Polytheism Basic features (including gender roles)
Belief in a number of deities that can be anthromorphic or related to the non-human world
Polytheism Major Areas of Spread up to 1000/Missionary outreach
Everywhere
Confucianism Basic features (including gender roles)
5 relationships, Mandate of Heaven
Confucianism Major Areas of Spread up to 1000/Missionary outreach
East Asia
Daoism Basic features (including gender roles)
Yin-Yang, Duelism in Nature, People part of the balance in Nature
Daoism Major Areas of Spread up to 1000/Missionary outreach
East Asia
Hellenism Basic features (including gender roles)
Trade and common culture throughout Mediterranean. Science and technology developments at Alexandria-Library
Hellenism Major Areas of Spread up to 1000/Missionary outreach
Mediterranean
Hinduism Basic features (including gender roles)
Caste system, multiple expressions of deities, emphasis on ritual prayer, sacred texts
Hinduism Major Areas of Spread up to 1000/Missionary outreach
South and Southeast Asia
Buddhism Basic features (including gender roles)
four noble truths, eight-fold path, mahayana, hinayana, theravada, tibetan
Buddhism Major Areas of Spread up to 1000/Missionary outreach
South/Central/East/Southeast Asia
Judaism Basic features (including gender roles)
monotheistic, emphasis on daily prayer, sacred texts, messianic, rabbinic leadership after destruction of Second Temple
Judaism Major Areas of Spread up to 1000/Missionary outreach
Mediterranean, Northern extent of the Roman empire, Southwest/South/Central Asia
Christianity Basic features (including gender roles)
Monotheistic, Jesus Christ as savior, Gospels, emphasis on saints, schism between eastern and western churches, coptic and ethiopian churches
Christianity Major Areas of Spread up to 1000/Missionary outreach
Mediterranean and then expansion into Latin West, areas controlled by Byzantines, Ethiopia, India