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| Greek Macedonian state created by Seleucus, following the carve up of Alexander The Greats empire after his death. |
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| Came into existence by about 1 ce, ran from wei valley in china through central Asia to Mesopotamia, and ended at Antioch on the Orontes river in Syria, 4000 miles long, goods ideas and diseases transported on silk road.(Ch 9) |
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| an ordinary person might help his or her soul by praying to a Bodhisattvas or by honoring him in some other way. Bodhisattvas was then maybe expected to take care of that individuals soul. Mahayana faith built statutes of Bodhisattvas to honor them. (203) |
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| Prince Gautama was the original Buddha. he was one of many that beleived the conditions of their everyday life was so unsatisfactory that they wished to escape right away. Buddhism arose because not everyone was willing to settle for a life divided between a period of ordinary activity and a period of ascetic withdrawl, as the Brahman priests recommended. (136) |
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