6953425174 | animism | The belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects and phenomena | 0 | |
6953425175 | Monotheism | the belief in one God or diety | 1 | |
6953425176 | Abraham | Founder of Judaism and the practice of monotheism | 2 | |
6953425177 | Zoroastrianism | Religion created by Zoroaster, focuses on the eternal battle between two forces, one good and one evil | 3 | |
6953425178 | Zoroaster | The teacher that inspired the religion of Zoroastrianism | 4 | |
6953425179 | Vedic | South Asian religion including a variety of deities and a heavy emphasis on rituals | 5 | |
6953425180 | Theocracy | Government structure ruled by religious authority | 6 | |
6953425181 | Polytheism | belief in many gods or deities | 7 | |
6953425182 | Ziggurats | Large stepped pyramids of the Sumerians for religious purpose | 8 | |
6953425183 | Judaism | Founded by Abraham, believe in one God and the prophet Moses, follow the Ten Commandments | 9 | |
6953425184 | Jews | Followers of Judaism | 10 | |
6953425185 | Jewish Diaspora | The spreading of Jews throughout the Middle East and the Mediterranean | 11 | |
6953425186 | Ten Commandments | Ten Religious Laws of God | ![]() | 12 |
6953425187 | Religious Tolerance | The practice of conquering land yet allowing religions to remain and continue their practice | 13 | |
6953425188 | Ra | Egyptian god of the Sun | 14 | |
6953425189 | Osirus | Egyptian god of life and death and husband of Isis | 15 | |
6953425190 | Isis | Egyptian god of nature and wife of Osirus | 16 | |
6953425191 | Mummificiation | Burial process commonly practiced in Egypt involving the removal of internal organs, drying the body with salts, and packing its insides and wrapping it with chemically treated cloth | 17 | |
6953425192 | Pharaoh | Egyptian ruler who was believed to be descendants of the gods | 18 | |
6953425193 | Theocrats | rulers holding both religious and political power | 19 | |
6953425194 | Pyramids of Egypts | Giant tombs for pharaohs where their body and prized items were preserved for their afterlife | 20 | |
6953425195 | The Vedas | Aryan collection of religious hymns, poems, and songs | 21 | |
6953425196 | Upanishads | a collection of religious thought that illuminated several new religious concepts: brahma, dharma, karma, and moksha | 22 | |
6953425197 | Brahma | the universal soul that connects all creatures on earth | 23 | |
6953425198 | Dharma | righteous duties and deeds that determine one's karma | 24 | |
6953425199 | Karma | the force that determines one's place in the future | 25 | |
6953425200 | Moksha | eternal piece and unity with Brahma, the soul's ultimate goal | 26 | |
6953425201 | Hinduism | Indian polytheistic religion based upon the upanishads | 27 | |
6953425202 | Ancestral Veneration | Chinese practice of giving offerings to their ancestors to win their favor due to the belief they could speaks to the gods | 28 | |
6953425203 | Oracle Bones | Chinese practice of sticking heated pins into animal bones with questions and the interpretation of how the bones cracked was the answer | 29 | |
6953425204 | Mandate of Heaven | Zhou Dynasty concept of a ruler's power being justified by the gods | 30 | |
6953425205 | Syncretism | combing of two religions, cultures, and ideologies | 31 | |
6953425206 | Roman Pantheon Of Gods | Roman Gods such as Jupiter, Minerva, Vesta, and Neptune | 32 | |
6953425207 | Christianity | Monotheistic religion that believes in God and his son Jesus Christ, who is the founder of the religion | 33 | |
6953425208 | Jesus Christ | Founder of Christianity and the Son of God | 34 | |
6953425209 | Peter | One of Jesus' disciples who was very important to the spread of Christianity | 35 | |
6953425210 | Paul | A Jew who converted to Christianity and spread the religion through the Mediterranean | 36 | |
6953425211 | Monasteries | buildings or collections of buildings dedicated to the people who devote their lives to the practice of a religion | 37 | |
6953425212 | Constantine | Roman emperor who made Christianity legal in the Roman empire | 38 | |
6953425213 | Martyrdom | A willingness to die rather than give up one's beliefs | 39 | |
6953425214 | Gospels | Christian documents describing the life of Jesus Christ according to Matthew, John, Luke, and John | 40 | |
6953425215 | Caste System | social hierarchy connected to Hinduism. there are four main castes Brahmins: Priestly and educated class Kshatriyas: Warrior and ruling class Vaishyas: Merchant and Artisan class Shudras: Peasant and serf class | 41 | |
