In Class History Notes 10/10/16

• When Was The Post-Classical Period?
• 450-1450 C.E.
• What is State Building?
• Building a State Where It Can Work Independently Without The Need of a Ruler
• What Are Questions You Should Ask About Government?
• 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?
• Who Excels at State Building?
• The Chinese
• They have the best state compared to anywhere else in the world, up into the 1800s.
• What is Going To Happen To Religion?
• They are all going to change
• When Was Islam Born?
• 600 C.E.
• When Is Islam Going to Shift?
• 800 C.E.
• Islam is going to overtake what religion?
• Zoroastrianism
• How Do You Follow Buddhism?
• The Four Noble Truths
• The Eighth Fold Path
• The Midway
• Shed Away Your Desires and Attachments
• Important Questions About Buddhism?
• How Do You Follow Buddhism?
• The Four Noble Truths
• The Eighth Fold Path
• The Midway
• Shed Away Your Desires and Attachments
• What is the end goal of Buddhism?
• Nirvana
• What is the First of the Four Noble Truths?
• Dukkah
• The Thirst
• The Desire for More
• What is the Second of the Four Noble Truths?
• Life is Change
• Things Change
• What is the Purpose of Meditation in Buddhism?
• Realizing that attachments are meaningless, because everything changes, everything fades
• How Do You Follow Hinduism?
• Way of Wisdom
• Meditation on the Vedas
• Way of Works
• Working your way through the caste system
• Way of Withdrawl
• Asceticism 
• Old Religion Focuses on What?
• Helping yourself to achieve the end goal of your religion
• What is Theravada?
• Old School Buddhism
• What is Bhakti?
• New School Hinduism
• What is Mahayana?
• New School Buddhism
• What is the Importance of Religion During This Time?
• More Focus on Personal Relationships with a Higher Power
• All religions will make their religion easier to reach the goal
• Questions Concerning Religion?
• Did those who simplified religious practice do so, in order to better compete with other religions, and make the people happy?
• Changes in Buddhism and Hinduism took place when?
• First century C.E.
• What were the two Changes of Islam?
• Founding 600 C.E.
• Shift 800 C.E.
• In Islam what are Sufis and 12rs?
• Sufis are Sunis
• 12rs are Shiites (Dominate Iran)
• Why Did Religions Change?
• So that they could more easily spread
• What Were The Three Major Changes During the Post-Classical Period?
• State Building
• Religious Changes
• Increased Contact and Trade Between States

Unfinished Out of Class Notes: History

• Devotional Changes in Gupta India, McKay pp. 77-80, 345-346, 351-354
• Important Terms
• Mahayana
• The "Great Vehicle", a tradition of Buddhism that aspires to be more inclusive
• Bodhisattvas
• Buddhas-to-be who stayed in the world after enlightenment to help others on the path to salvation.
• Dharma
• The Sanskrit word for moral law, central to both Buddhist and Hindu Teachings.
• Bhagavad Gita
• Central Ethical Text of Hinduism
• Mahbharta
• The World's Longest Epic
• Important Dates
• Second or First Century B.C.E
• Buddha's Teachings Were Written Down (Before they were transmitted orally)
• 100 C.E.
• The Time of Nagarjuna, the monk-philosopher associated with Mahayana.
• 1200 C.E.
• Buddhism declined in India, losing out to both Hinduism and Islam
• 400 B.C.E to 200 C.E.
• The Brahmanic Religion Evolves Into Hinduism, in response to Buddhism and Jainism
• 322 B.C.E
• The Greeks Supplanted the Persians in Northwest India
• 513 B.C.E.
• Persian Emperor Darius Conquered the Indus Valley and Kashmir
• Late Sixth Century B.C.E
• The Creation of the Persian Empire
• Important Figures
• Nagarjuna
• The monk-philosopher associated with Mahayana
• Arjuna
• The human hero of the epic: Mahabharata