What happened to the land of the Zoroaster in Persia, now the Islamic Republic, or the land of the Buddha in Afghanistan and Pakistan? What happened to the West Bank, the biblical birthplace of David, Solomon, Jesus, and John the Baptist? Why is the Bahia World Center located in Israel? Most scholars believe Hinduism started somewhere between 2300 B.C. and 1500 B.C. in the Indus Valley, near modern-day Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Christians have lived in the region that is modern-day Turkey since the first century when Christianity emerged.