Islam forbids evil and tyranny, prohibits intoxicants and games of chance, adultery and indecencies, and blood and flesh of swine and dead animals. ... Islam gave women equal rights and greater opportunity then they ever had before. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

And according to Foner, 'Far more important than individual anatomy were kinship ties, the ability to live up to widely understood ideas of appropriate behavior. ' Mary Rowlandson, as a captive and slavery, was able to maintain her basic human rights like chastity because the Indian society requires its members to have appropriate behavior. ... 'Spiritual power, they believe, suffused the world, and sacred spirits could be found in all kinds of living and inanimate things- animals, plants, trees, water and wind- and idea known as "animism" '. ...

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