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    The document summarizes several major world religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Confucianism. It provides information on their founders, origins, core beliefs, social impacts, and methods of spread or diffusion throughout various regions of the world. Key details include Hinduism originating in India around 1500 BCE based on the Vedas and Upanishads, Buddhism founded by Siddhartha Gautama in India around 500 BCE emphasizing meditation and rejecting desire, Judaism tracing to Abraham and Moses around 1200 BCE with the Torah and Talmud as texts, Christianity emerging from Judaism based on the life of Jesus Christ in the Bible around 0 CE, Islam founded by Muhammad in

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    The document summarizes several major world religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Confucianism. It provides information on their founders, origins, core beliefs, social impacts, and methods of spread or diffusion throughout various regions of the world. Key details include Hinduism originating in India around 1500 BCE based on the Vedas and Upanishads, Buddhism founded by Siddhartha Gautama in India around 500 BCE emphasizing meditation and rejecting desire, Judaism tracing to Abraham and Moses around 1200 BCE with the Torah and Talmud as texts, Christianity emerging from Judaism based on the life of Jesus Christ in the Bible around 0 CE, Islam founded by Muhammad in

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    2ED AP Religions Chart 2010

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    The document summarizes several major world religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Confucianism. It provides information on their founders, origins, core beliefs, social impacts, and methods of spread or diffusion throughout various regions of the world. Key details include Hinduism originating in India around 1500 BCE based on the Vedas and Upanishads, Buddhism founded by Siddhartha Gautama in India around 500 BCE emphasizing meditation and rejecting desire, Judaism tracing to Abraham and Moses around 1200 BCE with the Torah and Talmud as texts, Christianity emerging from Judaism based on the life of Jesus Christ in the Bible around 0 CE, Islam founded by Muhammad in

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    Religion founder, time, place, Beliefs Social impact Spread of religion: How? Where?

    Holy Books (diffusion: trade? Conquest? War?)


    No single founder; India; caste system; karma, social stability (every- TradeSE Asia
    Widely practiced by 1500 BCE; dharma, reincarnation; one had a place); lack
    Hinduism Vedas & Upanishads Polytheistic; meditation; of social mobility;
    ahimsa, satyagraha gender inequity
    (truth force); sati
    Siddhartha Gautama; started Four Noble Truths Rejects desire for Monks (monasteries)
    in northern India circa 500 BCE; (life is suffering, suffering material things; SE Asia, China, Japan
    Sutras caused by desire, crush men become monks
    Buddhism
    desire, follow Eightfold pacifist beliefs, some-
    Path)
    times contrary to
    Rejected caste system;
    militarism; 20th century
    meditation; nirvana;
    rejection of capitalism
    First monotheistic faith; Diaspora in first century Diaspora mainly to Europe,
    Abraham, 3rd century BCE (Israel Ten Commandments CE; anti-Semitism
    then to U.S.;
    Egypt); Moses, circa 1200 BCE discrimination; Holocaust
    Judaism Also, back to Israel post WWII
    (back to Israel from Egypt); Torah (WWII); Arab-Israeli
    and Talmud crisis (1947-present)
    Social stability during Missionaries Europe;
    Jesus Christ (Israel, circa 2nd monotheistic faith; Middle Ages; religious
    Trade, conquest, and
    year 0); Bible (Old and New Ten Commandments; Conflicts (Crusades,
    Christianity Reformation, etc.); Missionaries Latin America
    (Catholic, Testament) salvation
    Improperly used to jus- (PIP) (CAM)
    Protestant, tify conquests (conquis-
    Greek Orthodox) Imperialism (conquest)
    tadors (1500s); Imperial-
    Asia, Africa
    ism (1800s)

    Five Pillars of Faith Equality for all believers;


    Jihad northern Africa (600s)
    Prophet Muhammad; Mecca, 1) Allah, Muhammad, womens rights increase
    Persia (600s);
    Arabian Peninsula (622 CE); Koran (Quran) at first, but diminish as
    Islam Islam spreads to Persia Trade and Missionaries
    Quran (Koran) 2) pray 5x a dayMecca
    3) fast during Ramadan (example of syncretism); SE Asia (1000-1450);
    4) Alms (charity) for poor allows social mobility Conquest Sub-Saharan
    5) hajMecca Africa
    Social stability; gender Trade (cultural diffusion)
    Confucius, China circa 550 CE, Five Relationships inequality; social Japan during Chinas Tang
    Confucianism Analects (look them up) (superior to inferior); mobility via civil ser- Dynasty (600s)
    Mandate of Heaven vice exams; Mandate
    of Heaven continuity
    AP World History
    of dynasties (1700s Mr. Cummings
    BCE to 1900s CE)
    AP WORLD HISTORY NAME ________________________________

    Religion founder, time, place, Beliefs Social impact Spread of religion: How? Where?
    Holy Books (diffusion: trade? Conquest? War?)

    Hinduism

    Buddhism

    Judaism

    Christianity
    (Catholic,
    Protestant,
    Greek Orthodox)

    Islam

    Confucianism

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