China

China experienced a renaissance like Europe did. Not only beneficial to the Chinese but their ideas and technologies spread to Eurasia and many other parts of the world. China's seminal thinkers created sets of philosophical ideas that were supposed to, in their eyes, benefit society. Some of these included Daosim and confucianism. Unfortunately, these philosophies only benefited men. As a result, women were treated as property and did not have much control over there own lives. On another note, China's revolutionary inventions such as silk, printing, the compass, the mirror and gunpowder reached and benefited the rest of the continent. The invention of gunpowder and the receiving of the fire cannon strengthened China's military. In relation to religion in Europe's renaissance, the Chinese culture also adopted the religion of Buddhism as a principal religion.