This document summarizes religious developments in Europe, the Islamic world, India, and China between 1500-1700: In Europe, Protestant Christianity broke away from Roman Catholic Christianity in the 1500s, and both groups spread their faith to the Americas and Asia. In the Islamic world, the 18th century Wahhabi movement advocated for a return to strict monotheism and sharia law in Arabia. In India, the Bhakti movement blended Hindu and Sufi elements through songs and rituals, while Sikhism emerged from a blend of Hindu and Islamic influences. In China, Buddhism became more accessible and Neo-Confucianism was revived under the Ming and Qing dynasties.

1. Europe, Islamic Empires, China

2. SPLIT in WESTERN CHRISTIANITY (1500s -)
 PROTESTANT Christianity broke from ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY
 Spain?
Portugal?
Netherlands? Great Britain?
CHRISTIANITY SPREAD
 Both Protestant and Roman Catholic groups
made efforts to spread Christianity to the
Americas and parts of Asia.

3. REFORMS in ISLAMIC WORLD
 Several groups worked to attack corruption of
Islam and syncretism (mixing of Islam with other
cultures and beliefs)
WAHABISM (1700s)
 Return to strict adherence to monotheism and
the sharia
 Combined with a new political state in Arabian
peninsula

4. BHAKTI MOVEMENT – Hinduism 1500s
 effort to achieve union with the divine through
songs, prayers, dances, poetry, and rituals
 Helped blend elements of Sufism and Hinduism
SIKHISM – 1500s
 Blend of Hinduism and Islam gradually became
its own religion
 Sikhs developed into a militant community

5. 
Buddhism became more accessible to
common people (salvation available to all)
NEO-CONFUCIANISM
 Revival of Confucianism in both Ming & Qing
dynasties