Governments of the first millennium BCE utilized administrative innovations to manage growing populations and expanding territories. How were these new ideas about order and procedure mirrored in the ideas of axial age thinkers?

A- The Buddha taught that just as individual states had laws, there was a universal law. Each person's station in life was a reflection of their karma, or the cumulative extent to which they had followed or broken the universal law in previous lives.

B- Chinese leaders began to appoint skilled bureaucrats rather than solely employing hereditary officeholders, and Confucian thinkers held that people became fully developed members of society through a process of education, rather than simply by noble birth.