Class Notes from Thursday, August 29

• Religions: Karl Jaspers = "Axial Age" 600-300 BC
  India = Buddha
  China = Confucius, Lao-Tse
  Iran = Zoroaster
  Israel = prophets
  Greece = philosophers
  
• Alexander the Great (356-323 BC)
  Iran, Central Asia, borders of India, Syria, Egypt
  
• Greeks = "barbarian" = language
  Jews = "gentile" = religion
  Romans = imperial citizenship/politics
  
• Universalist Traditions
  Jews
  Persians
  Greeks
  
  Monotheism
  
• Language Families
  I. Semitic
       A. Akkadian
            1. Assyrian
            2. Babylonian
       B. Canaanite
            1. Biblical Hebrew
            2. Phoenician
            3. Carthaginian
       C. Aramaic
       D. Arabic
  II. Indo-European
       A. Greek
       B. Farsi
       C. Armenian
       D. Latin
  III. Uralic-Altaic [to come later]
       A. Turkish