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Witches and the W word
and they didn't have much protection, plus they were a very small group. It wouldn't be hard to imagine that if he could blame them, he could actively persecute them and get rid of them, AND get his building projects underway and get away scott-free, killing two birds with one stone. So, of course, the famous Roman Christian Hunts began. And pretty much every culture and religion under the Roman rule followed suit. This means that everyone from the Romans to the Persians to to the Nordic people were pretty much playing "Hunt the Christian." Weather they did it out of fear to the Romans or out of their own free will, it meant nothing to a Christian. They were still trying to kill you, whatever your motives may be.
Now lets fast-forward a couple of centuries. Despite the adversity towards them, the Christians flourish in all of Europe, becoming an official religion and a religious group of significant size and power, so things are starting to look up for them in that front. By now, the Roman empire is pretty much gone, decimated by rebellions and wars. People now begging to ease off with the Christians some what, but conflicts still happen. The Christians have now several centuries of experience of being persecuted and living in constant fear, but now that they have some power, they begin to construct defenses for themselves.
Fast-forward a few decades now. The Christians are now a majority in Europe and is a significant group in the Middle East. Well, Now that they have power, but they still fear that they will be persecuted again. Its not very hard to see why, and its reasonable that they fear it after centuries of it. So far so good right? Well, as is the nature of humans, they try to eliminate any threats to their survivals. Being as primitive and Narrow minded as they were (and admittedly stupid too), they came to the conclusion that, if they eliminated other cultural and religious groups, (continued....)
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Phoenix
Divan-Beghi madrasah, Bukhara , Uzbekistan (part of Lyab-i Hauz complex) In Persian mythology, Simurgh , ( Persian : سيمرغ, Middle
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egypt history
of foreign domination—by the Semitic Hyksos in the 17th and 16th centuries BC, the Assyrians in the 7th century BC, and the Persians in the 6th and 5th
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Roman Britain
of Emperor Claudius, in the middle of 1st century AD. Claudius established Camulodunum as the new capital of the province of Britannia (Britain
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Evil Eye
to pursue protective measures against it. The concept and its significance vary widely among different cultures, primarily the Middle East. The idea
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