What is most striking and new about the religious concepts developed by the people of the Ganges Valley? For example, how do their beliefs contrast with those of Zhou China or the Assyrians?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Innovations of the religious concepts in the Ganges Valley
1. texts called the Upanishads illustrate the oral traditions surrounding religion
a. explain how gods battled each other
b. general, mystical belief in the oneness of the universe, infinite and eternal
c. matter is an illusion and we can glimpse truth only in purely spiritual visions or certain kinds of feeling, like selfless love and unspecific sadness, which do not arise from particular physical stimuli
d. describe a cycle of reincarnation
B. Different from Zhou China and Assyrians
1. they depended on the survival or revival of previous traditions or on stimulation by outside influences
2. "theory of everything" does not appear in the thought of earlier civilizations
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