DBQ The spread of Buddhism in China seemed to be positively looked upon‚ for the most part‚ by the people of China. The spreading of Buddhism was not a short event. In fact‚ Buddhist influence was brought to China by the first century C.E and continued to expand for several centuries. The Chinese had different reactions to this‚ some positive‚ some negative. The basic belief of Buddhism is that if you serve Buddha‚ and obey Buddhist “laws”‚ you will be enlightened (doc 2). As a result of a
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Islam Spreads in Asia and Africa 1. Most Arabs are Nomads • The Arabian Peninsula is mainly a dry‚ rocky plateau. • Most of the peoples in Arabia were nomads called Bedouin. • There was no written law among the tribes. • Some towns became centers of trade. 2. Arabs Follow Different Religions • Kaaba • Tribal gods • Judaism and Christianity 3. Mohammed Established a New Faith • He received his first revelation from God • He rejected the many deities of the tribal religions • He offered
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AP World History 8/5/2012 Question: Analyze the responses to the spread of Buddhism in China. Buddhism was started in India in the 16th century B.C.E.‚ eventually came to China in the first century C.E.‚ and people gradually began to convert to it. Many people in China at that time felt differently about the new religion. Some felt that Buddhism was good for their society‚ and they encouraged the practice of it. Others felt that it was negative thing‚ and that it should be stopped.
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ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF INDIAN BANKING Opinions differ as to the origin of the work "Banking". The word "Bank" is said to be of Germanic origin‚ cognate with the French word "Banque" and the Italian word "Banca"‚ both meaning "bench". It is surmised that the word would have drawn its meaning from the practice of the Jewish money-changers of Lombardy‚ a district in North Italy‚ who in the middle ages used to do their business sitting on a bench in the market place. Again‚ the etymological origin
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Research paper Bangladesh A project on British History ant Civilization CONTENT INTRODUCTION 3 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE ORIGIN AND STRUCTURE OF THE COMMONWEALTH 4 1.1. A HISTORY 4 1.2. THE MODERN COMMONWEALTH 6 2. BANGLADESH 8 2.1. SOME HISTORICAL FACTS 8 2.2. GEOGRAPHY 9 2.3. SOCIETY 11 2.4. ECONOMY 12 2.5. CONSTITUTION 13 2.6. OTHER INFORMATION 14 CONSLUSION 15 LITERATURE 16 INTRODUCTION The title of the paper shows the objective
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1. Introduction 2. History of germanic languages. 3.1. The Indo-European languages 3.2. Historical Germanic Languages 3.3. Present day Germanic languages 3. The chronological division of the History of English. 4. Conclusion. 5. Bibliography. 1. Introduction. This paper is dedicated to the history of germanic languages. Germanic languages‚ subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages‚ spoken by about 470 million people in many parts
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can give without loving‚ but you cannot love without giving” Amy Carmichael. Missionaries have given much good to this world. In the country of India there have been many advances made in the social‚ medical‚ educational‚ and most importantly‚ the spread of the gospel. The purpose of this paper is to examine these effects‚ and the missionaries behind them to see what the grace of God can do in a country. The first place we are going to investigate is India’s medical field. In order to do this‚ one
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Urdu - The Origin and History of the Language Published on February 17 2014 by www.eautytask.com The term ’Urdu’ and its origin The term Urdu derives from a Turkish word ordu meaning camp or army. The Urdu languagedeveloped between the Muslim soldiers of the Mughals armies who belonged to various ethnicities like Turks‚ Arabs‚ Persians‚ Pathans‚ Balochis‚ Rajputs‚ Jats and Afghans. These soldiers lived in close contact with each other and communicated in different dialects‚ which slowly and gradually
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emergence of permanent Hispanic communities. This situation offers an ideal opportunity to examine the dynamics of new dialect formation in progress‚ and the extent to which speakers acquire local dialect traits as they learn English as a second language. We focus on the production of the /ai/ diphthong among adolescents in two emerging Hispanic communities‚ one in an urbanand one in a rural context. Though both English and Spanish have the diphthong /ai/‚ the Southern regional variant of the benchmark
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Responses to the Spread of Buddhism Although some elites in China found Buddhism to be important for the development of China between 220 CE and 570 CE‚ as time progressed through this period‚ Buddhism’s popularity seemed to decrease. Between 200 CE and 500 CE‚ scholars and the few followers of Buddhism seemed to have simply been trying to inform the people about Buddhism and they were attempting to gain popularity. Unfortunately‚ by around 819 CE‚ people seemed to have started disproving of
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