Christianity to the Americas What were the major global processes from 1450-1750? Global Processes 1450-1750 Triangular Trade Network (including Atlantic Slave Trade) Exploration European Colonization of the Americas…
Returned to Songhai and vigorously spread Islam.” Mohammed was able to spread the word of his religion that he valued so deeply he decided to study it in depth for two years. Mohammed was very clearly devoted to his religion and loved it so much that he wanted to share it with everyone else, which led him to praising the word and trying to spread it to his…
It bears witness to the Christian worldview of the Spanish explorers that these two men viewed the Christianization of the American savages as their primary goal in colonizing the New World. De Las Casas, as a friar,…
Ibn Battuta – a scholar from Morocco who traveled first to Mecca and then through Asia Minor, Persia, India, Indonesia, and China. Later, he traveled to Spain. The record of his travels is of great interest to historians.…
Lasting more than six centuries, this Empire was one of the longest, best organized, and most enduring political entities in world history.…
The teachings began to make sense to him. He compared the teachings to eras of his life like during the time period where a Caucasian person had been a “devil”; it was this devil that ruined his home, killed his father any maybe even led to him being in prison. After being freed from prison he devoted his life to Muhammad. X believed Muhammed saved his life. He traveled the country giving public preachings, and opening NOI temples.…
The Spanish ideals of non-christians were very strong. Even the converts were criticized, “Such converts were euphemistically referred to as new christians, and were often the target of discrimination in an empire that had become unified on the basis of militant religiousity.”[1] Such an age of ego drove the kings to explore territory not only for riches and fame, but for the possibility of “spreading the good word”. During Cabeza de Vaca 's amazing journey, he went from the hunter to the hunted, from the giver to the begger, and from the fat to the…
A religious factor that helped promote European exploration was the instance to Christianize the Muslims. One person who helped was Ferninand Magellan (1480-1521). He explored the coastline of South America, conquering and converting non-Christian people. Also, the Portuguese and Spanish tried converting while overseas. They tried converting Muslims and African…
This is a map of the Old World about 1300. Ibn Battuta and fellow Muslim traders had already ventured out into China, Indonesia and further, and had established small Muslim communities in more regions of the world. Ibn Battuta would seldom be far from fellow Muslims on his travels, and he would greatly benefit from the charity and hospitality offered to Muslim travelers and pilgrims.…
In 1178, the Sung document reports that Muslim sailors voyaged to America, known to them as Mu-Lan-Pi. In the 14th century, there are two major events in Muslim History. In 1310, Muslim king, Abu Bakar, initiated several voyages to America and in 1312 African Muslims used the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico to explore interior America. Further growth began to develop in the 16th century. In 1530, America saw its’ first African slaves. More than 10 million Africans were brought to America as slaves, more than 30 percent of those were Muslims.…
Which best describes the Muslim presence in North Africa in the late seventh and early eighth centuries?…
The monarchs of both Spain and Portugal financed their expeditions with the goal of spreading Catholicism to the New World. The foundation of Catholicism is to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. Even Columbus himself had religious ideals while making his journey to find new lands. Columbus “believed he was a divine agent: ‘God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new Earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John…and he showed me the post where to find it’ “ (McKay 499). Explorers Bartholomew Diaz and Vasco da Gama also had religious aspirations as they searched for a trade route to India. On every expedition, several missionaries were brought along in order to help convert the natives of the land to the Christian…
Abdullah ibn Masúd used to comment this on one of the Companion, "Umar’s submission to Islam was a conquest, his migration was a victory, his period of ruling was a blessing, I have seen when we were unable to pray at Kaábah until Umar submitted, when he submitted to Islam, he fought them [the musyrikin] until they left us alone and we prayed." He is a legacy that will always be remembered for his bravery and loyalty towards Islam, and even after years of his death, Muslims still looked upon his life story for inspiration and role model. He is one of the ten Companions guaranteed to enter Jannah (paradise), Umar al-Khattab.…
The Story of the Fisherman and The First Voyage of Sinbad are two Arabian Nights’ stories that seem to have some things in common, but yet have some things unalike. First, we have the setting. These two stories both take place by the sea, but the appearances are completely different. In Sinbad’s story, he sailed on the Persian Gulf, where beautiful islands with beautiful kingdoms lay still, filled with luscious fruit and clear springs. The beautiful springs of water flowed through the islands, watering all sorts of delicious herbs and peaceful animals. In the fisherman’s story, however, the seashore was horrific and nasty. The ocean floor had tons of waste left by people, and mucky water filled with shredded leaves and prickling tree branches. There also was a lot of moving around in Sinbad’s story, but the fisherman didn’t move around as much, and stayed by the seashore the whole time. This seashore was more horrifying than a week old pile of dead fish!…
In this essay I will discuss the way the play “The Road to Mecca” represents women’s rights to express themselves freely. Helen is a widow who lives in a rural Afrikaans town in the Karoo, New Bethseda. Since her husband’s death, Helen has filled her home and garden with statues and works of art such as wise men, camels, owls, mermaids and other figures. She has decorated her home with candles and mirrors and mosaics. She has created her own “Mecca” of beauty and freedom among the conservative Afrikaans society that surrounds her.…