Hi. My history professor just seems all over the place when giving his lecture he gave us a question to answer but i'm just not quite understanding the question ...

The story of the Jewish people shows the power of religion as a force in civilization.

I believe that the story of the Jewish people refers to the persecution they faced for thousands of years from as early as the Middle Ages in the First Crusade to the 1930s in the Holocaust. Their perpetual discrimination due to their religion throughout history shows that religion plays a massive role in events in history/civilization.

Religion was the reason why Crusades began. Religion was the reason why Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts Colony. Religion was the reason why Queen Mary I is infamously known as Bloody Mary. Religion was the reason why heroine of France Joan of Arc was burnt at stake.

Get the gist?