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| 79768984 | Legalism | the political philosophy that advocated clear rules and harsh punishments to enforce the state's authority | 0 | |
| 79768985 | Confucianism | established by Confucius; believed in the moral example of superiors | 1 | |
| 79768986 | Daoism | urged the withdrawal into the world of nature; countered and complemented Confucianism | 2 | |
| 79768987 | Vedas | collections of poems, hymns, prayers, and rituals compiled by Brahmins | 3 | |
| 79768988 | Upanishads | mystical and highly philosophical works that sought to probe the inner meaning of the sacrifices prescribed in the Vedas | 4 | |
| 79768989 | Siddhartha Gautama | the Buddha | 5 | |
| 79768990 | Theravada | portrayed the Buddha as an immensely wise teacher and model, but not a divine being | 6 | |
| 79768991 | Mahayana | said that there was help available for the voyage through bodhisattvas | 7 | |
| 79768992 | Bhagavad Gita | the much-beloved hindu text featuring the warrior Arjuna and Vishnu's incarnation, Krishna | 8 | |
| 79768993 | Zoroastrianism | a religion in the Persian empire that believed in a single unique god, Ahura Mazda | 9 | |
| 79768994 | Judaism | the religion of the Hebrew people who believed in the one god Yahweh | 10 | |
| 79768995 | Socrates | an Athenian philosopher who walked about the city engaging others in conversation about the good life; wrote nothing; was sentenced to death | 11 | |
| 79768996 | Plato | a Greek thinker who sketched out in The Republic a design for good society | 12 | |
| 79768997 | Aristotle | a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great; was the most complete expression of the Greek way of knowing because he wrote/commented on nearly everything | 13 | |
| 79768998 | Jesus of Nazareth | a peasant/carpenter from Judea; spent 3 years teaching and performing miracles; exemplified an intense devotion to a single personal deity, Abba | 14 | |
| 79768999 | Saint Paul | an early convert whose missionary journeys in the eastern Roman Empire led to the founding of small Christian communities that included non-Jews | 15 | |
| 79769000 | Greek rationalism | the emphasis of argument, logic, and the questioning of received wisdom | 16 |
