RLG351H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Consumerism, Neve Electronics, Jewish Diaspora
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Historical background: drew the map to emphasize how massive this area is and how adjacent to the global centers of culture at that time. India and from china we get high luxury items ex. The two empires would fight (byzantine and sasanian) The battles are happening very close to arabia. We need to place muhammad and quran in the environment. Pagan arabs represented the people of arabia. The shores in which arabia geographically isolated because it was very difficult to access. By 570-628, byzantine and sassasian empires were in a continuous fight which almost became a. Judaism represented in sassanian empire, in northern arabia. religious war. In that environment where religion is becoming more and more central to that identity of citizens in that empire. We believe in that century, something happened to the identity of citizenship especially in the. Roman empire where an individual felt as a christian first before roman.
