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VERY Important to Know
-King Asoka
-ruled by Buddhist teachings
-gave up fighting to rule peacefully
-sent missionaries to spread Buddhism
-set up hospitals
-created roads-improved travel and trade
Gupta Empire
-Chandra Gupta II
-He brought India into a Golden Age
-Advances in art, mathematics, technology, and literature
-Created numeral and decimal system
-The symbol for zero
-the value of Pi
-the length of a year
-Ayurvedic medicine- good diet and exercise
-Iron Pillar- 23 ft. high, 1,300 lbs.
Hinduism
Hinduism
-the 3rd religion in the world today.
-four out of five people in India practice Hinduism today.
-1 million people in the United States practice Hinduism.
Beliefs:
-the soul never dies but is continually reborn until it becomes enlightened.
-depending on a persons karma, they can be reincarnated in a higher or lower life form.
-to achieve happiness and enlightenment, people must free themselves from earthly desires.
-believe in deities (gods and goddesses) are part of ONE supreme god
Buddhism
Buddhism
Founder: Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
Saw poverty, illness, and death for the first time at the age of 29.
He became a wondering monk to find enlightenment.
Achieve enlightenment by:
the Four Noble Truths and following the Eightfold Path to reach nirvana (the end of suffering).
Eightfold Path:
-right opinions
-right desires
-right speech
-right action
-right jobs
-right effort
-right concentration
-right meditation
Gandhi
