Talk:World History Lecture Three

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Bombay doesn't exist any more - it's Mumbai. --Clearlytim 02:34, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

that's great, this isn't a article. Geo. 02:35, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

This requires learning about many new religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism.

Confucianism isn't a religion. DukeAra 06:26, 29 February 2008 (EST)

I've deleted the very last paragraph as it was mostly incorrect. 1. Christianity may indeed be spread by freedom of speech nowadays but that was very much not the case for almost the entire history of the religion, from 330 to about 1750 AD. 2. Evangelism of Sikhism and Buddhism was almost entirely peaceful, much more so than Christianity. 3. Conversion by force is not accepted by Islamic law. HSpalding 20:05, 14 November 2008 (EST)

I've deleted the figure of 1 in 9 Chinese being Christian. This figure is very much too high. I don't know how large (or small) the Christian community is in China, so I haven't replaced it with a more accurate figure. Maybe 1 in 100? HSpalding 20:12, 14 November 2008 (EST)

Language issues

I'd fix these on the page, but Ed Poor asked that I point them out here instead. So:

• Ἰησοῦν doesn't say Iesous. Look at the case :)
• I'm not aware of systems that pronounce Jesus' name in Greek as I-ee-soos (assuming this means the first syllable rhymes with "my" and the second with "he"). Having the first syllable rhyme with "he" and the second with somewhere between "hay" and "hare" is more common. There may be a system, perhaps an American one that my classes didn't cover, that uses this pronounciation, in which case, fine, but maybe put a reference in there?
• "Gospel" is not a Greek word.

DeniseM 17:54, 10 February 2009 (EST)

Confucius

That's a very good concise account, but I wonder if it worth mentioning that Confucius was an atheist (or at the very most, a confirmed agnostic)? The huge criticism of Confucianism is that its static nature and inability to cope with changing circumstances led to the stagnation and collapse of the Chinese empire in he late 19th/early 20th century; the Godlessness of Confucian doctrine is surely the explanatiuon for this fatal absence of dynamism. RegalBruin 11:55, 11 February 2009 (EST)