Thus the form of Gnostic self - expression can be understood as a consequence of the direct impact of Socratic existence on
highly civilized peoples prepared for the axial revolution, but not yet freed from the dominant power of the mythical.
In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported by the Turks and by various
peoples of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more
highly civilized than all of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith of the majority of the
peoples of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth - century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in human affairs than did Christianity.
Kpagih explained that he had visited the ten Local Government Areas where the election would hold and discovered that
people in those areas were
highly intelligent, peaceful, educated and
civilized citizens.