drieddust

If that's your measuring stick then Adolf should get the credit for creating the right condition.

European colonial power would have never left if they hadn't got into war of attrition with Hitlar.

British left their biggest colony India only when Indian soldiers revolted and they were too weak to crush it post WW2. It was simply not possible to rule after this incident.

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She and her family is responsible for a lot of atrocities around the world. Yet a lot of people here are eulogizing as if she was a saint who taught art of living to the people.

To me this is a demonstration of power of conditioning and media management.

drieddust

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Two old yet alive Indian languages Sanskrit and Tamil have hymns even older. I wonder why Sanskrit and it's rich collection of hymns completely gets ignored.

Nasadiya Suktam[0] from RigVeda[1] ponders the questions of our origins in sweet melody.

[0] https://youtu.be/SYlP7DXtyQ8

[1] https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda

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> India as a whole didn't even exist back then...

Vishnu Puran composed circa 400 BCE to 900 CE says.

  उत्तरं यत् समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम् | वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र सन्ततिः ||

 Land that lies north to the sea and south of Himalaya is called Bharat(India) and it's people Bharti (Indian)

Political system was diffrent from what we see today. But that doesn't mean land called Bharat didn't exist culturally and politically.

drieddust

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Thanks, but that's such a narrow definition of the concept.

Shukla Yajurveda[0] conservatively estimated to be written in 1200- 800 BCE period in 17.2.20 constructs powers of 10 upto a billion by names by adding shunya successively to 10.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yajurveda

drieddust

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Isha Upnishad[0] was written in 1st half of 1st millennium BCE as per the conservative estimates. Its Shanti Mantra(wishing peace to all living beings) of says:

ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पूर्णमुदच्यते ।

पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam Puurnnaat-Puurnnam-Udacyate | Puurnnasya Puurnnam-Aadaaya Puurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate || Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||

Rough Translation:

That (god) is complete(puurnnam), this living being is complete. From completeness emerges completeness. When this completeness (living beings) emerges from that completeness (god), only completeness remains.

This verse describes God. But it can also be describing concept of zero and infinity. Buddhist philosophy emerging in 500 BCE is based in shoonyata[1] (nothingness) so concept of zero was definitely known for a long time.

As far as mathematical applications are concerned, we can't say for sure as a lot of knowledge was lost to invasions which specifically targeted universities like Nalanda[2].

Hindus imagined time scales of microseconds to trillions of years which in IMHO difficult to imagine without zero based mathematics[3].

Having said that there are a large number of manuscripts in the hands of small groups and families are yet to be discovered so these dates.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isha_Upanishad [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81 [2] https://www.myindiamyglory.com/2017/09/11/nalanda-9-million-... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_units_of_time

drieddust

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IMHO idiomatic defensive coding is very hard.

drieddust

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> It is also true that in many countries, covering populations much larger than that of the United States, hemp production was never made illegal and continued unabated ...

Only India and China are more populous than USA and it's illegal in India despite being an import and useful ingredient of Indian medicine system.

I am not claiming hemp to be a miracle material. But covert lobbying, scheming to obliterate the superior alternatives does exist.

drieddust

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Bill Gates mother having a seat on IBM's board was not a factor in IBM giving him such a sweet deal?

drieddust

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> No, I don't have any example of any king in Europe...

Kalinga deaths are recorded to be 150000. I will suggest reading about the crusades and others religious wars to find how many were killed. Please also read about how Bible was used to justify the slavery and subjugation of pagans.

Indian conquered upto Cambodia, Persians conquered a big part of known world yet didn't engage in erasing the native population or the culture of conquered. But in contrast almost entire population of native Americans were annihilated. They practically do not exist.

> Would love read more upon 'Abrahmic Philosophy'.

First 2 commandments of bible summarises the doctrine/philosophy.

drieddust

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After Kalinga war Ashoka renounced voilence as per the teaching of Buddhism. Do you have a parallel example from Abrahmic kings?

Having said that every civilization have had destructive infights. People fought for money, power,fame etc.

But that doesn't mean they destroyed each other's knowledge system, temples, and monuments. That's is only true for Abrahmic philosophy which stresses on destroying the culture and knowledge systems of the conquered.

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