1. William McNeil's argument is that caste and territorial sovereignty had enormously different effects on the development of Indian and European societies.

McNeil defines a caste as a group of people that will eat together and intermarry. He also explains it as new people shoe come along are defined as there own caste. Also castes can be centered around occupations.
The book defines a caste as a social class of hereditary and usually unchangeable status. The distinct social groups and the term used to define Indian social order.

The three feelings and thoughts that helped maintain the idea of the caste were
Ceremonial purity, the idea that you are always above somebody unless your the lowest of the low and reincarnation.

I think these tag convincing because each one gives severybody something to look forward too or at least hold on to and in the days when life was a lot of work and very little reward that was important

Because people in one caste usually only interacted with those people there was no strong movement to unite everybody under one political government

This was because of the rise of priests and there idea that they could sway the gods through prayer

The Upanishads brought the idea of reincarnation and the belief in breaking out of that cycle. Also that in order to break out of the cycle they had to live good life's and preform rituals.

McNeil defines a teritorial sovernty as a state or unit with supreme power.

Because the Greeks could not find proof of gods they strayed away from that and began looking into things they could prove such as natural laws.

The Flowering of the Greek civilization was because of the adherence to the polis also the limitation of activities were not compatible with the polis. Each achievement surrender other alternatives.

I buy his argument. With anything just a little change even if it came from the same place cause people or things to go in many different directions. Because of the difference in these two societies structures they became very different cultures with different beliefs and political systems.