China And Buddhism Similarities

Following the Foundations Era, the classical civilizations used methods to unify populations through their beliefs and imperial legitimacy. This was due to the rise of population number and the need to bring these large populations together, this population increase was due to the agriculture abundance. Chinese civilization and Indus civilization both developed sophisticated belief systems by influential philosophers like Confucius and Siddhartha Gautama. These philosophers developed the teachings of Confucianism and Buddhism which were some of major beliefs and were open to anyone who believed in them. The development of these regions led to similarities and differences in the use of religion and imperial legitimacy to unify populations in China and India from 600 BC to 600 AD, but the similarities among the differences were more influential, in that
China and India both unified people through religion because of their cultural diverse inside of their empires. China focus of religion was religion through living a simple life with Confucianism and India religion Buddhism was through karma these both were ways of unifying populations. Both China and India used imperial legitimacy to unify populations through conquering territories around to show their strength. Although in India, Asoka used imperial legitimacy beginning of his reign and after conquering territories he converted to a religion to not remember his blood thirsty past, the Han dynasty kept the idea of Imperial legitimacy constant during their rule.

China and India both used religion to unify people because of their cultural diverse inside of their empire. India’s religion Buddhism was taught by Siddhartha Gautama and showed people in India the