Chapter 3: South Asia – Around the time when alexander the great is now known for his conquest. He invades almost every nation including the southwest corner of Asia like India, Pakistan, and modern-day Afghanistan. while the greeks and later the roman empire set to establish outpost, they had start building upon a much older network of land and sea route around their territorial expansion that create a linking to the Mediterranean Sea and western Europe, which is part of the east. Transmitting cultural influence in the different direction, from west to east were Buddhist missionaries were sent to Greece and the middle east by indian emperor Ashoka. Seeking for linked trade route that goes from china to rome, so they can give out goods like silk, bronze, ceramic and lacquerware while going to a direction that is easy to flow by.
For the type of art indus valley made are glyptic art, which is popular in sumer and akkad, and since there are no monumental painting there. The one glyphic art (3.1) they made were animal, it ranged it subject of bull-zebra stylized beard and thin horn on linear quality and sense of natural bulk. …show more content…
Look at the great stupas (3.10 and 3.11), it was beginning as brick during the reign of Ashoka during the shunga period. The stupa creates a transition between one material and temporal life on earth and beyond cosmos. The stupa dome symbolizes the dome of heaven. It had a stone vedika base on wooden fence. Staircase mark the main entrance to the sacred compounded. It supports a square platform enclosed by a railing, with a pillar that are umbrella-shaped chattras, royal symbol that honor the buddha. At sanchi,the toranas are decorated with representation statute like the yakshas and yakshis pre-buddhist fertility deities, male and female respectively (3.14),with the tribhanga or three bleed posture is the seductive pose .As the pose promises auspicious abundance to