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10609681670LegalismHardheaded and practical philosophy.0
10609685312ConfucianismMoral examples of superiors was the Confucian key to a restored social harmony. Emphasized education as the key to moral betterment.1
10609697012Ban ZhaoWoman writer who wrote "lessons for women".2
10609700920VedasCollections of poems, prayers, hymns, and rituals transmitted orally and were eventually reduced to writing in Sanskrit around 600 BCE.3
10609715430UphanishadsComposed largely by anonymous thinkers between 800 and 400 BCE. Sought to probe the inner meaning of the sacrifices prescribed in the Vedas.4
10609731796Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)A prince who set out on a six year spiritual quest to find enlightenment and found it at the age of 35.5
10609743216Theravada/ MahayanaMahayana is a modified version of Buddhism. Early version of the new religion, known as Theravada, portrayed the Buddha as an immensely wise teacher and model, but not divine.6
10609758111Bhagavad GitaA much beloved Hindu text.7
10609760325ZoroasrtainismNew religion that rose to challenge the polytheistic ways of earlier times during the "glory years" of the powerful Persian Empire.8
10609770716JudaismBorn among one of the region's smaller and, at the time, less significant peoples-- the Hebrews.9
10609783309Greek RationalismSeparated science and philosophy from conventional religion.10
10609792035Socrates Plato AristotleSocrates was a classical Greek philosopher and one of the founders of western philosophy. Plato was a classical Greek philosopher and the founder of the Academy in Athens. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist.11
10609810319Jesus of NazarethA Jewish religious leader who became a central figure in Christianity.12
10609816169Saint PaulAn early convert whose missionary journeys in the Eastern Roman Empire led to the founding of small christian communities that included non-Jews.13
10609834787Church of the EastChurch of the Byzantine Empire, including the patriarchates of Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem.14
10609846911PerpetuaTo cause to continue indefinitely.15

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