Reading 2

Reading 2
The readings for this week were really interesting learning about the second wave civilizations between the Middle East, India and china were interesting and the fact that this states have nothing in common. It was nice to see how each states makes their own political views. Its crazy to see how a lot of these states are so different from each other like how is that ever possible. It’s just something that I always wonderer about.
Learning about the Persian and Greek Empires
It was interesting to read how much of what we know about Persia comes from the Greeks because Persia has little written records.
When the Greeks introduced the alphabet it influenced languages across Europe.
The Persian also adopted gods from the Greeks. And the Greeks and Persian when into battle against each other in the battle of Thermopylae.
Confucius was someone that was very significant to the Chinese culture. Its interesting to see read how Confucius believed that he found the key to the Chinese problem of disorder. He wanted to be involved in the political world, yet he became a teacher and he really made a change in the Chinese culture and in its history. Many of his students collected his teachings .Its nice to see how Confucius teachings really touched people’s lives. I once took a philosophy class and we discussed a lot on the teachings of Confucius I think he has something in him that really was unique that’s why many people admired him. On the other side his way of teaching and the way he viewed the Chinas disorder was very different from that of the Legalist because the legalist believed in the rules of law I feel that money of the people now days would fall more within the legalist because we live in a world of laws and legal punishments. Yet there are those with more of a liberal mind and attitude and that was Confucius.
In this section it was nice to read about India’s custom traditions as well and how different they are from China. I really enjoyed seeing how culture history and religion still has a huge influence on people today even though many of this traditions where created form long ago.

Reading about the fist civilizations,, states and empires  makes me  analyze how far the civilization has come. It reminds me of my cultural anthropology class because we see how far we have developed.

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  1. AnonymousMay 29, 2017 at 5:21 PM

    Hi Ellie this is Cristal, I am just wondering if you happen to have the picture or notes from last class of the 5 seminal thinkers. If so could you send them to me, I would really appreciate it. Thanks

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