In africa, how might the belief in one god and in spirits resembling angels reflect the process of religious syncretism from the 1700s?

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In Africa, the belief in one god and in spirits resembling angels reflected the process of religious syncretism from the 1700s in that the African tribes intermingled their religious traditions, dances, chants, and beliefs, with the teachings of new Christian religions, to form a new way to live their spiritual system and express their beliefs.

The term syncretism applied to religion means that another religious belief system is mixed into an original spiritual system. The combination of both -ore more beliefs, in some cases- creates a new way to express religion in a tribe or community.  

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n:

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