How has ancient India influenced the modern day world?

<h3>How has ancient India influenced the modern day world?</h3>

How did Classical India influence the modern world?
Like China made the printing prompting more efficient ways to produce writing and their invention of gunpowder made the inventions of new weapons increase greatly.


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<p><i>Answer by Mark</i><br/>India's impact on the modern world hasn't been that big. Especially when considering the population it has now and size of the country.
Indian food and receipies can now be found all over the world, herbs and spices which were traded from India, like cinnamon, via the arabs and then directly with Europeans when the Portuguese first landed in south asia.</p>
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Farmers in Punjab are caught in a vicious cycle of over use of fertilizer, growing costs, agrarian debt and misery, the ubiquitous picture of the content and smiling Punjabi farmer seen on many a calendar in India seems like a cruel joke CREDIT: Akshay Mahajan for the Wall Street Journal IUREA

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