Like many of the innovations that came to define the Western World, the printing press was not an innovation of the Europeans, but a technology that derived from Asia, Yet, it was a technology that had massive ramifications for the future of western civilization, as witnessed by the Scientific Revolution and the Protestant Reformation. Why do you think that the innovation of movable type did not have the same global ramifications for Asia as it did in Europe? What factors may have accounted for the cultural disparity?

the caste system in india is the paradigmatic ethnographic example of caste. it has origins in ancient india, and was transformed by various ruling elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern india, especially the mughal empire and the british raj.it is today the basis of educational and job reservations in india.it consists of two different concepts, varna and jati, which may be regarded as different levels of analysis of this system.

the caste system as it exists today is thought to be the result of developments during the collapse of the mughal era and the british colonial regime in india. the collapse of the mughal era saw the rise of powerful men who associated themselves with kings, priests and ascetics, affirming the regal and martial form of the caste ideal, and it also reshaped many apparently casteless social groups into differentiated caste communities.the british raj furthered this development, making rigid caste organisation a central mechanism of administration

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they chose sides following the death of the islamic prophet muhammad in ad 632. a dispute over succession to islamic prophet muhammad as a caliph of the islamic community spread across various parts of the world, which led to the battle of jamal and battle of siffin.

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