‣ The oldest beliefs originated in the Indus River Valley, which was mainly
Hinduism
‣ By 500 BCE, Buddhism was introduced to the region by Buddha himself
‣ By 1000 BCE, Islam made its way into the region by way of the Turkic
peoples
‣ ChrisDanity had been in the region since almost the beginning but didn’t
really make an impact unDl Russian colonialism in the 1800s
‣ The last wave of religion was in 1930 as Marxist atheism made its way into
the Central Asia