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Diffusion, Trade Networks, and Syncretism in World Religions

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS

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Examine how commercial routes, state patronage, and cross-cultural contact facilitated the diffusion and syncretism of major world religions across Afro-Eurasia.

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us-maWHI.T2.1Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Map how the Buddhist, Christian, and Islamic religions spread from their places of origin to other parts of Eurasia and Africa to c. 1400 CE, and explain some of the means by which religions spread (e.g., by official government decree, missionary work, pilgrimages, translations of texts, the diffusion of religious imagery and the construction of buildings such as temples, churches, cathedrals, monasteries, and mosques for religious purposes).