Studying for Chapter 13-17

I am having individual trouble with especially the category of India and the Byzantine empire. I need to read the parts about the religions for India and China because I did not know the questions concerning the Bhakti Movement, the Chen/ Zen Buddhism, and missi dominici. I also need to study the government because I did not remember the questions about submission, the "theme" system, Abbasid, and bureacracy.

The Rule monasteries

4. I do not believe
the monasteries would be very helpful as an institution because their strict rules and regulations would teach the younger people to be terrified of life, and anything enjoyable. It would make their lives miserable and depress them for the remainder of their life. Their rigid rules would make it very easy to maintain a controlled environment, however, it would destroy the basic joys that humans a meant to enjoy.



5. The Rule indicates that the time in Europe was very scary and unsafe to live in. The idea that rigid rules that do not allow people to enjoy life and that they are all horrible and only God is good shows that people in that time period were terrified of life after death. This shows that death was prevalent and the idea of dieing the next day was a very real possibility.

Indian Poetry

I enjoyed these poems because they were easy to read and understand. I also believe these poems represented the Indian culture extremely well. The different poems show different relogions and differetpnt beliefs that were rampart across India. They also mention the caste system more than one since that was such a huge part of Indian culture. The poems are mostly about food, love and religion which were all important parts of society.