Buddhism and India's Golden Age

Description

1World History: Ancient CivilizationsChapter 7: Ancient India Lesson 3 Buddhism and India's Golden Age MAIN IDEAS Belief System A teacher called the Buddha developed a new religion that focused on helping people to escape suffering. Government The Maurya rulers united northern India into the fi rst great Indian empire. Culture About 500 years after Asoka's death, a new ruler united northern India and began a golden age of culture. The Rise of Buddhism ESSENTIAL QUESTION What are the main teachings of the religion of Bud- dhism? Jainism • Jainism also began in India; religion teaches ahimsa—“nonviolence” - Jains believe all living things have souls and should

• dharma - dharma
• northeastern magadha kingdom
• medical system
• asoka
• maurya rulers
• century b.c. hindu prince
• spread of hinduism
• buddhism
• hindu

Sujets

• Empire
• In?ija
• Dharma
• Buddhism
• Hinduism
• Magadha
• Maurya
• System

Informations

• Publié par: urdio
• Nombre de lectures: 46
• Langue: English

Extrait

List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements

iNTROduCTION Dimitris Tziovas

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Part I: SoCIety anD PoLItICS15  thEemigRé expERiENcE: CàsE STUdiEs15 1 tàlESfROm ThE DàRK sIdE: tRàNSNàTIONàl MIgRàTION, ThE UNdERwORld àNd ThE ‘oThER’ GREEKS Of ThE DIàSPORà17  ThomasW. Gallant 2 sIlENTMINORITy: thE GREEK cOmmuNITy Of eIghTEENTh-cENTuRy LONdON 31  JonathanHarris 3 GREEKMERChàNTS IN vICTORIàN eNglàNd45  MariaChristina Chatziioannou 4 rEPàTRIàTION, MIgRàTION OR rEàdjuSTmENT: egyPTIàN GREEK DIlEmmàS Of ThE 1950S  61  AnthonyGorman 5 sEàRChINgfOR à MOThERlàNd: slàV-MàCEdONIàN pOlITICàl rEfugEES IN ThE pEOPlE’S rEPublIC Of MàCEdONIà (1944–2003)73  IakovosD. Michailidis 6 nOplàCE IS (lIKE) HOmE: MObIlITIES, MEmORIES àNd METàmORPhOSES Of GREEK MIgRàNTS IN DENmàRK83  AnastasiaChristou

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Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700

 nàTiONàlCENTRE àNd tRàNsNàTiONàl PERiphERY97 7 aGREECE fOR GREEKS by DESCENT? nINETEENTh-cENTuRy pOlICy ON iNTEgRàTINg ThE GREEK DIàSPORà99  ElpidaVogli 8 Definingthe Changing Boundaries of Greek Nationality111  DimitrisChristopoulos 9 ‘DETERRITORIàlISINg’ThE nàTION: ThE GREEK sTàTE àNd ‘eCumENICàl HEllENISm’ 125  LinaVenturas 10 thELImITS Of pOlITICàl tRàNSNàTIONàlISm: thE GREEK-amERICàN LObby 1970S–1990S141  AlexanderKitroeff Part II: LIterature anD CuLture155 11 iNdIgENOuSFOREIgNERS: thE GREEK DIàSPORà àNd tRàVEl WRITINg (1880–1930) 157  DimitrisTziovas

12 BETwEENLàNguàgE, LàNd àNd emPIRE: HumàNIST àNd oRIENTàlIST pERSPECTIVES ON egyPTIàN-GREEK idENTITy177  AlexanderKazamias

13 thEpOETICS Of tRàNSIT: exIlE, DIàSPORà àNd rEPàTRIàTION IN sTRàTIS tSIRKàS’S nOVElS193  EleniPapargyriou

14 ‘BEIT eVER SO HumblE’: nOSTàlgIà fOR HOmE àNd ThE pROblEm Of rETuRN IN pOST-WàR GREEK nOVElS205  GerasimusKatsan

15 thEpOlITICS Of MEmORy IN ThE FICTION Of GREEK pOlITICàl exIlES IN eàSTERN euROPE215  VenetiaApostolidou

16 thErETuRN Of nIKITàS ràNdOS: sàTIRE, MEmORy àNd oThERNESS IN ThE pOST-WàR pOETRy Of nICOlàS càlàS229  LenaHoff

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17 thEToposOf HOmE IN nEw GREEK-amERICàN WRITINg  MarthaKlironomos

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18 rEPàTRIàTIONON sCREEN: nàTIONàl culTuRE àNd ThE immIgRàNT oThER SINCE ThE 1990S255  DimitrisPapanikolaou

19 thEDIàSPORà sINgS BàCK: rEbETIKà DOwN UNdER  StathisGauntlett Index

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