Today in class we had a sub and he made us do this....

Christianity started at around 30 AD. Christianity is a monotheistic religion which means they believe in one god. Christianity holy book is called the Bible and is usually made up of 66 books combining the sacred Scriptures of both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Christianity has around 1.3 billion followers. Jesus is the central figure of this religion.
Christianity is practiced mostly in the Americas (North and South America), followed by Russia, Europe and Australia.

Judaism

 

 Tradition holds that Judaism was founded by Abraham in the land of Israel, about 3800 years

 

ago. Archaeological evidence of Jews (Hebrews) in the land of Israel dates back 3600 years.

 

Judaism is a monotheistic religion. The Hebrew Scriptures, referred to by Christians as the Old

 

Testament, are called the TANAKH. In 2010, the world Jewish population was estimated at 13.4

 

million, or roughly 0.2% of the total world population. About 42% of all Jews reside in Israel

 

and about 42% reside in the United States and Canada, with most of the remainder living in

 

Europe.

 

 

                Islam

 

It was founded in 622 CE by Muhammad. Islam is a monotheistic religion. There holy

 

book is the Quran. There is about 1.6 to 1.7 billion followers. The central person for this

 

religion is Muhammad.  The geography is the middle east.

 

           

            Buddhism

 

It was founded in 460 B.C. It has 350–500 million followers. Buddhism is a monotheistic

 

religion. It clams about 550 million followers and it mostly in Asia.

 

            Hinduism

 

            Hinduism was founded in 1500-500 BC in India. It is a polytheistic religion. They have

several holy books,  this religion has around 1 billion followers.

 

The central figures in Hinduism are there gods and there is more than one and it’s in Asia.