With reference to two societies, compare and contrast the treatment of religious minorities.

Candidates will give an account of the similarities and differences in the way that two societies treated religious minorities, referring to both societies throughout the response. Candidates may focus on a range of religious minority groups, a group specific to each of the chosen societies or even one religious minority that was common to both societies. While the focus of the response must be within the timeframe of this topic, the two societies do not need to be contemporaneous with each other. Further, those two societies may or may not be drawn from separate regions. Treatment of minorities may be positive, negative or a combination of both positive and negative features.