1. AIM: to what extent do Belief Systems have an impact on the world?
Or alternatively: is it possible to die because of looking at too many maps?

2. What are Belief Systems?
What is a Belief System, a Religion, and an Organized religion?

3. Belief System

4. Religion
The Venn diagram is part of the clue.
Belief System

5. Organized Religion
Religion
Belief System

6. (Some of Planet Earth’s) Belief Systems
• Animism
• Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Hinduism
Buddhism
Taoism
Confucianism
Zoroastrianism
Jainism
Sikhism
Shinto
Deism
Atheism
Agnosticism

7. Who believes in them? What percentage of the world is Christian?
What percentage of the world is Muslim?
What percentage of the world is Jewish?
What percentage of the world is Hindu?
What percentage of the world is Buddhist?
What percentage of the world is Atheist?
Basic question regarding belief systems that should have been covered in AP World History

8. Questions Hearth? Where do most Muslims live?
What is the most populous Islamic country?
Where is the Islamic hearth located?
What is the most populous Christian country?
What continents are the most Christian, in terms of total percentage of the population?
What continent is the least Christian?

9. Questions What is a(n) hearth? Where is the Christian hearth located?
Where is the Catholic hearth located?
What is the difference between a Catholic and a Christian?
Where is the Jewish hearth located?
How about Hinduism?
Sikhism?
Taoism?
Where is the Buddhist hearth?
What is a(n) hearth?

10. Questions
What religions are most popular amongst Sub-Saharan Africans?
Where is the animist hearth located?
BTW…
Christianity : Judaism as Buddhism : ?
Constantine : Christianity as ? : Buddhism

11. AIM: to what extent do Belief Systems have an impact on the world?
Or alternatively: is it possible to die because of looking at too many maps?

15. Animism
Not necessarily anything to do with animals; rather refers to a life force, spirit within various objects e.g.: the land, a tree etc.; think animation – animism.
Not an organized religion but rather the human attempt to make sense of the universe… possibly a primordial connection with the “spirit world.”

16. Location: Most animists live in Sub-Saharan Africa but also in very rural South America and Asia. Used to be wide spread throughout the world.
Tenets: Varies but in Southern Africa:
Single God / supreme being.
Belief in “Spirit World”: spirits coexist with the living and can be contacted. Some spirits evil, some good, some powerful etc.
Ancestral veneration: deep respect for one’s ancestors; may pray to them for help etc.
Thus use of a shaman / witchdoctor etc.

18. What is the one part of the world were a large population of animists reside?

19. Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Location
Middle East, Israel, USA, former USSR
Jerusalem
Middle East, Europe, N America, S America, rest of world
Middle East, Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Iran, Turkey, Egypt
Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem
Impact
Tenets

20. Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Location
Impact
Dietary & Clothing laws based on religious interpretation E.g.: Kosher
Christian Calendar (s)
Laws based on Christian interpretation
Dietary & Clothing laws based on religious interpretation E.g.: Halal
Art & architecture etc.
Tenets

21. Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Location
Impact
Tenets
Monotheism
G – d
→Moses
Torah + Talmud
God,
Jesus
Bible = Torah (Old Testament) & New Testament
Allah
Mohammed
Koran + Hadith

22. Judaism Christianity Islam Location Impact Tenets Golden Rule
Ten Commandments
Golden Rule
Five Pillars:
Shadah
Salat
Zakat
Ramadan
Haj
Jihad

23. various sects / divisions etc.
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Location
Impact
Some of the
various sects / divisions etc.
Hasidim
Orthodox
Conservative
Reformed
Reconstructionist
Several thousand.
RCC
> 2000 Protestant sects
Mormons
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Israelites
Etc.
Sunnis
Shi’ites
Suffis
Wahhabis
Kahrijites
Ismaelis
Zaidis
Fatimids
Nizari (Assassins)
Alawis
Druze
Bahai
The point behind this is to show that there only a few sects of Judaism, numerous sects of Islam, especially Shia Islam, and thousands of Christian sects!

24. 1

25. There are various theories regarding the origins of Indo-European / Aryan people.

27. What founder of Judaism (first prophet) was actually Sumerian?
What Sumerian legends may he have introduced to Judaism?

28. Why did people tend to stay away from the Arabian Peninsula?

29. 2 Z
Persian Empire
What was their religion and did they come into contact with Jewish people?

