How did Confucianism view history?

Select one:

a.
Studying the past was mostly about studying the mistakes that people had made and learning from them to create a better society.


b.
Confucianism looked admiringly at the past, believing that the ideal society was in the past, during a "golden age."

c.
Confucianism rejected study and scholarship and so was not interested in studying the past.


d.
Confucianism believed that the study of the past was not helpful because it kept people from following a new religious path.