
That's because Islam spread primarily to parts of the world where if you don't do all these things you will fester and die or people will kill you for stinking too much. Same reason why Brazilians have that obsession with showering multiple times per day.
>>1323167
Muslims in colder regions (central Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, etc) still do all that hygiene stuff though.
>>1323226
That's because these rituals were developed and embedded into Islam prior to it reaching them. Same reason why Jews and Muslims still have circumcisions and don't eat pork even though there is no practical reason for it anymore. Started off as necessity, then became custom.
This board is pure shit.
>>1324224
It's not the board's fault, it's the posters that suck.
For real this board unfortunately has everything to have a terrible community
>international discussions over periods of time leading to both /int/ and /pol/ tier shitposting
>terrible memes forced by kids
>pseudo intellectuals come here leading to /lit/ or /sci/ tier shitposting
>the fucking horrendous memes
>a serious lack or real knowledge of history by most posters that leads to them posting bullshit
>>1323167
Not really, those things were part of Islam from the very start. I think Muhammad just had OCD. Dry burning deserts aren't the most disease infested places.
Fucking hell it sure is summer around here...
>>1322942
This tbhf
This is just a persisting idea because there is little focus on ancient Indian civilizations and their contributions in much of western education. In a lot of the west the education is just "There were the Sumerians and Egyptians and then the Greeks/Romans and then the dark ages and oh yeah at some point in all that there was China and India too"
>>1322984
Does your link specify when the middle-east ones were built? Because Mohenjo-Daro (in the Indian sub-continent) was built in the 25th century BC and it had running water and a sewer/waste-disposal system and so its older then the Crete ones by far.
>>1322507
Well
There's the Indus Valley civilization.. But nobody knows about them at all.
>>1322507
Besides the Indus valley civilization and the Vedic age, India experienced a so-called "golden age" between 500 BC and 700 AD. In the beginning of the golden age, India was divided into several smaller states, with some of them being republics (Mahajanapada). Later on Empires such as the Mauryan and Gupta Empires managed to consolidate power and rule most of the Indian subcontinent. Towards of the end of the golden era, after the fall of the Gupta Empire (which had been weakened by hunnic invasions), India was divided into multiple independent states once again. India's golden age would eventually end after the introduction of Islam in the 8th century.
During the golden age India experienced an influx of scientific ideas from Greece, China and the middle east, which would eventually be used by Indian scientists (Aryabhatta, Sushruta) to discover new mathematical and scientific concepts (trigonometry, plastic surgery). Furthermore it was during the golden age that modern Hinduism was formed, as ideas about non-violence (ahimsa) and dharma spread and gained widespread acceptance among the local population. At the same time India also managed to create trade routes with the western world (Greece, Rome) and the eastern world (China, Indonesia), which would eventually be weakened after the fall of the Gupta and Western Roman Empires.
>>1322507
Lets take a look
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_discoveries
>>1322507
This board is being massively retarded and uneducted recently.
Oh, its summer
>>1322551
You had /int /g /pol /b and many more places you could've posted this and be appreciated for posting it, why did you choose the board that is about history? Are you implying that any ancient civilization didn't?
Why is /his indistinguishable from /pol or /int?
>>1327976
>Greece, China and the middle east
Werent china and middle east the ones who had imported indian knowledge?
Also its the first time I heard they had an influx of scientific ideas form greece.
Would like a source on that, Im interested in what knowledge they gained and furthered from greeks
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ALL THIS POO IN THE LOO SHITPOSTING WHAT IS THIS /pol/
CAN WE HAVE A NICE THREAD ABOUT INDIAN HISTORY
>>1328298
Calm down with the dumb frogposting, vijay
This is not any better than /pol/posting
I thought /his/ knew better.
Google Chola and Chera.
Imo, Indus valley civilization as we know today was a lesser counterpart to the yet to excavate civilizations of India.
If you consider 300B.C. ancient, then you're in for a surprise if you use Google.
How do you think south east Asia got its culture?
>>1328250
>Seamless celestial globe: Considered one of the most remarkable feats in metallurgy, it was invented in Kashmir by Ali Kashmiri ibn Luqman in between 1589 and 1590 CE, and twenty other such globes were later produced in Lahore and Kashmir during the Mughal Empire.[30][31] Before they were rediscovered in the 1980s, it was believed by modern metallurgists to be technically impossible to produce metal globes without any seams, even with modern technology.[31] These Mughal metallurgists pioneered the method of lost-wax casting in order to produce these globes.[31]
Jesus
>>1327976
>India's golden age would eventually end after the introduction of Islam in the 8th century.
kekked way too hard.
>>1322507
Simple answer: the area we know as India is BIG. And for a long time it has been relatively highly populated compared to other regions of the world.
So unifying the entire peninsula as a single kingdom was a pretty monumental task in it of itself.
And while they dint politically or militarily expand much outside the region, think of this:
Alexander the Great was unable to conquer India (although his soldiers also were really fucking tired of fighting)
the Persians couldn't conquer India
The Mongolians ignored / couldn't conquer India.
My understanding of ancient Indian Civ is pretty basic but to my knowledge they were pretty successful, just not as expansive as other groups. For most of history they had massive empires to their West (Persians / Macedonians / Abbasids / ect.) The Himalayas to the north, and the Chinese(?) to their east. so It was probably hard to expand out of the area.
>>1322551
Unfunny meme you faggot. Get out of /his/ you cancer of society and kill yourself.
>>1330332
>Alexander the Great was unable to conquer India
tbf he died early.
>>1323111
>have to wash genitals with water every time you take a piss
The invention of modern toilet bidets must have been the best thing ever
>>1322987
What the hell is the matter with Portugal?
