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- 1261: Confucianism
- ... poor. There are not that many rich people because they have to give a lot of money to the poor. The society is united because of their religion. "Warrior Marks" illustrates the Islamic culture in Africa. Women are treated like animals. They take away there When the Jewish religion is centralized in an area, people tends to have a close bond to their neighbors and their religions is stringer. In the ...
- 1262: Hinduism
- ... members who marry and have families. They are proselytizers who actively seek converts. In the mid-1980s the Hare Krishna movement had more than 200 centers in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. In the United States it was troubled by internal disputes that reportedly led to several killings, and was accused by critics of other illegal activities as well. Varanasi Varanasi (or Benares) is a sacred city ...
- 1263: The Islamic Faith
- ... third century, the Ananga Ranga, written in the sixteenth century on erotic ideas and concepts of India, and The Perfumed Garden, written in the sixteenth century showing insights to sexual customs of mediaeval Islamic North Africa. The latter book will be used to a great extent in this study. The outpour of these books brought forth many customs. Their fame became as religious as Islam's sacred text, the Koran. For ...
- 1264: Religion in Ancient India and Rgypt
- ... the army that was known to be very strong and superior and was composed of Libyan soldiers. Psamtik I was succeeded by his son Necho II, as pharaoh. Necho II made the first circumnavigation of Africa, and he attempted to link the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea by a canal. Ahmose II was the last pharaoh of the 26th dynasty to rule Egypt. He had a long and prosperous reign between ...
- 1265: The Roots of Western Civilization
- ... of four major religions; Jewish, Hebrew, Greek, Christianity. They each contributed abilities to the Western Civilization known today. The area of these religions extended along the Mediterranean Sea, Asia Minor, and the northern tip of Africa and were based around the years 200 to 600AD. The routes of Western Civilization were functional. The first root of Western Civilization, Christianity was a religious group that had beneficial useful techniques. Christianity first came ...
- 1266: The Roots of Judaism and Christianity
- ... States, more than 2 million in the republics of the former USSR, and over 4.3 million in Israel. France, Great Britain, and Argentina also have significant Jewish populations. The once- substantial communities in North Africa and the Middle East have been reduced to small fragments. Most of these Oriental Jews have settled in Israel. Thousands of Ethiopian Jews, for example, were airlifted to Israel in 1984-85 and 1991. Israel ...
- 1267: Religion In Our Lives
- ... is quite possible that religious communities are the "cause" and not the "effect" of religious experience. As is the case with many tribal religions, the community becomes the central force that "designs" the religion. Throughout Africa, many animistic religions have developed as a result of their immediate environment. Weckman touches upon this subject, "Where nature and its processes are the focal point of religious attention, the community is conceived and structured ...
- 1268: Dionysus
- ... band eventually encountered the maenads. The maenads were a group of wild, warlike creatures. They were horribly vicious, and unfortunately, they were also incredibly stupid. They started quite a few unsuccessful wars against kingdoms in Africa. When Zeus finally found Dionysus again, he returned his mind to normal. However, Dionysus refused to give up his unruly traveling companions. The people of Achaea loved Dionysus, but hated his satyr and maenad friends ...
- 1269: The Roots of Christianity
- ... faith. Thus, did the Islamic nations set their sights on the Byzantine Empire. Soon the armies of Islam had snatched Palestine and Syria out of the grasps of the Byzantine. Asia Minor, Egypt and N. Africa converted to Islam, and Jerusalem, a holy city for Christians and Moslems alike, fell to the conquerors. The Islamic Empire was then larger than the Roman Empire had ever been. Unlike the West, the Arab ...
- 1270: A Comparison of Islam and Christianity
- ... control over societies and run them in accordance with the principles of Islam and Christianity. Both took separate paths to accomplish their prospective goals, thus explaining the Islam influence in the Middle East and North Africa, and the Christian influence in Europe and North America. During the decades following the death of Muhammad certain essential principles were singled out from his teachings to serve as anchoring points for the Islamic community ...
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