Faiths and spiritual movements that shaped civilizations and billions of lives.
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Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment and founded Buddhism, a spiritual tradition centred on the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, which spread across Asia and profoundly shaped the cultures of India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
Following the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, his followers established a movement that grew from a small Jewish sect into the dominant religion of the Roman Empire and eventually the world's largest faith.
The Prophet Muhammad received revelations that became the Quran, founding Islam — a monotheistic faith that rapidly unified the Arabian Peninsula and expanded into one of history's largest empires within a century.
The Christian church formally split into the Roman Catholic Church in the West and the Eastern Orthodox Church, a division rooted in centuries of theological, political, and cultural divergence between Rome and Constantinople.