World History I

Chapter 8: Empires and Visionaries in India
600 BCE-600 CE

36: Mon, Jan 19, 2026

Please read the chapter and take the quiz by midnight on Sun, Jan 18, 2026.
Please also post in the forum for the day a short essay in response to this question:

The period from 600 BCE to 600 CE in India is a period of shifting political power, shifting resources, shifting religions movements, and demographic expansion. What resources, both physical and cultural, shape the Mauryan Empire? The Gupta Emipre? the Kush empire? Consider:

• How do changes to the environment act as a resource for the development of the different cultures?
• How do religious ideas act as a resource to shape individual lives as well as cultures and governments?
• How does interaction with other cultures shape the economy, political structures, and art of India in this period?

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