Question 1
Discuss the role relocation and expansion diffusion have played with respect to the geography of religion for the following regions:
A) North America and Christianity.
B) Asia and Buddhism.
C) North Africa and Asia (Southwest, Central, South, and Southeast) and Islam
The time of when the Roman Empire fell was when the religion of Christianity diffused outwards. In the remote places in which kept the religious ideas alive, like coastal Ireland and Scotland, it had spread throughout western Europe. In the religions hearth, in Constantinople, the religion diffused to the north and northeast. When spain had invaded and colonized Middle and South America, it brought the Catholic faith to those areas. The protestants whom were tired of the conflict in Europe had came to North America in large groups.
Prince Siddhartha had saw that many people in his kingdom were all miserable so then he was known as the enlightened one. After his death, came an Emperor named Asoka who became a convert. He was the leader of a large and powerful empire so he then traveled from the Punjab to the Bengal then from the Himalayan foothills to Mysore. He sent missionaries to carry Buddhas teachings to distant people. With the help of all of this, the religion had spread as far sourth as Sri Lank and then went west into the Mediterranean, north into Tibet, and eat into China, Korea, Japand, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
When Muhammed had passed, he had already converted kings on the Arabian Peninsula to their religion. The kings were able to use their power to move the armies across the Arabian Penisula through invasion and conquest to then spread the faith. The diffusion went through North Africa then by early ninth century, the Muslim world included emirates by extending from Egypt to Morocco which occupied most of Spain and Portugal. Through trade, the Muslim traders had settled tradin ports in Southeast Asia which was then established as a new secondary hear of Islam