Now that you have practiced analogies, take it a step further. Compare the spread of religion in this unit to a recipe for a cake. You will need to research how a cake is made and the purpose of each ingredient. Decide which ingredients were necessary to spread the religion in order for it to become dominant.

Analogize the ingredients of a cake to the components required to successfully spread a religious tradition far and wide. Create your own recipe that includes ingredients and units of measure.

Consider the following, and add any other ingredients you think are necessary in making your cake. Your answer should have a minimum of five ingredients.

missionaries
places of worship
holy texts
trade and/or trade routes
religious leaders
government leaders
government policy
conflict
pathways/roads/migration

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?