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-people: Buddha
-started: India
-beliefs: desire is root of all suffering, four schools (Therevada [way of elders, monks, nuns], Mahayana [commoners, salvation of all humanity], Tibetan [Dolly Llama, mix of T and M], Zen [meditation, enlightment]} |
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-people: Jesus
-started: Judea
-beliefs: mono, Bible, missionary, patriarchal |
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-people: Abraham, Moses
-started: Isreal
-beliefs: mono, dead resurrected, Tanakh, God's chosen people therefor many responsibilities |
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-people: Socrates
-started: Athens, Greece
-beliefs: no political rights, women have no role in society, love of wisdom |
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-people: no founder
-started: Africa
-beliefs: poly, everything has spirit, nature worship |
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-people: influenced by Almecs
-started: Mexico
-beliefs: poly, created things to make life better for humanity, no violence, 160+ gods |
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-people: Mohammed
-started: Arabian Peninsula
-beliefs: mono, Qur'an, Mohammed received word of God |
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-people: Lao Tzu is "founder"
-started: China
-beliefs: physical senses, superstitious practices |
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-people: the creator
-started: SW North America
-beliefs: strange myths, rejected government ideas, black world to blue world |
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-people: Shiva (bad), Vishnu (middle) -> Krishna + Roma
-started: India
-beliefs: poly, cow has soul, karma dharma and Brahma, every action produces effect |
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-people: Confucious
-started: China
-beliefs: reintroduce things in life in a different way, new way to be human, difference in Chinese government |
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-people: Ahura Mazda (God), Zarathustra (prophet)
-started: Afghanistan
-beliefs: good vs evil, like Christianity, mono |
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-people: Eskimo people
-started: Asia
-beliefs: animism, women worked at home, spirits of nature, government had role |
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-people: Guru Nanak
-started: Punjab, India
-beliefs: inhabited by 1 spirit, karma, cycle of life and death |
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-people: no founder, cathbad (high preist)
-started: Celts
-beliefs: human sacrifices, captured enemies, spirits of nature, sacrifice for Gods, 3 class systems |
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-people: tribal religions
-started: Japan
-beliefs: poly, nature, Kokiji and Nikong (writings), sacredness of universe (humans can be in tune with it) |
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