Hinduism, Buddhism I’m pretty sure that’s the top two
The Molasses Act of March 1733 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 6 Geo II. c. 13), which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-English colonies. Parliament created the act largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British West Indies.
They were fast moving so they took over lots of land then united them by faith. It also helped that they controlled the Silk Road, the biggest trade network between Europe and Asia.
The printing press was important to the spread of the Renaissance and Humanist thinking because it made it easier to print books and pamphlets. People then soon read more often and understood the ideas written in the book or pamphlet. At the time it was the priests who only knew how to read, so they would plant ideas into people's heads causing them to not have ideas of their ideas. Because of the printing press, people started to learn to think on their own.
The soviet union and the korean war and the u.s and all that mumbo jumbo cause alot of problems