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    Caesar’s son‚ making him the next heir instead of Octavian since he was adopted and Caesarion was directly related. The second reason is that the celebration was a mix of Antony’s Roman and Cleopatra’s Alexandrian and Egyptian culture. The growing syncretism of the two civilizations became a source of growing tensions. Octavian took advantage of this growing concern and added heat to the situation by supposedly stealing Antony’s will which read many Roman possessions were to be left to Cleopatra and

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    TOVREA AP World History 600 BCE-600 CE - Daily Schedule 15B 8000 BCE- 600 BCE Unit Assessment HW: Vocab/Study 2.1 16A In class: Lecture Americas; test analysis; map activity HW: Vocab/Study 2.1 17B In class: Lecture Americas; test analysis; map activity HW: Vocab/Study 2.1 18A In class: Quiz 2.1; Rome video Persia Webquest activity; Lecture What is an empire? HW: Read/Study Dates 19B In class: Quiz 2.1; Rome video Persia Webquest activity; Lecture What is an empire

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    it brought about more complex temple developments within the Buddhist temple. It can be seen in this duel religious communication that the duel-belief became great deal as the Chinese Chan tradition of Buddhism owed a good deal of Buddhist-Daoist Syncretism. There were important changes taking place along the Silk Roads as the Western civilisations started reaching the trading

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    During the time of Jesus‚ Romans‚ under the rule of King Caesar‚ ruled Palestine. The Roman government practiced syncretism‚ wherein they accept all previous Palestine religious beliefs‚ philosophical teachings‚ and government systems. However‚ even though the people of Palestine had political and religious freedom‚ they were still under a strict control. For example‚ Palestine had their own court to judge their own people‚ but the final say will be coming from the Roman government. During the Roman

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    Paul Gilroy is a professor of American and English literature whose major area of research interest is the Black Atlantic diasporic culture. As a scholar of Cultural Studies and Sociology‚ he has done significant studies on race‚ racism and culture which have been greatly influential in the recent times. Gilroy’s book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (published in 1993) marks a landmark in the study of diasporas. In The Black Atlantic‚ which is a critique of cultural nationalism

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    Question: Examine the role of the Church in Spain’s conquest and colonization of continental America. The role of the Roman Catholic Church in Spain’s conquest and colonization of continental America was a two-fold process whereby under the façade of conversion and control lay the primary goal of gaining wealth‚ enforcing laws and the inevitable extension of control while condoning the beginnings of European slavery in the Caribbean.[i] Alternately‚ behind the movement for converting Indians

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    1126 • Conversion took a long time: pagan practices and the pagan world-view continued unofficially for a long time; the private practice of pagan rituals was never outlawed and lived on in secret‚ missionaries witnessed them‚ wrote about them • Syncretism: union‚ reconciliation of diverse beliefs • Coexistence of pagan and Christian practices: the dual use hammer-cross; pray to Thor and the Christian god • Professional magicians and witches: made a livelihood by the exercise of magical powers:

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    Mission to Buddhist‚ led to controversy from both the aforementioned faction and the Christian side – the former believed that the Christian missionaries were impacting their religion while the Christians criticized the Mission based upon religious syncretism‚ an attempt to merge contrary beliefs together. This view is contrastive with the opinion of Reichelt and the other pioneers of the Christian Mission to Buddhist movement. The primary reason behind unique attributes of Tao Fung Shan‚ namely the

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    Caribbean Studies Definitions Term | Definition | Tectonic activity | Earth movements that impact and influence the surface of the earth resulting in earthquakes‚ volcanic activity and mountain building are when plate margins interact with each other. | ENSO | El Niño- Southern Oscillation. El nin͂o refers to the warming of the sea surface in the equatorial Pacific‚ which leads to the atmospheric changes known as the Southern Oscillation and rainfall and temperature variations globally. |

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    settled down in the Brahmaputra valley. It was only in the 18th century that they gradually began to accept the cultural elements of the plains people and as this contact continued with an increasing trend for at least three centuries today‚ a sort of syncretism prevails in the Mising culture where the subordinate group (Mising) has moulded elements of the dominant culture and language (Assamese) to fit its own traditions. At the same time‚ this fitting of cultural and linguistic elements cannot be called

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