The four great revolutions in thought and religion that occurred in the first millennium BCE shaped the subsequent history of the world as the cultural descendents of India, China, the Middle East, and Greece attempted to define the meaning of life and understand humankind’s relationship with the cosmos. The philosophical and religious movements of the world’s major civilizations contained many common elements as well as significant differences in their attempt to answer the …showed first 75 words of 1147 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1147 total…relationship with the cosmos. As for their similarities and differences there are many, but more often then not they were the words that many people have and still live by in world. Trying to find the meaning of life and aspects that make it up may never be explained, but theories and systems of thought will always be around in order to give us some aspect of who we are in relation to our world.