SOC 3106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Upanishads, Indo-European Languages, Babur
6 Dec 2016
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Result of we(cid:271)er"s atte(cid:373)pt to show the protesta(cid:374)t ethi(cid:272) thesis is (cid:272)orre(cid:272)t. That is was one of the causes of spirit of capitalism. The example of marathon run (was the adequate cause of the raise of. Greek culture because what happened to the other countries which the persians conquered - priestly government eliminating all philosophy and art) You have to compare the event with other events in other countries. He asked assuming everything else was similar, was there something resembling the protestant ethic is russia, china and india. He talked a lot a(cid:271)out russia although he did(cid:374)"t (cid:449)rite a (cid:271)ook a(cid:271)out it. Christianity came to russia in the year 1000 and it came at the beginning to the city of kieve which was governed by normans (came from sweden who did trade) 1000 - conversion of large parts of modern russia to orthodox christianity. 1500 the west was the beginning of protestants (calvin and luther) great schism.
