11409433148 | Polytheism | Belief in many gods | 0 | |
11409502556 | Monotheism | Belief in one God | 1 | |
11409557501 | Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 2 | |
11409566057 | Reincarnation | In Hinduism and Buddhism, the process by which a soul is reborn continuously until it achieves perfect understanding | 3 | |
11409577455 | What religions came from India? | Hinduism and Buddhism | 4 | |
11409592246 | What do Hindus and Buddhist call "enlightenment"? | Hindus= Moksha, get by understanding Brahman Buddhist= Enlightenment, get by Four Nobel Truths and the Eightfold Path | 5 | |
11409755379 | Buddah | "The Enlightened One" founder of Buddhism | 6 | |
11409819344 | Who was Moses and why was he important to the Jewish faith? | a prophet, led the Jews to the Holy Land. Received the Ten Commandments from God; this was the backbone of Jewish values | 7 | |
11410530687 | Why was it so dangerous to be Christian for the first few hundred years after Jesus died? | Roman leaders persecuted Christians; they were used as scapegoats for the economic and political troubles of Rome. Emperors thought that Christian ideas opposed the Roman rule and they didn't believe in Roman gods, eventually Emperor Constantine accepted Christianity. | 8 | |
11410556679 | Who is the Emperor Constantine and what is the Edict of Milan? Why are they both important to Christianity? | ruler of Rome, halted the persecution of Christians, secured the East - leading to the rule of a single ruler, changed the capital from Rome to Constantinople. The Edict of Milan permanently established religious toleration for Christianity in the Roman Empire. | 9 | |
11410574564 | Connection between the holy book of Judaism (The Torah) and the holy book of Christianity (New Testament). | The Torah (Judaism) tells the history of the Jewish people and are revered by Christians, many of the teachings in Judaism are contained in the Old Testament. They relate to the Bible because the Bible is made up of both the Old and New Testament. | 10 | |
11410685474 | What did Angel Gabriel give to the Muslim prophet Muhammad? | the teachings of Islam (later written down in the Koran). | 11 | |
11410692363 | Democracy | when the government is controlled by the people | 12 | |
11410703187 | Republic | A form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws. | 13 | |
11410715186 | Empire | an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority | 14 | |
11410732036 | 5 examples of contributions Greeks gave | democracy government, Colossus of Rhodes, dramas, Olympic Games, philosophy, arts, architecture | 15 | |
11410741608 | Battles that took place during the Persian Wars | Battle of Marathon where Athenians met the Persians at Marathon and defeated them there. The Battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Salamis which the Greeks won. | 16 | |
11411125581 | Hellenistic culture and their achievements? | (Persian, Indian, Greek, Egyptian) was Greek culture that Alexander the Great spread, it blended with cultures of lands that Alexander the Great took over. Achievements: a Great Library, astronomy - discovering the circumference of the Earth,Euclid's geometry, Archimedes' measure of pi, the Great Lighthouse, Colossus of Rhodes, and in philosophy, stoicism | 17 | |
11411136256 | How was the Roman Republic different than the Roman Empire? | Republic was divided into two separate parts and was then united when Julius Caesar became the ruler of the Roman Empire (Augustus was the first emperor), the Empire was all united under one ruler. A difference between the two was that in a Republic most power was held in the Senate, in an Empire the power was held by the ruler. | 18 |
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