Marked The Punjab

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Vedic India

The Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, were composed in Sanskrit in northern India and passed on by memory, word for word, for many centuries before they were written down.

Place
The Punjab · The Ganges plain · KurukshetraAsia
Laid out as
A beliefA faith or a way of thinking, from its central idea outwards to its practice and its spread.
Lessons
5 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IThe Rigveda
  2. IIRemembered, not written
  3. IIIFire and sacrifice
  4. IVVarna and society
  5. VThe Upanishads

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • The rishis
  • Yajnavalkya
  • Gargi Vachaknavi

Objects

  • Manuscripts of the Rigveda

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1500 BC to 500 BC. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?