Timeline of World Religions

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I have a few disagreements with the chart.  There's not really any historical evidence that Zoroastrianism, in any recognizable form, was practiced before 600 BCE, but its origin and development were in Persia (Cyrus the Great, who allowed the people to return to Israel, did commission inscriptions to the God of Zoroastrianism, Ahura-Mazda).  Vedic Brahmanism, upon which modern Hinduisim is ritially and textually based, did not predate 2000 BCE, and in fact its earliest written texts date back only to about 1000 BCE.  (The pre-Vedic religions of India, which have no sure connections to Vedic Hinduism, do go back farther than 2000 BCE, however.).  Finally, I don't believe that Judaism is older than 2000 BCE.