Tag: world history
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1516 – Andrea Corsali and Ahimsa
Italian explorer Andrea Corsali references Gujaratis & the Hindu concept of Ahimsa in a letter Andrea Corsali worked for the Florentine Giuliano di Lorenzo de’ Medici, one of the wealthiest Italian families. The Medici dynasty had become famous through its trade routes and never ignored any new trade routes. Corsali was financed by the family…
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976 – Hindu numeral system adopted by Christian monks
In Christian Europe, the first mention and representation of Hindu numerals (from one to nine), is in the Codex Vigilanus, a collection of several historical documents from the Visigothic period in Spain, written in the year 976 by three monks of the Riojan monastery of San Martin de Albelda. Between 967 and 969, Gerbert of Aurillac discovered…
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200 BCE – Snakes and Ladders
Moksha Patam, or ‘Snakes and Ladders’, as it is known in English, gained popularity in the West in the 20th Century, having originated in Bharat as part of a family of dice board games, along with Gyan chauper and pachisi (present-day Ludo and Parcheesi). The game has a strong association with traditional Hindu philosophy contrasting…