EconomicsIndia

Economy
 * 1) Caste system
 * 2) Different punishments for different crimes – Brahman killed servant
 * 3) Villagers rarely had contact with higher caste
 * 4) Family life based on hierarchy
 * 5) wife worship husband as god
 * 6) women lost power as male power expanded – common of agricultural societies
 * 7) question – could woman advance spiritually if not reincarnated as man?
 * 8) Arranged marriages – solid economic links
 * 9) Emphasis on loving relations/sexual pleasure
 * 10) children indulged and then expected to work hard
 * 11) clever-strong willed women as goddesses
 * 12) Economy
 * 13) Chemistry, strongest steel – better than West until recently
 * 14) Textiles – cotton cloth, calico, cashmere
 * 15) Emphasis on trade far greater than in China
 * 16) Tamil traders that traded.. cotton, silks, dyes,, gold, ivory