India
Lectures by Melanie Urban
Lectures by Melanie Urban
Sample Lecture Topics
Sample Lecture Topics
- History and culture over 4,000 years, from the Harappan culture into the 20th century
- Gandhara and Greek influence, courtesy of the armies of Alexander the Great
- Cultural and artistic highlights of the great empires, including the Gupta dynasty and the Mughals
- Art, including painting, sculpture, and architecture
- Technologies, including metalworking and textile weaving
- Major philosophies, origins and practice, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam
- International relations within Asia and beyond, including immigrations and invasions from Central Asia and the Islamic empire
- Impact of trade routes by sea from the Roman period through the Age of Discovery
- Trade and colonization under the British
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- Art and Faith
- China
- Crusades and the military orders
- Europeans in Asia
- India
- Islamic world
- Japan
- Persia
- Silk Road
- Southeast Asia
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