Spicer, Ramos, McFarland

Nationalgeographic FOR teens

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Judaism ( Israel, Pakistan )

Basic on the beliefs are that god is the creator of rule, life, and meaning. They believe in all people are created equal. People should have the choice and the right to have freewill.

Between the god and the Hebrew people there is a “coven relationship”. The people would have places of worships like in a temple or in the wailing wall. Mohammad and Jesus where thought the religion and went on there own to find followers. Some celebrations are like Rosh Hashanah-The Jewish New year, Yom Kippur– independence day, and Hanukkah.

This region's religion is Judaism witch was begging around 164BCE and so on. This is a 4000 year old tradition . IN the torah you will find some of the origins for the Hebrew people.

Spiritual and physical ancestors like: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Israel is located in the middle of Syria, Egypt and Jordan. 14 million worldwide believers.

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( Mecca, Saudi Arabia )

Some beliefs are that the bible is named Qur’an. The Qur’an has 114 chapters and to turn into an adult life they would memorize the whole book. You pray five times a day and when ever you want. God is the only God and wants you to be loved. To be loved by god you should do good things to be loved by friends and family. Some places to worship are like the masque and no one is leading the prayers. Followers are named Muslims. There's many prayers but basically they get on their knees to pray. No celebrations are known of this religion.

Mecca Saudi Arabia is found to be known for its religion Islam. Islam is one of the earliest monotheistic religion.

Reveled almost 1400 years ago or more. Muhammad is one of the final prophets along with Abraham, and Jesus. But he is also the one known founder of this religion. Saudi Arabia is only for Muslims and not opened no one else. Allah is their only one god. There is 1.5 billion worldwide believers.

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( India ) This regions religion is Buddhism.

Siddhartha Gautama is founder of the Eight Noble Truth. The religion was found 2500 years ago form today. There is no one god nor many because there’s no personal god. Also has not just started in India but in Japan, China, and Thailand. That has made it an international religion. International brings out a big number like an estimate of 376million believers.

They go by the path to enlightment is through the development of mentality, meditation, and wisdom. Change can always be made and Karma affects your future is or not thought is all positive or negatively. God has no role because there is no one god and instead a list and Buddha of information to fallow for a “good life” as followers of the religion.

There is NO relationship between god and the individual. Two places Buddhist used to worship in are monasteries and temples but since there’s no god they are used to meditate.

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( India, Nepal ) Hinduism is found to be a main religion in India and Nepal because it’s the 3rd largest religion.

Hinduism was found in 3000B.C.E by no single founder.

Everything has a god to worship. But three main gods they fallow as an example is Brahman, Vishnu, and Shiva. There seems to be two huge civilizations where the many ancient figures were found. In Harappa they worshiped many good and goddesses but also many animals. In these places there was water soundings because water is secrete and holy to them. There are about 376 million worldwide believers.

They believe in Transmigration when all things should be born again and again as the other life.

In this case it all depends on what you do and don’t do that complicates your second life. Karma is another way to put it. So better be on dharma (proper path of life).

God/s and goddesses is just a figure to thank for all good.

Worships take place 3 times a day at home with shelves decorated with puja. There’s no priest but you and prayers are in water or at home depending on what part of life you’re in. Some examples of celebrations are Mahatma Gandi, Baisakhi, and Naap Panchimi.

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( Bethlehem, Israel ) Bethlehem was found be known where Jesus Christ was born. Bethlehem is now Israel around the Sea of Galilee who was under control of the Roman Empire back then. Jesus was the son of god raised by Virgin Mary and a carpenter. Not much of its childhood was known but little miracles until he turned 30 years old. After he went out to look for 12 people who were saved by god to be his apostles, he himself went on to teach the religion along with the 12. Jesus claimed himself to be king and was Crucified to “death” but appeared to be sent to heaven. Christianity has been around for 2000 years since 80 CE. This is the largest religion because there are over 2 billion believers worldwide.

God is the only god to Christians because his creator of the universe. Also they go by The Golden Rule “treat others the way you would like to be treated. They believe God protects them from all evil. Christians go to churches with a priest to read out of bible and face daily stories that have a religious title behind it.