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10,000 BCE
Creation of the World (Around 4 Billion years ago)
Brahma was the first god in Hinduism. There are 3 gods that do certain things: creation, service, and to wreck the world. Shiva's job is to wreck the world to recreate it and Vishnu is to help the world. -
3300 BCE
The Civilisation of Indus Valley
This was considered the Bronze ae Civilisation in South Asia. This had many advancements in their culture, technology, and knowledge of fashion and way of life. -
1500 BCE
Writing of the Vedas (Between 1500-1000)
It is a group of hymns and other texts written in India between 1500-1000 BCE. In the writings, it has a combination of a bunch of things: prayers, what they believe in, and poems. -
800 BCE
The major Upanishads are written
This is the base texts of Hinduism, in these texts they talk about reincarnation and karma. How if you are good and do good deeds you will get reincarnated better in the caste system. If you have karma and weren't a good person you would be reincarnated lower in the caste system. -
1 BCE
Construction of the Hindu Temples (1st century)
Shiva temple was the first temple that went up because it was depicted on a coin. Temples were built for anyone who was depicted on coins. If you were a person with a temple that meant you have social, economical, and policial power. -
320
The Gupta Empire is founded
When they founded this Empire its located across northern, central and southern parts of India. This was the golden age of India, when arts, science, and religion became a big part of the expansion of the Gupta Empire. -
500
The Gupta Empire falls
As the policial systems fell so did the Gupta Empire because of both internal and external problems. Internal problems were the emperors lost power and that made the leadership weak. External problems were princes wanted independence and did not want to pay taxes to Gupta state. -
600
Classic Era (500-600CE)
This is a period when people were learning more about Hinduism and what it had to offer. Throughout this period when Hinduism moved from Veda to deities and rituals -
1200
The Early Muslim conquests (1200-1500)
Muslims spread through the Middle East and that made Muslim states grow. This conquest was started by religion but religion wasn't all it had to do with politics too. This forced Islamic and Arab communities to grow their religion and political name. -
The Hindu Renaissance begins
Hindu religion was getting impacted by the European's that were coming over, scholars were looking into the texts more carefully. -
Brahmo Samaj (1828-present day)
This is a theistic movement with Hinduism started in Kolkata started in 1828 but is still going on to this day. It disposes of the Hindu traditions and rituals but puts in Christian traditions in their prayer. -
Neo-Vedanta (1850-present day)
Neo-Vedanta is a modern day school with a liberal piece towards Vedas. It favors division and non-division and doesn't like "universal illusionism." Universal illusionism defines as people have imagined beliefs about free will. -
Arya Samaj (1875-present day)
Arya Samaj is a reform movement in Hinduism, Dayananda Sarasvati started it and wanted to renew the Vedas. With renewing the Vedas he wanted to renew the Hindu scriptures, and traditions. -
The Vedanta Society is formed
In India, Vivekananda started the Ramakrishna Mission. The purpose of the mission was to boost the Hindu tradition what they should be doing regarding education and service. -
Partition of India
India won independence from the British and then split into 2 new states. States that will rule themselves new countries were India and Pakistan and now Eat Pakistan has become Bangladesh.
