Ancient and Medieaval History

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Antiquity and continuity of Indian history (From Swayambhuva Manu to Gupta Dynasty). 3. History of the medieval age. 4. History of social relations in India. 5. Medieval society: the three orders. 6. Ancient Western Asia and the civilization of Mesopotamia. 7. Love marriage romance and women in medieval and Celtic culture. 8. The ancient Greeks: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. 9. John of Salibury, the Policraticus and political thought. 10. Medieval religious movements: Bhakti and Sufism. 11. Spiritualism modern science and ancient history. 12. Ancient history: the Sumerians father of modern civilization. 13. Antiquity and the medieval and early modern period. 14. Technology in the middle ages. 15. Sufi currents and civilization in the Islamic courts. 16. Cultural developments in medieval India. Bibliography. Index.

From the big bang, the primeval swamp to the Indus Valley Civilization. There is a tendency to sometimes include the Indus Valley Civilization in prehistory, since technically prehistory includes everything that happened before the word happened. However, technically again the Indus Valley Civilization did have a script, although it has not been decoded yet. So, its generally included in Ancient History nowadays. For India, it begins from the Indus Valley civilization to just after the king Harsha Vardhana, which is around 00-800BC. During or after this period came Aryans who composed these evocative hymns to nature and celebrated life exuberantly referred to themselves as Aryas usually anglicized as Aryan meaning noble. The 6 Century B.C., was the period of Magadh Kingdom. Chandragupta Maurya ousted the oppressive ruler of Magadh to find his own dynasty that existed from 322-298 B.C.