Animated Map Shows How The Top 5 Religions Spread Around The World Through History
- 5 years ago
Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the greatest religions on the planet. In the course of the last couple of thousand years, these religious gatherings have formed the course of history and affected the direction of humankind. Through incalculable clashes, triumphs, missions abroad, and basic verbal, these religions spread far and wide and everlastingly formed the enormous geographic locales in their ways.
Video: 5000 years of religious history in two minutes.
The map slows down for the births of key religious figures and major wars, showing the decline and spread after these events.
The religions traced by the map are Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism.
The fascinating display begins withe the birth of Krishna and the spread of Hinduism back in 3,000BC.
Next, we see the birth of Abraham and the modest spread of Judaism before the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites.
Around 480BC, Jerusalem is sacked the Jewish diaspora began in earnest.
Around that same time was the birth of Buddha and the spread of Buddhism in Asia, which continues as Christianity is in its infancy around 32AD
The birth of Muhammad in 570AD begins the massive spread of Islam and sparks Christian/Islamic wars such as the Crusades.
By modern times, the map is filled with vast swathes of blue, or Christian lands and almost equally large green, or Islamic ones. Buddhism retains its hold in China while Hinduism holds fast in India.
Music: Kaddish (Angelic Instrumental) by Dhruva Aliman
https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/hard-to-get-along
http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/
Video: 5000 years of religious history in two minutes.
The map slows down for the births of key religious figures and major wars, showing the decline and spread after these events.
The religions traced by the map are Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism.
The fascinating display begins withe the birth of Krishna and the spread of Hinduism back in 3,000BC.
Next, we see the birth of Abraham and the modest spread of Judaism before the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites.
Around 480BC, Jerusalem is sacked the Jewish diaspora began in earnest.
Around that same time was the birth of Buddha and the spread of Buddhism in Asia, which continues as Christianity is in its infancy around 32AD
The birth of Muhammad in 570AD begins the massive spread of Islam and sparks Christian/Islamic wars such as the Crusades.
By modern times, the map is filled with vast swathes of blue, or Christian lands and almost equally large green, or Islamic ones. Buddhism retains its hold in China while Hinduism holds fast in India.
Music: Kaddish (Angelic Instrumental) by Dhruva Aliman
https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/hard-to-get-along
http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/