Spread Of Early Religions Essay

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Moving on the the spread of these religions and the experience of early believers. For

Judaism, the early followers were people that opposed the belief in multiply gods, such as the

Romans believed in, and set their mind to a singular, all Devine God. The spread of Judaism

started with Abraham controlling a nomadic tribe journey to canaan, the promise land. One of the

sons of Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, lead the tribe into Egypt, which ended up enslaving the

tribe. Freed by Moses, the tribe made their way to Egypt. In story was told in the story of genesis

and exodus. As for the early experiences, Judaism was pledged with suffering throughout history,

first the enslavement by Egypt, then the split of Israel causing Babylon to
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Then, after Jesus was crucified and killed a man by the name of John greatly increase the

followers of Christianity when traveling to diffident cities. The experience of early Christianity

was mixed, as in salt times Romans would commonly crucify believers of Christianity. Only

when Christianity was allowed did the life's of believers improve, going on to form their only

empire in Gods name. Islam was spread through Muhammad, which was unsuccessful in early

teachings, but became wide spread in the city of Yathrib. The war between Mecca and Islam

clearly demonstrated that the followers of Islam were in such high via the teachings of people

like Muhammad that they ere able to storm and capture Mecca. Early experiences of Islam

followers were successful in maintain peace through military power due to an increasing large

amount of followers. After the war in Mecca, Islamic people thrived and would only further

increase in size and power.

In continuation, we gave the most fundamental beliefs of these three monotheistic

religions. Starting with Judaism, the core fundamental belief can be easily expressed in

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