Attitudes of Muslims and Christians Towards Merchants and Commerce From their origins to around 1500 CE, the attitudes of both Christians and Muslims towards trade and merchants shifted as conditions in the Christian and Islamic worlds changed. In the beginning of the religion, Christian attitudes were more negative while Muslims tended to encourage and respect trade and merchants. Over time, Muslims became more like the early Christians in that they were suspicious of traders whereas the Christians became more like the early Muslims, equating merchants with doing God’s word, thus reflecting the changed importance of trade in the late Middle Ages in Europe. At the start of both religions, Christianity and Islam had very different views on merchants and traders. In the New Testament of the Bible, hatred is shown towards wealth and merchants (Doc 1).
From the onset of the Christian and Islamic religions, until about 1500, the two religions began with two different opinions of merchants, but grew together as time went on. As the two religions reached the 1500’s, their view of merchants became almost identical. The missing documents that would have helped make my essay answer the question more fully and complete are two journal entries or documents of an average class standard persons' point of view on an Islamic and Christians' disposition towards merchants and trade from the religions origins. In the beginning of each religion, Christianity and Islam had very different views on merchants and traders. In the New Testament of the Bible, hatred is shown towards wealth and merchants.
As we know today, there is a historical resemblance in the spread of Christianity to the spread if Islam as they affected places and the people they have conquered within the time of 600 BCE to 732 CE in the areas specifically in the middle east, Europe, some parts of Asia and in some parts of Africa, particularly Egypt. Compared to Islam, Christianity was more aggressive in their conquers within the era. This is because of several methods Christians used such as taxation, and conquests. As well as similarities in the use of missionaries, and other passive methods: including trade and the adaptability to the religion itself. Islam began centuries before Christianity by the Prophet Muhammad.
Colonists were confessing their guilt and sin and then wallowing in the thought of being “saved.” The Great Awakening increased religious diversity and the separation of church and state. Colonists started to believe that if they could make their own religious decisions, they could also make their own political decisions thus adding to democracy in the Americas. Immigrants came to the Americas for gold, God and glory without the realization they were adding to democracy in the colonies. Many immigrants settled in the middle colonies because farms were bigger and trade was better. Immigration also added to the development of slavery, Africans being captured and brought to the Americas by Europeans as either slaves or free labor servants would add to the American colonies fight for a more democratic society.
doJustice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? By Michael J. Sandel Notes by Matt Deaton, Ph.D. www.MattDeaton.com Chapter 1: What’s the Right Thing to Do? Three Case Studies through Three Lenses 1. “Price gouging” after hurricane Charlie a. Welfare: Prevents non-rich from accessing needed goods, but incentivizes suppliers to send more b. Liberty: Diminished purchasing power diminishes reach of freedom of buyers, but allowing “gouging” respects freedom of retails to sell at the price the market dictates c. Virtue: “Gougers” seem to be taking unfair advantage of customers, which seems to be a mark of less than admirable personality traits – greediness, selfishness, a lack of compassion, etc.
This religious schism meant that the Muslims were often much more willing to ally against one another then with each other; for example by 1098 the Crusaders held an alliance with Egypt against the Turks. It also meant that Islam had no counter against the notion of ‘crusade’, a jihad was impossible with such disunity. When we combine their effect in the Crusader states in the future such as in 1187 we find this significant. This disunity was not helped by the power vacuum at the time, 1054 was often described by historians “as the year of deaths of sultans and caliphs”, such was the disunity that in
There was interest in trade and commerce with foreign countries. With the economic problems in the United States people needed the business of foreign countries. Religious interest was involved with imperialism. Christians wanted to spread Christianity, but believed that western culture needed to be spread for Christianity to take hold. “Social, economic, and political forces were drawing them rapidly into the imperial race” (Davidson, DeLay, et al.
He disagrees with parliament stating that the King must ask permission from them to collect money at his own accord, he says they are “utterly mistaken to suppose that the monarch cannot raise taxes from his subjects at his own pleasure”. At this time it was likely that ship money would be a cause for dispute as it was being collected illegally during peace time and from inland countries which was not part of the original guidelines set out by which ship money could be collected. Also during this period, five out of twelve of the Kings own Judges agreed with and backed Hampden in his refusal to pay ship money. This is a useful source as it gives the royalist perspective on the Kings actions but also shows what the people who were against the King’s actions were doing to rebel, all in all agreeing that financial grievances were the main reason for opposition. Although Berkeley was very one sided in his argument, he gives across both perspectives of the time.
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They were also influenced by the fear of Europe flooding American markets with cheap goods after the war. Presidents Harding and Coolidge, granted with authority to reduce or increase duties, were always sympathetic towards the big industries, thus much more prone to increasing tariffs than decreasing them. Congress soon passed the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law, which raised the tariff from 27% to 38.5%. However, this presented a problem for Europe since they needed to sell goods to the U.S. in order to get the money to pay back is debts, and when it could not sell, it could not repay. Later on President Hoover passed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930 which raised duty on non-free goods to nearly 60%.