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Judaism, Christianity and Islam all are connected by the Holy land and believe in one God.

The founding father was Abraham, who was said to believe in one God as well.

Abraham and his wife, Sarah, set out for the land of Canaan.  According to Jewish tradition, God first appeared to Abraham and promised that his descendent would inherit all the land around them.

Sarah remained childless and in despair, gave Abraham her handmaid, Hagar, who had a son named Ishmael.  According to Islamic tradition, Ishmael became the father of the Arab people.

According to the Jewish faith, God appeared again, saying the promise would be fulfilled through a son. This promise was fulfilled when Sarah gave birth to a son, Isaac. As a test of Abraham's faith, God commanded him to sacrifice Isaac but stopped him at the last moment.

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God called to Moses from a burning bush and told him to lead his people to the Promised Land of Israel.

Moses led his people out of Egypt and into the Sinai, where he received the Ten Commandments and the other laws of the Torah, the Jewish bible.

Solomon, the son of King David,  is credited with building the great temple in Jerusalem that became the center of the Jewish religion. When Solomon's reign ended, Israel descended into religious and political turmoil.

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From the about 300 B.C. onward, the Holy Land was under the control of military rulers. The Romans conquered it in 63 B.C. and held it for centuries.

About 35 years before Jerusalem was destroyed, a young rabbi began proclaiming that the kingdom of God was at hand. Jesus of Nazareth was a gifted teacher and healer and people believed he raised people from the dead.

Less than three years after he began his teaching, Jesus was arrested in Jerusalem by Roman authorities and executed on a cross.

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4. Christians refused to worship Roman gods

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4. Christians refused to worship Roman gods

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Religious leaders rejected the claim that Jesus was the Messiah. His followers were shouted down and driven out, but the number of believers continued to grow.

The Apostle Paul began preaching a universal message that salvation through Christ was available to all.  Communities of Christianoi, Crists people, refused to worship the Roman gods and were persecuted. Many believers, including Paul, were murdered.

The hostile climate changed dramatically around A.D. 300.  Christianity became the official religion of Rome.

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In A.D. 610, the man who came to be known as the Prophet Muhammad had a vision that the angel Gabriel announced he was the "messenger of God." Over the next 22 years, the messages Muhammad received would become the Koran, the sacred text of Islam.

Like the first Christians, Muhammad and his early followers did not at first see themselves as starting a new religion. They believed that God had spoken through other prophets.

Islams followers, called Muslims, retold many of the central stories of the Bible, with some important differences. The Koran describes the Patriarch Abraham as the first Muslim. Ishmael, rather than Isaac, is the favored son who received God's blessing. Jesus is considered a prophet and miracle worker, but not the son of God.

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6. Peace ends with religious wars/conclusion 

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6. Peace ends with religious wars/conclusion 

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Muhammad is believed to have gone to heaven from Mount Moriah, on the back of a winged horse. Mount Moriah is where the Jewish temple was built. Muhammad's followers later called it Haram al-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary, and built the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque there.

The three faiths lived together in relative harmony. Christians, Jews and other monotheists were considered believers in God and generally left alone.

A series of Christian religious wars called the Crusades sought to take the Holy Land back from Islam. This would not be the last time that people would fight over it.