Chapter 5 Eurasian cultural traditions

The Chinese culture gave rise to Confucianism and Daoism. Confucious did not deny reality of gods and spirits. Historians had found/traced back and saw that the Chinese had a tradition of state building. In china there were legalistic philosophers. Legalistic had a pessimistic view of human nature. Chinese culture had many artisans, merchants, scholars and other classes. To the Chinese their family life was the center of Chinese popular culture. The indian culture had a different civilization than the Chinese. Indian culture embraced the divine. The Indian religion differed from other world religions. Hinduism was indians religion. This religion was never a single tradition and the meaning was derived from outsiders. In south Asian there were varieties of religion from ritual sacrafice to philosophical speculation. Some were known as Vedas which were collections of poems and hymns. This shows us that religion and tradition was very important to the Asian civilizations. In Asian culture many worshipped buddhists. Then came to the point where civilizations started to compare buddhisms and christianity. This led to a diversity within the world.