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|Remarks={{index validated date|October 2012}}[[A General History for Colleges and High Schools (Myers)/Chapter 1, pp. 8-17]]

p. 8. India & Buddah. Many whites imagrated into India by 1500 B.C. Within their Indian territory, there resulted social ranks based on nepitism called castes with the whites at the top of society.
  
p. 9. The whites wrote the oldest hindu hymn book during a 1000 year period as their population moved into India from the northwest. The ancient hymn book was based on the same nature-worship the Greek and Roman religions were based on. 

p. 10. The white breed which populated India was the same as that which was poplulating Europe. In their religion, they considered the universe to be God and called her Brahma. The individual had to get rid of selfishness to be re-absorbed into Brahma, and this purification was thought to take several lifetimes by way of reincarnation. 

p. 11. The lowest two castes (social classes) in India were too “native” to participate in the religion, which was called Brahmanism. So, around 500 B.C. Prince Gautama invented Buddhism. Based on Brahmanism, it was more fun and allowed all Castes to participate. It was popular for quite a while but by A.D 800, it had almost left India.

p. 12. To compete with Buddhism, Brahmanism had become kinder. It became known as Hinduism and took over India again. However, Buddhist missionaries had caused Buddhism to spread throughout Eastern Asia. Europe began to trade more with India after after Alexander the Great invaded in 327 B.C.  
p. 13. Meanwhile, China and Confucius. The Chinese have records of different dinasties back to before 3000 B.C. There is little of world-wide interest in this until the third century B.C., when the Great Wall of China was built. 

p. 14. Also, the Chinese had an alphabet in 2000 B.C. Their letters are based on the sense of sight rather than sound. Each letter has a remote resemblance to an object it can represent, but some words are represented by more that one Chinese letter. The chinese invented printing – printing from blocks in A.D. 600 and from movable type in A.D. 1, 000. The Nine Classics are the Five Classics plus the Four books. Some of the Five Classics are 3000 years old. 

p. 15. The Four Books were written in 400 & 300 B.C. and are about the moralist Confucius. He taught things like “Walk in the Trodden Paths” and “Don’t do to others what you wouldn’t want done to yourself.” In the 200s B.C., when the Great Wall was being Built, the emperor of China ordered the Nine Classics destroyed because they opposed his new roads and the Great Wall, but people hid copies of the Nine Classics.   

p. 16. Confucius with his stress on education and wisdom of the old has been influencing the Chinese since the third certury B.C., although it may have hampered progress in China. China has had colleges since before 1000 B.C. The U.S. in the late 1800’s was trying to copy China’s idea of having civil service exams to make sure government employees are well lettered. The three leading religions in China are: Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. 

p. 17. Tao is the Chinese universe as creator; Confucius was a preacher from China, and Buddhism entered China from India in about the first century A.D. China is very conservative and independant, so the Chinese in the 1800’s were resistant to investments by foreigners such railroads and telegraphs.
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