AP Human Geography

Chapter 5 Study Guide 2

1. Why are the hearths of a religions usually extremely important to religious
adherents?

2. What are the two categories of religious hearths? Explain how they
differ from one another.

3. What two religious hearths have generated more religions than any
other?

4. What is the term diaspora a specific reference to in terms of religion?

5. How many Jews are estimated to have been living outside of Palestine
in the 1st century C.E.?

6. Where did the majority of them settle?

7. What prompted many Jews to leave Europe and return to Palestine in

the mid-20th century?

8. When was Israel officially established as a country?

9. What other religion shares a similar hearth with Judaism?

10.
What three types of diffusion factored into the spread of
Christianity?

11.

In what way did Christianity spread by contagious diffusion?

12.
Who spread Christianity throughout the Mediterranean via
contagious and relocation diffusion?

13.
In what way was Christianity spread hierarchically during the 3rd
century C.E.?

14.

In what modern day country is the hearth of Islam located?

15.
In what specific region of this country are the two holiest Islamic
cities located?

16.

What are the two holiest cities in Islam?

17.

Through what form of diffusion did Islam initially spread?

18.

What aided the early spread of Islam (what routes did it follow)?

19.

What other factors aided the spread of Islam?

20.

How far had Islam spread by the 8th century C.E.?

21.

How was it spread through relocation diffusion?

22.

Approximately how long ago did Hinduism originate?

23.
Where do most scholars believe the hearth of Hinduism is
located?

24.

How did Hinduism originally spread according to scholars?

25.
What form of diffusion allowed Hinduism to spread outside of the
Indian subcontinent?

26.

How many Hindus live in Indonesia on the island of Bali?

27.

How many Hindus live in the United States?

28.

Where is the hearth of Buddhism located?

29.

How was Buddhism spread throughout Central Asia?

30.

What are monastic communities known as in Buddhism?

31.

How did they aid the diffusion of Buddhism?

32.

Where did Buddhism spread to in the 4th century C.E.?

33.

Where did it diffuse to in the 6th century C.E.?

34.

Where did it spread to in the 7th century C.E.?

35.
What is the 3rd religion that shares the Indic hearth with
Hinduism and Buddhism?

36.

In what century did it originate?

37.

It shares the exact same hearth as what religion?

38.
What contributed to the limited spread of Sikhism and its
diasporic communities?

39.

What type of diffusion would this be?

40.

Sikhs were sent to what main areas of the former British Empire?