Classical Era

Its amazing looking through the classical era and noticing the rise and predominate roll of religion through out the Eurasian area. These religions are made to help the people guide the people and over all support the community. Today, obviously, a lot of the meaning of the said religions of the classical era have changed a bit in perspective, yet, still holds the same principles they started with.

Religions such as legalism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism are more or less a philosophy rather than a religion, but many people flock to these beliefs with the same fervor as, say, Christianity. Religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam of course focus on what you can do to serve their perspective gods, of course now we learn that religious texts are basically written to persuade the people into their religions, during the classical era, much like today, it is a numbers game, the more people, the more funding, the more advertising.

Now as we move along these eras we start to look into the Eurasian social hierarchs, now of course the same religious text that spouted tolerance and equality was also used to enslave many and make others feel superior to others. Imagine being told that god demands you be subservient to another person, and you believe them, well, because that person was born into a family of wealth, you are told that your day of wealth and happiness will come either in this life or the kingdom of heaven?

You believe this because you know no other life. Many people during the classical era experienced this.

Even today it still happens in our “ modern” societies between those in Mainland China and Hong Kong to the overabundant caste system in India with the untouchables and even in America with the 1% vs. the 99%. Many of the artifacts from this period clearly depict the disparity of those who have and those who are born or raised into slavery. Unfortunately, the same life is depicted today in different form.