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| When Was The Post-Classical Period? |
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| Building a State Where It Can Work Independently Without The Need of a Ruler |
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| What Are Questions You Should Ask About Government? |
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How Is The State Organized?
How is The State Governed?
What is the Hierarchy of Officials/Who are The Bureaucrats Who Do The Work?
How Does the Government Check and Balance Itself?
How Does The Government Offset the Power of Old Wealthy Families? |
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| Who Excels at State Building? |
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The Chinese:
They have the best state compared to anywhere else in the world, up into the 1800s. |
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Is Gupta India a good example of State Building?
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No, they are an old-school empire
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Is Gupta India a good example of religious change and increased contact and trade between states?
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What made the Gupta Empire a good empire?
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It Unified India, Developed A Column System for Doing Mathematical Calculations with Numbers, and had a strong emphasis in Art. They came up with the number zero, and Hindi numbers. They came up with the value of Pi to the ninth decimal point. Their work with numbers helped to keep commercial accounts.
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| When Is Islam Going to Shift? |
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| Islam is going to overtake what religion? |
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| How Do You Follow Buddhism? |
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The Four Noble Truths
The Eighth Fold Path
The Midway
Shed Away Your Desires and Attachments |
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| What is the end goal of Buddhism? |
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| What is the First of the Four Noble Truths? |
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Dukkah:
The Thirst
The Desire for More |
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| What is the Second of the Four Noble Truths? |
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Life is Change
Things Change |
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| India's great playwright and poet, like the Shakespeare of India |
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| What are Three Things That Continue After the Mauryan Empire? |
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Janapadas, Pangagats, and the Caste System each shaped Indian society and government
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| What is the Purpose of Meditation in Buddhism? |
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| Realizing that attachments are meaningless, because everything changes, everything fades |
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| How Do You Follow Hinduism? |
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Way of Wisdom
Meditation on the Vedas
Way of Works
Working your way through the caste system
Way of Withdrawl
Asceticism |
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| Old Religion Focuses on What? |
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| Helping yourself to achieve the end goal of your religion |
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| What was the First University? |
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| The Gupta Empire was founded by who? |
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The Gupta Empire was a Loose Confederation, which is what?
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A King of King Systems, in which there is one king who the lower kings pay taxes to.
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| The White Huns were around the Gupta around what time? |
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| What is the Importance of Religion During This Time? |
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More Focus on Personal Relationships with a Higher Power
All religions will make their religion easier to reach the goal |
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| For this period, what was the power over India: 700-900 C.E. |
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| There is no Straight Up Power Over India, so the Janapadas, Pangats, and Caste System Keep Them Running |
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| Five Elitist Men Responsible for governing cities and towns |
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| Families that have control over rural areas |
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| Gupta India Heavily Traded What? |
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Cotton
Grains
Ivory
Metal
Precious Stones
Silk
Slaves
Spices
Timber
Tortoise Shells |
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| What are the Important Cash Crops of Gupta? |
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| Questions Concerning Religion? |
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| Did those who simplified religious practice do so, in order to better compete with other religions, and make the people happy? |
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| Changes in Buddhism and Hinduism took place when? |
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| What were the two Changes of Islam? |
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Founding 600 C.E.
Shift 800 C.E. |
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| In Islam what are Sufis and 12rs? |
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Sufis are Sunis
12rs are Shiites (Dominate Iran) |
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| Where was the Abasid Empire? |
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| When were big shifts in trade in China? |
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| Why Did Religions Change? |
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| So that they could more easily spread |
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| What Were The Three Major Changes During the Post-Classical Period? |
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State Building
Religious Changes
Increased Contact and Trade Between States |
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Did China sell slaves internally and externally?
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They sold slaves internally, but not externally, or at least not very much
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Why did Africans trade slaves with each other?
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Africa wasn't very unified, and othered each other based on their individual empires
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| Janapadas, Panchagats, and Guilds work together to do what? |
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| Regulate and structure society |
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| Who were members of Guilds? |
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| Those who work their way up through apprentice ships to become Guild Masters |
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| How do you join a Guild in the Gupta Empire? |
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| Train for seven years under a master as an apprentice, before passing a guild test, allowing you to become a master |
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| Guilds protected their knowledge for what reason? |
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| To keep a monopoly on information in order to stay in existence |
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| Why is there so much training involved in joining a Guild? |
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| To keep the Guild on the up and up, keeping them well respected |
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Gupta Indian Guilds had Welfare, Courts, Public Works and Banking, Essentially they had what?
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Insurance, Social Security, Banking, Courts, and Providing Public Works
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People are born into a Guild how?
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People were born into a caste, related to a guild
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India had what kind of government?
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A collaboration and competition based government, in which collaboration and competition are vital
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What did Guilds do?
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Specialize in specific services that they offer to the kingdom, keeping their methods and knowledge secret, while providing their members with welfare, court systems, banking, and public works.
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| All religions begin to focus on what during the post-classical period? |
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| Reaching Salvation, attaining heaven, being saved by divine intervention |
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