87540269 | Polytheism | Worshipping more than one diety. | 0 | |
87540270 | Totemism | self and various animals and symbol religion. | 1 | |
87540271 | Shamanism | Unseen spirit worlds (central asia, siberia, americas) | 2 | |
87540272 | Shinto | Japan | 3 | |
87540273 | Animism | Life force worship (africa,pacific island,asia) | 4 | |
87540274 | Zoroastrianism | (monotheisic) founded by ancient Persian by Priest Zordaster - 500 BC based on avestas texts. | 5 | |
87540275 | zoroastrianism god: | Ahura Mazda, Enemy was ahirman (god of darkness - daulism) | 6 | |
87540276 | Judaism | Worlds first first monotheistic faith. | 7 | |
87540277 | Abrahams Covenant | God (jehova) swore to make hewbrews the chosen people and lead them to Israel. | 8 | |
87540278 | Hebrew kingdom | ruled by judges, then king saul, david, psalms solomon | 9 | |
87540279 | Split | israel and judah, conquered assyrians | 10 | |
87540280 | diaspora | jews forced into diaspora into middle of the 20th century | 11 | |
87540281 | jewish principles | talmud-instruction tanakh-strict code of conduct | 12 | |
87540282 | hindu cast stystem origins | aryan invastion, labor to dark skin | 13 | |
87540283 | 5 classes | priests (brahmins) warriors/political rulers (kshatriyans) commoners (vaishyas) servants, serfs, lower class (shudras) and untouchables | 14 | |
87540284 | sati | women required to throw themselves on funeral bed with dead husband to be burned alive | 15 | |
87540285 | only brahman could gain: | moksha | 16 | |
87540286 | buddhism originated | in india around 500bc practiced in china, sri lanka, tibet, korea, | 17 | |
87540287 | 2 schools of doctrine | therevada and mahayana | 18 | |
87540288 | birth of buddhism | sidhartha guatama. born in himalayas. left palace at age 29. became buddha | 19 | |
87540289 | therevada buddhism | "way of elders" south/ se asia. simplicity, meditation, nirvana. gods have little role | 20 | |
87540290 | Mahayana buddhism | absorbed elements of indigenous religions: hello,souls, pantheons. very ritual and symbolic | 21 | |
87540291 | daoism beginning | 500bc. founder is laozi. | 22 | |
87540292 | daoism text | tao-te-ching | 23 | |
87540293 | daoism | natural forces can be sensed, wisdom and happiness. no wordly things like politics, money, material things. | 24 | |
87540294 | daoist ritual | ying yang - nothing is absolute fortune telling | 25 | |
87540295 | daoism is mixed with: | buddhism and confucianism in many cultures. | 26 | |
87540296 | confucianism | lived during zhou dynasty. served as government under prince Lu. | 27 | |
87540297 | analects | recordings of conversations with students | 28 | |
87540298 | Mencius | Took confucianism to its highest level | 29 | |
87540299 | confucianism principles | obey rules, respect elders, famuly unit, good behavior | 30 | |
87540300 | where did jesus preach | judaea | 31 | |
87540301 | aposatle paul | made it easier to convert greeks, middle easterners, and romans | 32 |
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