Ancient art was largely, but not entirely, based on the nine great ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and Maya.

The Edicts of Ashoka established constitutional principles for the 3rd century BC Maurya king's rule in Ancient India.

Ancient India represented a distinct tradition of law, and had an historically independent school of legal theory and practice.

The Indus Valley Civilization, Ancient India, ( circa 2600 BC ) had sophisticated irrigation and storage systems developed, including the reservoirs built at Girnar in 3000 BC.

Parts of Ancient India and Nepal where Buddhism originated were also for long periods Buddhist, and whether as a result of the Buddhist, Jain or Hindu promotion of the principle of ahimsa ( harmlessness ) many Indians remain vegetarian.

He was a key figure in the Axial Age, the period from 800 BC to 200 BC, during which similarly revolutionary thinking appeared in China, India, Iran, the Near East, and Ancient Greece.

Ancient India had two philosophical streams of thought: The Shramana philosophical schools, represented by Jainism movement, and the Brahmana / Vedic / Puranic schools represented by Vedanta, Vaishnava and other movements.

Weber's work in the field of sociology of religion started with the essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and continued with the analysis of The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism and Ancient Judaism.

This includes the ancient and medieval kingdoms and empires of the Middle East and Near East, ancient Iran, ancient Egypt, ancient Nubia, and Anatolia ( Turkey ), Ancient Nok, Carthage, the Greeks and Romans of ancient Europe, medieval Europe, ancient and medieval China, ancient and medieval India, ancient and medieval Japan, amongst others.

* Avari, Burjor, India: The Ancient Past: A history of the Indian sub-continent from c. 7000 BC to AD 1200, Routledge.

* Singh, Upinder, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th century, Dorling Kindersley, 2008, ISBN 978-81-317-1120-0.

Political philosophy originates in Ancient India with the Hindu text Manusmṛti, or Laws of Manu and Chanakya's Arthashastra.

Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in South America and Africa.

Foreign Trade and Commerce In Ancient India.

Slavery was known in almost every ancient civilization, and society, including Sumer, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Ancient India, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Islamic Caliphate, the Hebrews in Palestine, and the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas.

Formal schools have existed at least since ancient Greece ( see Academy ), ancient Rome ( see Education in Ancient Rome ) ancient India ( see Gurukul ), and ancient China ( see History of education in China ).

The first known states were created in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, the Americas ( e. g. Aztec civilization, Inca civilization ) and others, but it is only in relatively modern times that states have almost completely displaced alternative " stateless " forms of political organization of societies all over the planet.

Max Weber published four major texts on religion in a context of economic sociology and his rationalization thesis: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1905 ), The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism ( 1915 ), The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism ( 1915 ), and Ancient Judaism ( 1920 ).

In the Chronicles of George the Monk and Symeon Logothetes, the following genealogy occurs: " To the lot of Shem fell the Orient, and his share extended lengthwise as far as India and breadthwise ( from east to south ) as far as Phinocorura, including Persia and Bactria, as well as Syria, Media ( which lies beside the Euphrates River ), Babylon, Cordyna, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Arabia the Ancient, Elymais, India, Arabia the Mighty, Coelesyria, Commagene, and all Phoenicia.

* Exotic Tribes of Ancient India

* Kingdoms of Ancient India

During the Han dynasty, another Yin-Yang conception was applied to the Lo Shu, considering the latter as a plan of Ancient China.

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, 1986.

In Ancient China, successful men often supported several concubines — for example, it has been documented that Chinese Emperors accommodated numbers in the thousands.

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

Beginning around 700 A. D., scientists and inventors in Ancient China developed different grades of gunpowder and different types of firearms, including single-shot smooth-bore fire lances, multi-barreled guns, multiple-launch artillery rockets and the first cannon in the world made from cast bronze.

The Golden Rule existed among all the major philosophical schools of Ancient China: Mohism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

Aqueducts were built by the Greeks and Ancient Romans, while the history of China shows they built irrigation and flood control works.

The study of magnetism in Ancient China dates back to the 4th century BCE.

In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein ( κερητίζειν ) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick ( kéras, κέρας ) In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1, 000 years.

* Dachang Ancient Town — China ( flooded by the Three Gorges Dam )

* Kuizhou Ancient City — China ( also flooded by the Three Gorges Dam )

312 – 230 BC ) developed a Confucian doctrine oriented on realism and materialism in Ancient China.

According to scholarly consensus, the earliest example of an administrative meritocracy, based on civil service examinations, dates back to Ancient China.

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

* Graham, Angus C., Disputers of the TAO: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China ( Open Court 1993 ).

* Vitalii Aronovich Rubin: Individual and State in Ancient China: Essays on Four Chinese Philosophers.

Law enforcement in Ancient China was carried out by " prefects ".

In Ancient China, prefects were government officials appointed by local magistrates, who reported to higher authorities such as governors, who in turn were appointed by the head of state, usually the emperor of the dynasty.

Law enforcement in Ancient China was also relatively progressive, allowing for female prefects.

Ancient Korean tomb in Ji ' an, Northeastern China