Intro to Political Geography part 3

Brazil 

Dilma Rousseff

Federal Republic









Venezuela


 Hugo Chávez


federal republic





Saudia Arabia 



monarchy

Intro to Political Geography part 2

Israel


 Shimon Peres


Parliamentary Democracy 















Germany 




Joachim Gauck


 two-chamber parliamentary democracy





United Kingdom

No president 

parliamentary constitutional monarchy





France 

François Hollande

Unitary semi-presidential republic

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Mexico

Felipe Calderón  

Federal Constitutional Republic

China


Hu Jintao

Single Party Communists Group

India


Pranab Mukherjee

Representational democracy










Afghanistan



Hamid Karzai    


 Islamic Republic

Iran

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad


Islamic Republic

5 Questions for the test!!!!????

These are my 5 questions :

1. What does Christianity and  Judaism have in common? they both share the old testament
2. Is Buddhism a monotheistic ,  polytheistic , or neither religion? neither
3. Is Hinduism a way or life or religion? a way of life
4. True or false- Judaism worships the same God that Muslims and Christians do. - True
5. True of false- Christianity is a polytheistic religion - false

October 12th 2012..part 3 ..

Judaism:

Judaism is a monotheistic religion. It was founded in 1500 BC. It has 13.4 million followers. They believe in God. They have a holy book called the Torah. Judaism and Christianity are similar because they both believe in and use the old testament of the bible.



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Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100916181942AAxXGnx

October 12, 2012 (continued)

Buddhism:

                Buddhism was founded in 6th century BC. It is neither monotheistic or polytheistic. Buddhism doesn't believe in one God or many gods. They have a holy book called the Tipitaka. They have 350–500 million followers, mostly in Asia. There prime figure is Buddha. 

http://www.stpats.qld.edu.au/images/content/kp/mapworld1234.png

                 

Sources:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buddhism     

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080921115748AAcFUAX

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080514150203AAwYUv9

                

Hinduism: 

Hinduism is the 3rd largest religion in the world. It was founded in 5500 BC. It is a monotheistic religion. Its holy books are called Vedas. They are guidelines of the ways of life. They believe that there's a spirit inside of them that is eternal. 

http://factsanddetails.com/media/2/20120501-582px-India_Hinduism11.png

Sources: 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_Hindus_have_a_Holy_Book_like_the_Bible_or_Koran

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Christianity:

Christianity was founded around the 1st century. Its a Monotheistic religion and  Christians use the bible. It has 2.2 billion followers around the world and is the largest religious group. They believe God. Christians are found all around the world mostly in North and South America, and Europe. The least about is found in the Middle East and China.



http://sites.google.com/site/mideastp6geogrphyhistory/concentration-of-religions

Sources :

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081102183619AAni76I

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity

Islam:

Islam is a monotheistic religion that was started in 610 BC. It is the 2nd largest religion in the world with 1.7 billion followers. Muslims believe in God. They believe that there holy book is the Qur'an  was sent to them. 

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/muslim-population-concentration-geography

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam

October 8th 2012

Today in class we started working on a group project. Our topic was the vikings. We have to present tommorow.

October 1, 2012

Today in class we finished watching the God Grew Tired of Us video. I'm happy that two of them got to reunite with there family's. I can't imagine what its like living in the situation they lived in, in Sudan.