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POST3: Religious Belief of the Tongans

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                                                                                        TONGANS                  The kingdom of Tonga is located in the south pacific ocean. The word Tonga means south in many Polynesian countries. The average temperature in Tonga in June-July is 16-21 and it is 27 in December-January. The Tonga language is derived from a proto Fijian Polynesia language originally spoken by Fiji islanders 1500BC. Tongans in the island are extremely dependent on relatives living oversees who send money back to family members. Tonga from relatives living abroad amounted to 10 times the amount of the income the kingdom generated from export of agricultural product such as copra, vanilla, and bananas. Tongans were e...

POST2 Religious Belief in Yoruba Culture

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                                                     Religious Belief in Yoruba Culture          The Yoruba people reside in  Nigeria, West Africa.   The name Yoruba appears to have been applied by neighbors to the kingdom of Oyo and adopted by missionaries in the mid nineteenth century to describe a wider language sharing family of people. For many Yoruba, urbanism was a way of life. Europeans learned of one of the cities in Yoruba land-Ijebu Ode-in the sixteenth century, when they exchanged brass bracelets for slaves and ivory.             The precolonial economy were primarily based on agriculture and trade, although fishing, hunting, and craft were significant. As recently as 1950, two third of the men were farmers Yoruba women seldomly farm, although  they may assist with harvesti...