1. CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL SOUTH ASIA

5. CHANDRAGUPTA
First empire
Expansion

6. GOVT.
Districts
Secret police
++ military

7. ASHOKA
Buddhism
+++
Toleration

8. Factions

9. GUPTA ( )
Reunite
Renaissance

10. ART/LITERATURE
Love life
Golden Age
Poetry, adventures
Kama Sutra

11. 1-9, “zero”
Influences?
Math

12. MEDICINE
Hospitals – free
Animals

14. Small states

15. Islam
Merchants
Conquest

17. S. INDIA
States
Growth

18. States
Temple
Center

20. Trade
Global
Cosmopolitan

21. ISLAM
Gradual ++
1500: 25%
Sufis
Personal
Untouchables?

22. Two faiths
Sikh: 1500
Hinduism ++

23. Post 1500
Fragmentation
Rajputs