Week 2 Review: Spread of Religion

I try to look at the announcements every day, but sometimes I just end up skimming that latter half of the page. I actually did that for today's announcements, but this extra credit gave me a very good reason to look through a little more thoroughly, and I'm glad I did. 

Today's announcement blog featured a very interesting video about the spread of religion through the world. I had no idea that Hinduism was the world's first major religion. It was very interesting the see how quickly Islam spread after Muhammad was born. Also interesting was the impact colonization had on the spread of Christianity, although that is a little more well known. 

Animated map shows how religion spread around the world

Video at Youtube

This video reminds me of a video that Dr. Houser showed my Foundation and Mentoring in Social Studies class last semester. It's a bit long, but also very interesting. 

Human Population Through Time

Video at Youtube