This charming Asian country has always attracted tourists with its mystery. Many people believe that this is a wild country with no sanitation, where you can easily get infected with some kind of disease, where people adhere to strange customs that are far from the place in the 21st century. But still, this country has presented mankind with many different achievements, and many of them were invented in ancient times. We invite you to find out interesting facts about Ancient India.
1. In India such a popular board game as chess appeared, and this state is also the birthplace of geometry and algebra. Although modern Hindus are not strong either in chess or in the exact sciences.
2. Many people in our time follow the teachings of Ayurveda, but it appeared in India 2500 years ago, and Indian doctors in ancient times were well aware of the basics of medicine, they knew about anesthesia, genetics, the immune system and the nuances of the digestive system. Surgery appeared in ancient India. At the same time, the operations were carried out not in barbaric ways, but using special tools. For example, the Hindus in ancient times already knew how to remove stones from the kidneys. Extracts from plants and infusions were used to treat serious ailments, although other civilizations did not even know about such possibilities of medicine.
3. The inhabitants of ancient India knew how to make sugar from cane.
4. The ancient Hindus should be thanked by lovers of hookahs, it was this people who invented this way of smoking. The Hindus taught the Persians, they showed the delights of unusual fun to the Egyptians, gradually the whole world learned about this discovery.
5. This civilization is also rich in its own pantheon of deities.
6. Science was actively developing in ancient India. The sages made discoveries both in astronomy and in mathematics, they knew the meanings of the number pi, they invented the decimal system of counting, some mathematical terms also appeared thanks to the bright minds of the Hindus. As for astronomy, scientists already at that time guessed that the Earth revolves on its axis.
7. Rich Hindus and literary heritage. What are the Ramayana, Panchatantra, Mahabharata. And collections of legends and tales delight in their wisdom and beautiful style.
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8. What comes to mind when we think of India? Yes, songs, dances, without them it is impossible to imagine this colorful and beautiful country, even Indian films cannot do without spectacular dances. But it all started with the ancient rituals that the tribes had.
9. Indians have distinguished themselves in chemistry. They knew how to properly combine substances to create the most deadly poison, they invented dyes, aromatic substances, and made glass.
10. In ancient India, they knew how to build sewage.
11. There were schools in those days where they taught to sculpt sculptures, however, more often the creations of sculptors were of a religious nature.