It&#x27;s worth noting that the Abrahamic religions have only been in the ascendancy in the Mediterranean and Middle East for approximately 1500 years.  Before then, there was considerably more variation.<p>Likewise, it would be a similar generalization to assume that Chinese thought has always stayed on the rails of Confucianism. There&#x27;s Mohism, Legalism, Daoism, various schools of Buddhism (some of the pants-on-head-crazy Millenarian variety), clumps of Islam, Christianity (again, sometimes pants-on-head-crazy, see the Taiping...) as well as shamanistic and animalistic traditions retained by various invading foreign dynasties.