South and Central Asia Timeline

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• Art with representations of nature

• Cultural Structure

•Impacts of humans on environment

•Climate

• Predominant Technologies

•Animal Domestication Milestones

South and Central Asia Timeline

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PREHISTORIC

2,000 BCE-500 CE

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

RENAISSANCE

-Society develops, adapts writing, religion and trade

-Rise of the Hindu kingdom in South India

-Western language, culture, government structure, technology is coerced to India with the dominance of the British.

-Evidence of society of proto- humans evidenced by tools in North India, some of South Asia's oldest civilizations

- Plastic Surgery created

- Mathematical signs, including sine, cosine, and tangent, were created and recognized by mathematicians.

North-Central Indian Cave

- Rulers invented as a way to measure things, more formal measurement terms eventually followed.

Depiction of Krishna with a flute

-In general, air quality has deteriorated to unacceptable levels in many Asian cities and disposal of wastes has become a major problem

-Urban waste management (or lack of it) is a serious problem throughout India.

- Globes were created, which mapped out the world's geography in a newfound way.

-Because Central Asia is not buffered by a large body of water, temperature fluctuations are severe, outside the sunny, hot summer months. In most areas the climate is dry and continental, with hot summers and cool to cold winters, with occasional snowfall. Outside high-elevation areas, the climate is mostly semi-arid to arid.

Singh of Salata on horseback, circa 1800's

Ikshvaku dynasty- depicting Siddhartha on horseback

-Cotton Gin was created, along with Ink, which could eventually be used in order to write. Both of these products had relationships with nature in some way.

ROMANTIC ERA

MIDDLE AGES

3,000-10,000 BCE

20TH CENTURY

RENAISSANCE

PREHISTORIC

2,000 BCE-500 CE

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

-1947: Partition of British India freed India from British rule and split the country into modern India and Pakistan

-Battle of Plassey loss gives East India Company power over Bengal and expands the British power over South India

-This time has some of India's best art and classical improvement, and the increase in spiritual and philosophical systems (Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism)

20th century Vietnamese birds

-The crestograph was created, which was a device that measured the growth of different types of plants. Here, we see a shift as scientists try to uncover real information about nature.

Harappen Seal, 4,500 BCE

-Nomadic tribes settled along the coastline, formed agrarian societies and used shells as currency

-The annual mean temperature in India has increased by 1.2 degrees Celsius since the beginning of the 20th century

- Chicken domesticated (all within the Indus Valley)

15th Century Vietnamese Dish

"Shakuntala looking back to [see] Dushyanta"

- Dentistry invented, start of a profession

20TH CENTURY

[top] Prince hunting boars

[bottom] Gods dancing for Shiva and Parvati

- Toilets with flush systems were developed/integrated

MIDDLE AGES

ROMANTIC ERA

3,000-10,000 BCE