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India -- pt. 1: Creating Civilization in South Asia

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The History of Sanscrit and Giannism

There was a certain degree of cultural evolution and standardization, especially around 500 b c. The sanscrit language had changed the years as people adopted agricultural and urban life. This new form of sonscrit was then intentionally standardized and codified by scholars into what we now call classical sonscrit. And classical sonscrit was a shared language of literature and diplomacy. There also was the emergence of new philosophies, different sorts of mystical or metaphysical philosophies that emphasized the vedas and the worship of the gods.

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