<span>Crops can not grow well on rocks and without water. Farming in both North and South Korea is traditionally on the lowlands and focused on rice production which requires large amounts of water. Also the soil is not rich and must be fertilized every year making farming labor intensive. For years they used human waste as fertilizer but this proved damaging to health and limited exports. </span>
The Sioux agreed to settle within a reservation in Black Hills of the Dakota territory in exchange for peace.
The Zealots were originally a political movement in the 1st century. Judaism of the Judaism Province was to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by forced arms.
A phobia, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is an exaggerated, usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation. It may be hard for the afflicted to sufficiently determine or communicate the source of this fear, but it exists. In recent years, a specific phobia has gripped Western societies - Islamophobia.
Researchers and policy groups define Islamophobia in differing detail, but the term's essence is essentially the same, no matter the source:
An exaggerated fear, hatred, and hostility toward Islam and Muslims that is perpetuated by negative stereotypes resulting in bias, discrimination, and the marginalization and exclusion of Muslims from social, political, and civic life.[1]
Islamophobia existed in premise before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but it increased in frequency and notoriety during the past decade. The Runnymede Trust in the U.K., for example, identified eight components of Islamophobia in a 1997 report, and then produced a follow-up report in 2004 after 9/11 and the initial years of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The second report found the aftermath of the terrorist attacks had made life more difficult for British Muslims.