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| 10649960341 | Legalism | Chinese philosophy developed by Hanfeizi; taught that humans are naturally evil and therefore need to be ruled by harsh laws | 0 | |
| 10649965820 | Confucianism | The system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct. | 1 | |
| 10649973653 | Ban Zhao | A major female Confucian author of Han dynasty China (45-116 C.E.) whose works give insight into the implication of Confucian thinking for women. | 2 | |
| 10649976421 | Daoism | A religion in China which emphasizes the removal from society and to become one with nature. | 3 | |
| 10649979278 | Vedas | Ancient Sanskrit writings that are the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism. | 4 | |
| 10649981503 | Upanishads | A group of writings sacred in Hinduism concerning the relations of humans, God, and the universe. | 5 | |
| 10649984014 | Siddhartha Gautama | The prince who is said to have founded Buddhism. | 6 | |
| 10649990499 | Theraveda and Mahayana | Two major branches of Buddhism | 7 | |
| 10649995028 | Nalanda | a famous Buddhist university and monastary located in the eastern Ganges Valley | 8 | |
| 10649998115 | Bhagavad Gita | A book in popular Hinduism that was a response to Buddhism and made reaching moksha way easier. | 9 | |
| 10650002022 | Zoroastrianism | One of the first monotheistic religions, particularly one with a wide following. It was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia. | 10 | |
| 10650004184 | Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews. | 11 | |
| 10650009989 | Greek rationalism | A secularizing system of scientific and philosophic thought that developed in classical Greece in the period 600 to 300 B.C.E.; it emphasized the power of education and human reason to understand the world in nonreligious terms. | 12 | |
| 10650011544 | Socrates | (470-399 BCE) An Athenian philosopher who thought that human beings could lead honest lives and that honor was far more important than wealth, fame, or other superficial attributes. NO BOOK | 13 | |
| 10650014004 | Plato | (430-347 BCE) Was a disciple of Socrates whose cornerstone of thought was his theory of Forms, in which there was another world of perfection. | 14 | |
| 10650015596 | Aristotle | A Greek Philosopher, taught Alexander the Great, started a famous school, studied with Plato | 15 | |
| 10650022136 | Jesus of Nazareth | a teacher and prophet born in bethlehem and active in nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity | 16 | |
| 10650026345 | Saint Paul | The first great popularizer of Christianity (10-65 C.E.). | 17 | |
| 10650029418 | Church of the East | A theologically and organizationally distinct Christian church based in Syria and Persia but with followers in southern India and Central Asia. | 18 | |
| 10650036813 | Perpetua | Christian martyr (one who was killed for their beliefs) from Carthage. Educated and wealthy, she died being fed to leopards. | 19 |
