DBQ Assignment 11/20/17
Evaluate the extent to which religious responses to wealth accumulation in Eurasia i the period circa 600 B.C.E to 1500 C.E. differed from state responses to wealth accumulation
During the period 600 B.C.E. to 1500 C.E., the wealthy and the religious in Eurasia responded to the wealth accumulation in different ways. While the state focused on the protection of people’s property rights and fair prices, religious figures wished that wealth should be directed toward the poor or eventually back to the religion itself. This can be seen in China, Maurya, India, Rome, and even in the holy texts of the Qur’an. In China around 350 B.C.E., an agreement