The Rise of Islam AP World History The Arabs • Semitic speaking people of the Middle East • Nomads who moved regularly to find water and food • Settled in the Arabian peninsula – desert land – lack of rivers and lakes The Arabs • Organized into independent clans/tribes to help one another with the harsh environment • Each tribe had a sheikh • Developed the caravan trade and were major carriers of trade from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea • Conflict over water & pasture land w/warrior
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Analyse how the individual is guided towards acheiving inner peace in TWO religious traditions. (18/20)Inner peace is defined as an internal quality of calmness and security which puts the mind at ease and fills the adherent with a sense of tranquility and assurance. For adherents to Christianity and Islam‚ inner peace is an inevitable and hugely rewarding consequence of genuine faith. It is developed rather than striven for‚ through a unique combination of personal‚ communal‚ scriptural and doctrinal
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would be Seker Bayrami (Festival of Sugar) and Kurban Bayrami. (Eid el Adha). There are also celebrations some of the celebrations would be the willingness of (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his son (Ishmael). It occurs just after the annual pilgrimage‚ or Hajj‚ to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Those who can afford it will sacrifice an animal on this day.There is also a three day festival for the Eid el Adha. 4. Significant Structures: Name: James Dunkirk Answer: Turkey has several sacred sites and places of
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Malcolm X was an activist that continued on the legacy that his father showed him and left behind. Just like his father he wanted peace and he wanted to get it even if it meant that things got violent. He wanted the equality for black people. He didn’t think that how blacks were getting treated were fair. He was going to fight for what he thought was right by any means necessary. Malcolm X was born on May 12‚ 1925. His parents are Earl little and Louise little. He had eight siblings and the middle
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Explain how the understanding of peace is expressed through the sacred texts in 2 religious traditions There is more to peace than the absence of conflict. It also includes a sense of tranquillity‚ a sense of inner peace and wellbeing and harmonious relationships. Peace is internal‚ external and different people encounter different aspects of peace. Religious teachings from the religions of the world have played a huge role in finding ways to achieve peace. An example of this is the principle
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Leo Africanus was a captured slave given to Pope Leo X after the reconquest of Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella. He was baptized in 1519 and sent to Africa in order to observe and report back to the pope what he saw. In 1526‚ Africanus traveled through Timbuktu‚ a large city in the Songhai Empire in Western Sudan‚ a region consisting of the Sahel and surrounding grasslands from the east Atlantic coast through the western Lake Chad. His account shows that the society had a booming economy‚ citizens
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APWH Ch. 13-15 Test Review Chapter 13 The Commonwealth of Byzantium 1. According to Procopius‚ two sixth century Christian monks undertook an elaborate smuggling operation to provide Byzantium with the knowledge to produce A. Steel B. Iron C. Ceramics D. Silk 2. The only classical society that survived in the centuries after 200 C.E. was the A. Han dynasty B. Byzantine Empire C. Hellenistic Empire D. Mauryan dynasty 3. Byzantium’s major advantage
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Malcolm X The history of the United States has in it much separation or segregation due to race. For a long time our country has seen racism as a large problem and this has caused ethnic groups to be looked down upon or forced into a lifestyle of difficulties and suppression. Due to this‚ races‚ particularly African-Americans‚ have been forced to deal with unequal opportunity and poverty‚ leading to less honorable ways of getting by and also organizations that support change. Malcolm X is
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A holiday is a day designated as having special significance for which individuals‚ a government‚ or a religious group have deemed that observation is warranted. It is generally an official (more common) or unofficial observance of religious‚ national‚ or cultural significance‚ often accompanied by celebrations or festivities. Contents [hide] 1 Etymology 2 Regional meaning 2.1 Australia‚ Canada‚ UK 2.2 U.S.A. 3 Types of holiday (observance) 3.1 Religious holidays 3.2 Northern Hemisphere winter
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each field‚ including ideology‚ aesthetic ideas and habits. The religion has developed for hundreds of years; with the active communication between Eastern and Western cultures‚ the tourism are triggered with the religion activities like Buddha or Hajj (Amanda 2001). The architecture and sculpture of religion also attract the common tourists strongly. The religion could be exchanged to cultural tourism resources and the tourism could also promote developing and expanding religion culture. China
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