Religion/Age

religion/text in the Middle East

Historical transition

religion/text in India

Historical transition

theocratic polytheism/Bronze Age

Pre-Deuteronomic Judaism/pre-Old Testament

formation of Israel in Canaan

Vedism/Vedas

migration of pastoral Indo-Aryan to agrarian Indus Valley

theocratic monotheism/Iron Age

Judaism/Old Testament

start of mega empires

Brahmanism/Early Upanishads

gradual unification in north India

spiritual monotheism/Advanced Iron Age

Christianity/New Testament

the rise of ordinary people

Buddhism/Tripiṭaka

the rise of ordinary people

Absorption of Christianity or Buddhism/Advanced Iron Age

Islam/Quran

dominating the Middle East

Hinduism /Late Upanishads

Dominating India