WHAP - Part B: Continuity and Change-Over-Time Essay This essay question deals specifically with analysis of continuities and changes over time and covers at least one of the periods in the concept outline. It can address‚ for example‚ any of the course themes‚ such as technology‚ trade‚ culture‚ migrations‚ or environment. There may also be some internal choice within the question‚ so that students are able to choose to draw their evidence from a case that they know better. The continuity
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The Garifunas are a highly spiritual‚ warm and hospitable people‚ with quite a matriarchal tradition. While most people know them for their music‚ dance‚ and food‚ their worldview and lifestyle go beyond that. The Garifuna people are torn between being efficiently inserted into the dynamics of today’s world and find themselves in a space that has forced them to think and re-think their cultural traditions. The results of this struggle and these debates are bringing into question the demands of the
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Judges 1-7‚ 9‚ 11 – The book of Judges appears to pick up after the death of Joshua‚ but it does recount a few events that occurred in Joshua’s time. However‚ these events are portrayed in a much different way. Instead of the Promised Land being totally under the control of the Israelites‚ there are people groups and areas of the land that have yet to be conquered. The writer justifies this difference by explaining that YHWH let those people live so as to be a test for the Israelites – will they
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were similarities between the Atlantic Circuit and Silk Road trade routes‚ there were more significant differences. The first similarity between the Silk Road and the Atlantic Circuit was that both trade routes created a spread of religion and syncretism and adaptations of current religions. For example‚ the Atlantic Circuit spread and created new adaptations of African religions; in the West Indies‚ slaves were encouraged to adopt Catholic religious practices‚ but slaves also continued African
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Japan: Locked Society to Christianity? Significantly‚ In the Meiji Restoration period in 1871‚ Japan passed into law the “Freedom of Religion.” This declaration has served a wide open door of opportunities to proclaim the Gospel‚ through various means and well-known strategies‚ in all areas in Japan. However‚ why is it that for many decades since then there is just less than one percent of the whole population profess they are Christians: that is despite the fact that there have been significant
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growing crops on burned-off mountain fields. The tribe also still practices crafts such as weaving‚ net knotting‚ and woodworking and have traditional musical instruments and dances. Today‚ this ancient people are Christian‚ but there’s a vivid syncretism‚ a mix of their millenary
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Yudelka Rodriguez Mar 24th‚ 2014 Prof. D’Erizans Week #7 1. What factors accounted for the rapid spread of Christianity? Christianity stared in Jerusalem‚ where the romans killed Jesus trying to stop his teaching from spreading. A persecution broke down against the Jewish Christians or nazarians who were Jesus followers‚ causing them to run out of Jerusalem into Syria and other countries making them spread. These persecutions were one of the causes why Christianity begins to spread a few
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Nazarbayev University Title: The Effect of Daoism and Confucianism on Tai Chi Philosophy REL 213 Chinese Religious Traditions 12.4.2014 Zhanna Kurmangaziyeva Chinese religions are very diverse implementing their philosophy to people’s lives. Religious influence is evident from studying Chinese leisure and activities‚ such as Tai Chi Chuan. Tai Chi Chuan is a type of martial arts which popularity has increased last few decades. Slow movements and meditative philosophy are main characteristic features
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frrdtrtads roam from place to place in search for pasture and moving with the season. Semi-nomads graze their small live stock near the fields of the settlements‚ often trading for goods obtained elsewhere and having all kinds of other interactions. This characteristic is still present in the Near East today. Nomads leave little archeological trace and are illiterate‚ so not much is known about them by direct means. However‚ some description does appear in written form: recorded by the Sumerians
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The King’s Peace Argeads Philip II of Macedonia Battle of Chaeronea Corinthian League Alexander Granicus Darius III Indian Campaign The Successors: Antigonus‚ Ptolemy and Seleucus Hellenistic Age (art‚ literature‚ religion‚ philosophy‚ syncretism) Essay. Choose 1 of the following and write a coherent‚ organized response to it. 40 points 1. Who won the Persian Wars? Defend your position. 2. In the aftermath of
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