After becoming the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama challenged the Hindu belief that: A. people should pay priests to perform rituals. B. people's souls are influenced by their good and bad karma. C. people are reborn in new bodies after they die. D. people should meditate to clear their minds.

The founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, was born circa 563 BCE into a wealthy family. Gautama rejected his life of riches and embraced a lifestyle of asceticism, or extreme self-discipline.

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as the old saying goes, all politics are local. state and federal governments affect our daily lives in numerous ways. yet, in our federal system, there is supposed to be a balance between federal and state power. as james madison envisioned it in federalist no. 51, “the power surrendered by the people” would be “divided between two distinct governments,” creating a balance of power that would enable the “different governments [to] control each other.”