Caption
The spread of religious ideas
Summary
This map of Eurasia and neighboring areas in north Africa and southeast Asia depicts the spread of Christianity and Buddhism, the dispersion of the Jews to 500 CE, the first areas of Buddhist missionary activity, and the original area of Mahayana Buddhism.
The following areas are also shown:
- Parthia 224 CE
- maximum extent of Kushan empire
- Roman empire, 235 CE
- Han empire, c. 220 CE
Copyright status
Copyright © Times Books 2007
Reproduced from The Times Complete History of the World by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Licensing
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Source
The Times Complete History of the World (2007), p. 79.