Chapter 4

China had a search for order from 500-221 B.C. because during this time there was chaos, growing violence, and disharmony, this period became known as the age of warring states. They had many thinkers come together and try to figure out what they should do to answer this problem either use the legalist way or the Confucian way or the Daoist way. The Cultural traditions of India were very different from China, while china believed in Confucianism, India's main religion was Hinduism which the two were very different. While Hinduism was coming into play we also see the emergence of Buddhism, Buddhism spread very fast, quickly spreading past India and into many other empires. While in the Middle East we see a monotheistic approach to religion compared to India and China.  We see the emergence of Persian Zoroastrianism and in Judaism, these two monotheistic religions soon become the basis of modern-day Christianity and Islam. some of the main religions fo the Persian empire were Judaism and Zoroastrianism even though they didnt spread that far. While the greeks differed from all of the other empires, we see all the greek City-States believing in Greek Mythology and each city-state having a unique spin on it. Greeks also ha many thinkers during this time especially in Athens, the greatest example of one of these thinkers is Socrates. Socrates was a philosopher, he never wrote anything and didn't give lectures but he would challenge his students by questioning logic. Christianity emerges in the Roman Empire after Jesus's teaching was spread and after his death. Jesus and Buddha both didnt mean to start a new religion they just wanted to revitalize the teachings of there own religion.

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