Mauryan India – history of India
These punch-marked silver coins might be from the time of Chandragupta I, in Mauryan India. Chandragupta I Alexander went back to Babylon in 324 BC. Then a man named Chandragupta overthrew [...]
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Indians and Greeks project
Greek style Buddha from about 100 AD When Alexander the Great brought his army to India, Greek people learned a lot of new things from the people they met in India. We don't know [...]
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Vedic expansion – history of India
Ganges river - wider and slower than the Indus Vedic people become more Indian After the Vedic people moved into the Ganges valley about 800 BC, they were further from West Asia and Central Asia and [...]
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Alexander the Great in India
Alexander the Great Did Alexander the Great really conquer India? In 326 BC, Alexander the Great conquered the Persian part of northern India. Alexander was a Macedonian king. So he was an Indo-European, like the Persians. [...]
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Indian art – Ancient and medieval
Indian art: Clay figurines from Mehrgahr, from the Stone Age The earliest art Major themes of Indian art seem to begin emerging as early as the Stone Age. The earliest [...]
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Mauryan architecture – India
Sanchi stupa, 250 BC - Mauryan architecture New Buddhist buildings When people in India began to follow the Buddhist religion, they needed new kinds of buildings that reflected Buddhist ideas. The [...]
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Who is Plato? Allegory of the Cave
Who is Plato? Socrates probably taught Plato in this part of Athens, near the Athenian Agora (but the temple wasn't there yet) Plato's rich family The Greek philosopher Plato was [...]
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06, 2017
History of Bananas – Southeast Asia
A bunch of bananas: History of bananas Where do bananas come from? Wild ancestors of banana trees grew in southeast Asia. Like chickens, bananas were first domesticated in southeast Asia. [...]
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What is usury? Economic history
Code of Hammurabi (1700s BC) Usury (YOU-sure-ee) is when you lend money to someone else and charge a percentage as interest for that money. For instance if you lend me [...]
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How to make a Chinese Buddha Statue – China projects
A Buddha statue made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon Many people in China after about 500 AD prayed to Buddha as a god. Buddhists often made gold statues [...]
