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Principles and Religions of the Postclassical Period

While in Islamic, Chinese and part of Muslim believe in the principle of treating women as equal counterparts to their men, that the men support the women and that women are able to manage finances of the family, weather the man was dead, stupid or overbearing, and in Eastern, Western Europe and part of Muslim believe that the treatment of women is that they are less than a men, they are stupid because their obligation is not filled because they do not know grace and that children and slaves are naked exposing their private parts when presented to people and in front of their leader.
In the East and Western European societies the principle of the treatment of women was that women were less than their male counterparts and that they were suppose to act as they are just the background and have no voice. In documents 2 and 3 there are negative views on how women should be treated in their society. In document 2 Jewish Commentary on women was that they would try and recite the words of Grace, which is typically the men’s job in the family. They are trying to determine weather women should have the right to say Grace because it says that they do not understand what the words of Grace are and that their obligation to god is fulfilled. In document 3 from the legal code from Byzantine Empire where they though that women should no be accounted as witnesses and that they could not be dishonorable in front of a man. Also, they should be dressed modestly and virtuously and they think that women being able to be witnesses give them the privilege to speak more that they should. As a witness they believe that it is talking offense to a male’s role in their society. In part of the Muslim religion they believe that young children and slaves appear before their leaders and people naked exposing their entire body, and that leaders get their food served by more than 20 slave girls naked in front of everyone. This implies that

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