31. 3 What “Jewish” part of the world did they rule?
Roman Empire at its greatest expanse.
What “Jewish” part of the world did they rule?

32. Diaspora

34. BTW, there has been one other “Jewish” country.

35. 1492: more happened than just sailing the ocean blue. What?

36. AIM: to what extent do Belief Systems have an impact on the world?
Or alternatively: is it possible to die because of looking at too many maps?

37. List as many religious conflicts as you can think of.
Label those conflicts on the blank world map provided.

42. 5

43. After the WWI what happens to Arab lands?

44. 1917 Balfour Declaration

46. Complete mess!

47. Security Fence and Wall

51. 6 Final Solution Madagascar
Uganda
Final Solution
Uganda
Madagascar

52. What Empire had an impact on the spread of Christianity?

53. Spread of Christianity
Hearth?
Spread of Christianity

54. What role did the Roman Empire play in the spread and growth of Christianity?

55. What is this place?
Remember this map!

56. TWE has it changed? How? Why?
2011CE
TWE has it changed? How? Why?

57. Who helped create France with their failed invasion?

58. Everybody wants to be Roman. Why is that ironic?

60. Neither Holy nor Roman or an Empire! Hapsburg Roman wanabees.

62. Where did they originate? Why did the Pope pick them?
Crusades
Where did they originate?
Why did the Pope pick them?

63. Where did they take place?
Europe circa 1000CE
Where did they take place?

64. Europe circa 1580CE

65. 30 Years War

66. TWE has it changed? How? Why?
2011CE
TWE has it changed? How? Why?

67. Byzantine Empire aka the Eastern Roman Empire

68. The early spread of Islam

69. The early spread of Islam

71. Hinduism

72. Founder There is none. Who is the founder of Hinduism?
The origin of Hinduism lies in the original Vedas (epic poems, Hindu scriptures, spiritual laws and truths) brought to South Asia by the Aryans.
When?

73. Basic Beliefs
Dharma: duties and obligations in life determined by one’s birth.
Reincarnation: rebirth
Karma: actions leading to future consequences
Samsara: cycle of birth, death and rebirth
Moksha: escape from Samsara
Nirvana

74. Think of life and time as a circle.
Nirvana
Moksha
Birth / Death
Reincarnation
Samsara

75. At least twice born (reincarnated) castes.
Impact on Society
At least twice born (reincarnated) castes.

81. Buddhism
Founder: Siddhartha Gautama, or Buddha, which means "enlightened one."
Four Noble Truths Siddhartha's  philosophy of the nature of human suffering and its relation to desire is articulated by these four statements:
Life is full of pain and suffering.
Human desire causes this suffering.
By putting an end to desire, humans can end suffering.
Humans can end desire by following the Eightfold Path.

83. Taoism Originated in China
Philosophy founded by Lao Tze / Tsu around 500BCE

85. Tenets
The Chinese term Tao can be translated into English, meaning "the way."
Taoism is a philosophy that teaches one to attempt to live in harmony with nature; the universe; “Get the balance right” and “May the force be with you.”
Ancestral veneration important
Belief in a spirit world
Sound familiar?

86. Yin Yan

87. Yan
Light
Male
Heavenly
Active
Yin
Dark
Female
Earthly
Passive

88. Confucianism
Founder: Kong Fu Zi (Confucius). His teachings were later refined and spread by Mencius. Developed in China around 500 BCE during a period of constant war and anarchy; thus the desire for order.

89. Legalism
Generally considered to be an offshoot of Confucianism.
Legalists believed that humans were basically evil and selfish. The best form of government, that is, the government that best contributed to the welfare of the people, would be one that strictly held humankind's base instincts in check. This government would be ruled by strict and harsh laws; punishment would be severe and swift. This belief in rule by law is why this school is called "Legalist."
- Richard Hooker, Washington State University
Thinking of Thomas Hobbes again?

90. The Mandate of Heaven
The Zhou / Chou Dynasty developed a new political system of authority during the period 1050 – 256BCE which they called “t’ien-ming,” the Mandate of Heaven.

91. Where?

92. Fin

93. Have Belief Systems ever played a role in political conflicts?

104. Have Belief Systems ever played a role in political conflicts?

109. FIN