HINDUISM BUDDHISM CONFUCIANISM SHINTOISM TAOISM

Most scholars The history of Buddhism spans Confucianism was developed Shinto, also known Taoism formed into a religious
believe Hinduism started from the 6th century BCE to in China by Master Kong in 551- as Shintoism or kami-no- system within the lands of China
somewhere between 2300 B.C. and the present. Buddhism arose in 479 BC, who was given the name michi, is a religion originating sometime around the 4th or 3rd
1500 B.C. in the Indus Valley, near the eastern part of Ancient Confucius by Jesuit missionaries from Japan. Classified as an East century BCE.
modern-day Pakistan. India, in and around the who were visiting there. Asian religion by scholars of
ancient Kingdom of Magadha religion, its practitioners often
(now in Bihar, India) regard it as Japan's indigenous
religion.
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JUDAISM CHRISTIANITY ISLAM

Judaism originated in Israel around 4000 years ago. The history of Christianity began with the preachings of Most historians believe that Islam originated in Mecca and
a prophet called Jesus in Roman Palestine, which had Medina at the start of the 7th century CE, approximately 600
Jerusalem as its capital. The first communities of years after the founding of Christianity.
believers emerged in the Eastern provinces of the
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