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hellzabethThis one took a while, but yeah, more imperial goodness with India, this time featuring Portugal! Cande I wonder if you're beginning to realise how often you inspire me to do things like this?
And naturally, more stuff I doodled in RS class. They're kind of crappy, yeah, I had to keep covering my notes.
And your obligitory history lesson:
In 70AD, the Romans, tired of Israel's constant uprisings, destroyed the land of Israel and deported a large amount of the Jews to be slaves in the Empire. Naturally, the Empire collapsed, and the Jews spread, seperating into two groups; some going to Iberia and North Africa, and others going to Germany and Eastern Europe.
Because they were so far apart (and these were the days before most people, especially former-slaves, could afford letters) they began to develop different cultures. The Sephardi Jews, the ones that went to live in Iberia, were much more chill with the food laws, such as keeping milk and meat in one fridge. The Ashkenazi, however, were much stricter. This is because in Germany and Easter Europe at the time, Christianity was blossoming quite nicely, and while the Jews weren't openly loathed (until later) they were shunned and gathered together in ghettos. Iberia, at that same time, was controlled by the Muslims, who were pretty chill with the Jews, since the Qur'an says to respect the "people of the book" i.e. the people that were monotheistic (believed in the one God).
There are like WAAAAAAAAAAY more Ashkenazi jews in the world. If you live in America and know a few Jewish people, chances are they're Ashkenazi. I'm not even kidding, 80% of the Jewish population are Ashkanazi. Before the Holocaust, it was 92%.
And then there's loads of subdivisions and it's almost as bad as all the Protestant Christianity subdivisions only not because there are 50 of those and only 6 different Jewish divisions but that's an essay for another time and I need to go to bed so GOOD NIGHT <3
And naturally, more stuff I doodled in RS class. They're kind of crappy, yeah, I had to keep covering my notes.
And your obligitory history lesson:
In 70AD, the Romans, tired of Israel's constant uprisings, destroyed the land of Israel and deported a large amount of the Jews to be slaves in the Empire. Naturally, the Empire collapsed, and the Jews spread, seperating into two groups; some going to Iberia and North Africa, and others going to Germany and Eastern Europe.
Because they were so far apart (and these were the days before most people, especially former-slaves, could afford letters) they began to develop different cultures. The Sephardi Jews, the ones that went to live in Iberia, were much more chill with the food laws, such as keeping milk and meat in one fridge. The Ashkenazi, however, were much stricter. This is because in Germany and Easter Europe at the time, Christianity was blossoming quite nicely, and while the Jews weren't openly loathed (until later) they were shunned and gathered together in ghettos. Iberia, at that same time, was controlled by the Muslims, who were pretty chill with the Jews, since the Qur'an says to respect the "people of the book" i.e. the people that were monotheistic (believed in the one God).
There are like WAAAAAAAAAAY more Ashkenazi jews in the world. If you live in America and know a few Jewish people, chances are they're Ashkenazi. I'm not even kidding, 80% of the Jewish population are Ashkanazi. Before the Holocaust, it was 92%.
And then there's loads of subdivisions and it's almost as bad as all the Protestant Christianity subdivisions only not because there are 50 of those and only 6 different Jewish divisions but that's an essay for another time and I need to go to bed so GOOD NIGHT <3
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Date: 2010-04-29 11:44 pm (UTC)Well, I studied French for three years in high school too, but I can no longer even attempt to read it. :/ Spanish and English share almost the same pronunciation, though, so it's easier to hear it in my head as I read? Idk. I CAN NOT LISTEN TO SOMEONE SPEAK SPANISH AND UNDERSTAND. I am jealous.