Religion Themes

Throughout the first Unit in the history book, many themes were shown. The most prominent theme was religion, followed by political and social system, and then geography and history. These are themes that have been clearly seen throughout all of time. Religion was apart of every culture. Each group of people and time period involved a religion. The earliest proof of religion was in the old stone age, they they practiced animism. Animism is the belief that the world is full of spirits in animals, object, and dreams. The old stone age was also when people started believing in the afterlife. This is known because they started burying their dead with care. Long after, the Egyptians formed their own religion. The egyptian religion was polytheistic, meaning the belief in more than one god. Some examples of their gods were Amon Ra, who took the human form as the pharaoh, and Osiris, the god of the Nile and the afterlife. Similar to the Old Stone Age, the Egyptians took great care in burying their dead. They would mummify their dead to preserve the bodies because their belief was that this was important in order to enter the afterlife. Judaism, unlike the egyptian and old stone age cultures, was the first

People's immediate surrounding affected their viewpoint on the world. The Egyptians, as an example, surrounded their life around the Nile. This geographic feature shaped the lives of the egyptians, and their religion. Another example of geography shaping the lives of people was shown in China. Because they were so segregated from those around them they thought that they were the center of the earth and the only people alive. On the west there was large mountains and deserts, prohibiting them from safe travel, on the east they had deep and dangerous jungles, in the north they had another dessert, and the east had endless ocean. These geographic surroundings affected their