december 5

example of spatical divisions political alliances - noth atlantic treaty organization - common wealth of nations - organization of american states christianity number of adherents around 2.2 billion geogrpahic locations - europe, the americas, etc founder of christianity -jesus christ holy book - the bible, the new testament beliefs - jesus is both human and divine - the son of god; he led a virtous life, he was crucified, died, and was burried, assecended into heaven and resurected lslam - number of adherent - 1.5 billion call them muslims graphic location - indionesia, middle, east and north africa denominations - sunnis and shiites but sunnies are more common/popular founder - muhammad holy book - qur'an neliefs - monotheistic, abrahamic, five pillars they see their purpose in life as serving and submitting to allah and observing islamic law Hinduism number of adherrent ; 1.1 billion call them - hindus geographic location - india, nepal holy book - the vedas - eternal truths revealed to ancient sages, written in verse form (meant to be sung easily memorized) no distinct founder , a seies of intellectual or philisphoical points of view, rather than strict beliefs reincarnation buddism number of adherents - 500 million call them - buddist geographic location - southeast asia, china, nepal, japan there are 1.2 million buddists in the United States founder of buddists - siddhartha gautama