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1 day ago · The ancient Greeks were not the first to establish their colonies on the Iberian Peninsula. The Phoenicians actually were. The ethnonym Phoenicians described peoples of Semitic origin. Following the establishment of Greek colonies in southern Italy, the Greek tribes looked elsewhere to the Black Sea, Anatolia, Africa, and the western Mediterranean.
7 hours ago · Islam, major world religion promulgated by the Prophet Muhammad in Arabia in the 7th century ce. The Arabic term islām, literally “surrender,” illuminates the fundamental religious idea of Islam—that the believer (called a Muslim, from the active particle of islām) accepts surrender to the will of Allah (in Arabic, Allāh: God).
4 days ago · A Portuguese priest brought the tradition to Brazil in the 1800s to celebrate the Holy Spirit and to commemorate the victory of Iberian Christian knights over the Moors. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) Share
5 days ago · Brazil's Cavalhadas festival celebrates victory of Iberian Christian knights over the Moors People in the heartland Brazilian city of Pirenopolis are taking to the streets in a procession of the ...
3 days ago · The expansion of human networks throughout history and across geography also led to the expansion, growth and diversification of major world religions. The video below animates the global expansion of five world religions made possible by time-space compression and expanding systems of global empires. In order to understand contemporary ...
1 day ago · The term Abrahamic religions (and its variations) is a collective religious descriptor for elements shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [9] It features prominently in interfaith dialogue and political discourse, but also has entered Academic discourse. [10] [11] However, the term has also been criticized to be uncritically adapted. [10]
3 days ago · Over two thousands of years, a diverse range of different Christian traditions and communities developed in different areas of the world. As Christianity spread around the world (usually through European imperial expansion), different communities experienced unique circumstances that resulted in distinctive histories, languages, religious practices, customs, and culture.
