Very Good! It was the ancient Chinese some 30000 years BC that invented religions. They preists would claim to know the ley lines that caused the farm lands to prosper and for a fee of a bushels here and there would gurantee the energies to be beneficial thus good harvests.
NOW HOW DID THIS SPREAD WEST The caravans of traders on their travels would be enticed to stay at safe stopping points along the silk routes to rest and water themselves and their animals. Also the traders expected to be told and swap stories, This is were Chinese whispers came in , countless retelling would see bits added on and bits changed or exaggerated etc.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.