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Why is Brahman not easy to worship?
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Brahman is the universe, so he is very impersonal, and hard to relate to.
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Overtime the idea of achieving Moksha, no longer is an independent practice but it becomes more of the gods helping assist one achieve Moksha which is like what?
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Salvation, the idea that the Gods help yo set you free.
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The gods such as Vishnu, Brahman, and Shiva are all the universe, they are used for worship in order to do what?
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Allow for someone to be able to relate to the universe, to build a relationship with the universe, in order to achieve salvation
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Vishnu utilized avatars to do what?
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Vishnu would appear in a new form, whenever Vishnu was needed most.
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How did the way of worship, get introduced into Hinduism?
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Krishna introduced the way of worship, to people in the written work known as the Gita.
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Brahman, Vishnu, and Shiva are all what?
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Creator Gods, because all of the Gods are simply representations of the universe
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A big thing in religion is that religious figures must represent what?
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Oppositions, light and dark, good and bad.
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What can Shiva's third eye do?
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Shoot away ignorance
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What do Shiva's three dances do?
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Start the universe, keep the universe going, and end the universe
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Shiva is often represented in what ways?
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As being a non-sexual yogi, as an ascetic, who has both sexual organs, but also represented as someone who generated 99 sexual positions, and had his dick cut off for banging the wives of tons of Brahman priests.
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Shiva had an idol shaped like what?
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Who was Shiva's son?
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What is the significance of Ganesha?
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He represents luck, and takes obstacles out of the way. He is a jokester God and also a God of dance. He eats donut holes, he rides a mouse.
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How did Ganesha get his head?
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He was decapitated, and his head was replaced with an elephant head.
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All of the Gods have consorts or....
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What is a Bodhisattva?
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Someone who is enlightened but rather than travel to Nirvana, stays in order to help guide others to enlightenment. The Bodhisattvas made a vow when they became Mahayana Buddhists, to gain salvation from the help of other Bodhisattvas, in order for them to one day become Bodhisattvas themselves.
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Every Mahayana Buddhists takes the vow to become a what?
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Bodhisattva
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What are the three themes that are all over the world?
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State building rather than empires
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Salvation based religious reform, change and spread of religion
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Increased contact and trade
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Gupta india is a great example of increased contact and trade, as well as the change and spread of religion. Gupta India is not a great example of what?
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State building
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What were major changes that occurred in Post Classical Africa?
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Gold mining increased
Slave trade increased
Urban Areas Expanded
Islam Continued to Spread
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In Mali Africa from the 13th to 15th century, the warrior themselves would have to pay for their own what?
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Armor, weapons, steed
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Mali Africa had a cavalry of what?
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In 1880, how much European influence is there in Africa?
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Not very much at all
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Trade and expansion helped Islam to do what?
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Muslims do not participate in what kind of conversion?
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Forcible Conversion
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Around 900, everywhere there was trade with Muslims and Africa, there was what?
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The spread of Islam
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Muslims are not allowed to take another Muslim as a what?
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What was West African Religion like?
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Has their own creator God
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Had a strong focus on animals and nature having spirits
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Amulets could protect you from negative spirits
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Who was Mansa Musa?
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He went on a pilgrimage, he was a king of Mali, he caused the price of gold to crash in Egypt, due to how much gold he had. He was muslim.
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How did Mixed Islam come to be?
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West African Religion Combines With Islam
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Muslims could enslave Mixed Islamic people because of what?
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Their form of Islam, differed from the mainstream form of Islam
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What were big trade items in Africa?
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Textiles
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Gold
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Ivory
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Salt
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As Islam travels so too does what?
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Arabic and Literacy
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What is important about the states of West Africa?
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They have extremely strong navy forces in the river, rather than in the ocean, because the ocean was a danger zone for those without proper ship technology that Africa lacked.
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What are the characteristics of Mali Africa?
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The King of Africa claimed to get their power from God. The sisters, mothers, and wives have a great council, that provides over the sate. There was a standardized department of taxation. They had an army and a navy. They had a department for fishing and forestry.
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What is the importance of Tawhid in Islam?
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The idea that god is one.
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What is Umma?
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The idea that a community can be united by shared religious belief in one God. Umma is an Islamic idea.
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What does Al-lah mean?
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Back in the day race was not based on appearance but instead what?
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Greek Orthodox Christrians under Byzantine rule hunted and killed who?
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Other Christrians, those who are non-Greek Orthodox
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What was Mecca like?
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Agricultural, very involved in caravan trade, was a polytheistic area, that also had Jews and Christians,
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