The document provides an overview of several major world religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Shintoism, and animism. It summarizes the key beliefs, origins, sacred texts, and historical impacts of each religion. Shintoism and animism are both nature-based religions that worship spirits found in natural elements and phenomena.

1. GLOBAL ONE REVIEW 3
Belief Systems and
World Religions

2. Hinduism
Location Type Book Characteristics Impact
Bhagavad-Gita
Polytheistic
India(SouthAsia)
•Reincarnation
•Dharma (duties)
•Karma (actions)
•Vishnu, Shiva,
Brahma
•CASTE SYSTEM!
Born into caste
Determines all
aspects of life
No social mobility
•Partition of India 
religious tension
btwn Hindus and
Muslims

3. Buddhism
Location Type Book Characteristics Impact
--
Tripitaka
India

EastAsia
•Reincarnation
•Karma
•Four Noble Truths
•Eightfold Path
•Striving for
nirvana
•Siddhartha
Gautama (founder)
•Spread out of India
along the Silk Road
• Asoka’s Pillars-
non-violent laws
based off Buddhism

4. Judaism
Location Type Book Characteristics Impact
Torah
MONOTHEISTIC!!
Israel,Europe,USA
•Founder Abraham
made covenant with
god (promise)
Promised Hebrews
a holy land in Israel
•Ten
Commandments
•Anti-Semitism
Crusades, Plague
Protestant
Reformation
Russian Pogroms
Holocaust
•Creation of Israel
after WWII
Arab vs. Jewish
nationalism
Religious conflict

5. Confucianism
Location Type Book Characteristics Impact
Belief
System
TheAnalects
China

Korea

Japan
•Filial Piety (love
& respect for
elders)
•Five
Relationships
•Maintain social
order
•Civil Service- the
ruler should lead by
example
•Stressed education,
scholars held in high
esteem

6. Christianity
Location Type Book Characteristics Impact
Bible–Old&New
Testaments
Monotheistic
AncientRome

Europe,
Americas,Africa
•Jesus Christ is
messiah, both
man and divine
•Ten
Commandments
•Catholicism,
Orthodox
(Eastern), and
1000s of
Protestant types
•Church very
powerful during
Middle ages (owns
land)
•Crusades
•The Protestant
Reformation
•Spreads through
imperialism
Latin America
Africa (White
Man’s Burden)

7. Islam
Location Type Book Characteristics Impact
Koran(Qu’ran)
Monotheistic
MiddleEast,North
Africa,SEAsia
•Founded by
Muhammed (Mecca 
Medina)
•Follow Five Pillars of
Faith
•Hajj
•Trace roots to
Judaism and
Christianity
•Crusades
•Shi’s/ Sunni split
•Islamic Empire
•Sharia- laws based
on Koran
•Islamic
Fundamentalism-
(opposes
Westernization and
supports traditional
Islam)

8. How are Shintoism and animism similar?
Both worship spirits in
nature
Japan
Kami-nature spirits
Indigenous peoples
(native to an area)