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    but it all depends on what that soul during its life to determine where it stay forever. The Ancient Greeks‚ Egyptians‚ and Mayans all believed that once you die your soul goes to a place either a paradise or hellish place. They were all separated by hundreds of years and were thousands of miles away on different continents. Oddly they all share the same beliefs on the afterlife. The Ancient Greeks believed that the soul good or bad first had to go the underworld realm of Hades‚ the land of the dead

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    Mayan Culture Facts

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    Do you really know the Mayan culture? Their culture was unique like No other. Did you know the last Mayan state existed until 1647 and That no one really knows what caused the collapse of the Mayan Culture. The three main things that the Mayan culture like no other Is their food‚ believes and their life style. The Mayans believes were very different then any other person they Believe in blood sacrifice. Some Mayans still live in their home region And even still practice

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    vast and rich region of America‚ Mayan culture covered the territory southeast‚ of what is now‚ the Mexican Republic that is part of the states of Yucatan‚ Campeche‚ Tabasco‚ Quintana Roo and eastern Chiapas‚ as is most of Guatemala‚ Honduras‚ El Salvador and Belize which in fact covers a land area that varies according to the various archaeologists and historians. The Mayan people created one of the most original and great ancient civilizations (Sabloff 14). The Mayans are not a homogeneous group‚ but

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    Women In Mayan Culture

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    Different Cultures Nowadays‚ women worldwide are having more opportunities than ever before. Although‚ we are currently in the 21st century and the way women are seen is defiantly differently from the past‚ but there is no doubt‚ women are still looked upon as week. In today’s culture‚ women do not have a very protuberant part as males do. Treatments and roles towards women from culture to culture differs‚ some women are mistreated in a culture and others are praised in another culture. Nonetheless

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    course establish two centres of authority in the Americas “Mexico (which they called New Spain) and Peru (known as New Castile)” (Source12) There was also mandatory conversion to Christianity. There was a stage when Provincial Landa found that the Mayans had ongoing idolatry‚ which led to the arrest of thousands of natives who were suspected on idolatry and Landa supervised the torture of “...more than 4‚500 people over the course of three months; many were tortured to death” (Source 8); idols where

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    Greek Culture

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    Greek culture is a culture that I know little to nothing about. In the Greek culture‚ family is very important. In their culture it is very important to have a good‚ trusting relationship with their doctor. Typically a male would see a male doctor and a woman would see a female doctor. In most cases‚ Greek families like to know of an illness of someone in the family before the ill family member finds out. The family members would like to decide if the diagnosis is worth telling the sick family member

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    “music” we owe to the Greeks. Greek poets‚ architects‚ mathematicians‚ and philosophers‚ founded a culture that we still identify with today. These are the people that introduced the world to democracy‚ the beginning of recorded history‚ politics‚ and even our very own vocabulary. To some extent‚ we even owe the start of theatre and comedy to the Greeks. The Greeks taught us a lot of things‚ good or bad‚ these things are still being used centuries after the fall of Greece. They Greek people lived in

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    greek culture

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    Exam 2 PART I 1. The early Greek city-state was divided into four social classes and they were: eupatrids‚ agroikoi‚ demiourgoi and the slaves. Eupatrids (“sons of noble fathers”) are citizens with full legal and political rights; free adult men born legitimately of citizen of parents. They had the right to vote‚ be elected into office‚ bear arms‚ and the obligation to serve when at war. Agroikoi are the farmers‚ which had no formal political rights but full legal rights. Demiourgoi are the “public

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    which are different from nowadays. One example of these civilizations is the Mayan Culture. There are plenty of aspects of the ancient Mayan culture that Americans today should know; for example‚ they should know about their astronomy‚ their gods‚ their myths‚ and their politics. Astronomy was important for the Mayan Culture because it was the basis of their religious beliefs. According

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    Mayan culture gender means that women were to work in their homes mostly providing food and clothes for their family. If necessary they were allowed to come and help bring in the harvest. Women were not allowed to hunt‚ only able to clean and serve the food‚ such as deer. Women weren’t allowed to hunt deer only men did that. So after the women cleaned and prepared the food the men would eat first and the women would wait until the men finished to have their women only dinner. Gender as a whole relates

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