Ap World Religions Dbq Analysis

Some religions in the documents presented focused on social behavior in the world, some were very spiritual and did not revolve around this world, and some of these ideas are expressed through artwork of certain religions. Certain religious attitudes from 600 B.C. to 600 C.E. had similar beliefs while others were very different. For example, Christianity is monotheistic while other religions such as Hinduism are polytheistic. The religions also had different views of life after death, or if there even was life after death. They were all similar in that they all instilled good and peaceful moral ideas for all of its members to follow. An additional document that would be helpful would be a picture of of the temple in Jerusalem. It could show artwork of a monotheistic religion such as Judaism and highlight there ideas of how they worship God. …show more content…
They tended to talk about ideas of how people should be in this current world. For example, Laozi talks about how we should not amass wealth and worry about money, because he thinks it corrupts you (Doc 1). In document three, the Buddha also discusses how spirituality relates to this world. His sermon discusses that people should use “Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood…” (Doc 3). He continues further listing other important ideas. All of his statements are guidelines of a moral code of how he thinks you should act. Confucius also briefly discusses similar ideas. He says to serve men, not ghosts because he does not want to worry about an after life, what is important to him is this world. (Doc 5). In document one, it can be argues that Laozi is against wealth because he was not rich. This could slant his point of view to be against having lots of