6953425216 | Jainism | Religion believing every living thing had a godly soul, strict vegetarianism, and practiced nonviolence | 42 | |
6953425217 | Buddhism | Religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama founded on the four noble truths and the eight fold path | 43 | |
6953425218 | Nirvana | Final destination of the enlightened in Buddhism | 44 | |
6953425219 | Confucianism | Founded by K'ung Fu-tzu, believes in the concept of filial piety and the five key relationships | 45 | |
6953425220 | Daoism | Founded by Laozi and the followers seek to renounce worldly ambitions and society to seek harmony with nature | 46 | |
6953425221 | Mahavir Jain | Founder of Jainism | 47 | |
6953425222 | Siddhartha Gautama | Founder of Buddhism | 48 | |
6953425223 | K'ung Fu-tzu | Founder of Buddhism | 49 | |
6953425224 | Laozi | Founder of Daoism | 50 | |
6953425225 | Hagia Sophia | Large domed Christian church of the Byzantine Empire | 51 | |
6953425226 | Justinian | Byzantine Emperor who oversaw the creation of the Hagia Sophia | 52 | |
6953425227 | Missionaries | People sent abroad to spread a religion and ideology | 53 | |
6953425228 | Christian Schism | Split of the Christian church in 1054 between the Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox | 54 | |
6953425229 | Cyril | Most famous and successful Christian missionary who also created his own alphabet | 55 | |
6953425230 | Patriarch | Emperor appointed head of church | 56 | |
6953425231 | Polygyny | Practice of a man having more than one wife | 57 | |
6953425232 | Muhammed | Founder of Islam | 58 | |
6953425233 | Islam | Monotheistic religion that believes in God and the teachings of Muhammed | 59 | |
6953425234 | Mecca | Holy city of Islam | 60 | |
6953425235 | Five Pillars of Faith | Core beliefs of Islam including praying five times a day, almsgiving, holy pilgrimage, believing in one God, and fasting for Ramadan | 61 | |
6953425236 | Jihad | Principle of Islam which is the struggle or strive in the way of Allah and to improve one's self or society | 62 | |
6953425237 | Shariah | Muslim code of law | 63 | |
6953425238 | Caliph | Islamic head of state | 64 | |
6953425239 | Dar Al-Islam | House of Islam | 65 | |
6953425240 | Sultan | A ruler of a Muslim country, especially of the former Ottoman Empire | 66 | |
6953425241 | Proselytizing Religion | Religion actively seeking converts | 67 | |
6953425242 | Angkor Wat | Giant Buddhist Temple in Southeast Asia | 68 | |
6953425243 | Ka'aba | Giant shrine of Islam | 69 | |
6953425244 | Pope | Supreme Christian bishop of Rome | 70 | |
6953425245 | Bishop | Christian leaders who owed allegiance to the Pope | 71 | |
6953425246 | Priest | Local Christian leaders under a bishop | 72 | |
6953425247 | House of Lords | English parliament house of nobles and Church hierarchy | 73 | |
6953425248 | Reconquista | Christian reconquest of Spain from the Muslims | 74 | |
6953425249 | Crusades | Christians sent to reclaim the Holy Land | 75 | |
6953425250 | Knights Templar | Christian religious order combining the functions of knights and monks | 76 | |
6953425251 | Huitzilopochtli | Aztec god of the sun and war | 77 | |
6953425252 | Tlaloc | Aztec rain god | 78 | |
6953425253 | Quetzalcoatl | Aztec god of wind and knowledge | 79 | |
6953425254 | Xipe Totec | Aztec god of of agriculture and fertility | 80 | |
6953425255 | Human Sacrifice | practice of killing people as offerings to the gods | 81 | |
6953425256 | Inti | Inca sun god | 82 | |
6953425257 | Royal Ancestral Veneration | Belief of dead rulers being mummified and continued to rule as they had in life and were thought to retain ownership of their servants, possessions, and property | 83 | |
6953425258 | Lutheranism | Denomination of Christianity founded by Martin Luther | 84 | |
6953425259 | Martin Luther | Founder of the Lutheran Church | 85 | |
6953425260 | Angelicanism | Church of Henry VIII that was made to annul his marriages and was free of the Pope's control | 86 | |
6953425261 | Jesuits | The Society of Jesus, religious order in 1540 that undertook missionary activity | 87 | |
6953425262 | Thirty Years War | Religious war between Catholics and Protestants from 1618-1648 | 88 | |
6953425263 | 95 Theses | Martin Luther's charges to the church | 89 | |
6953425264 | Virgin of Guadalupe | Mexican deity revered for her ability to perform miracles | 90 | |
6953425265 | Vodun | Haitian syncretic religion combining Christianity and West African traditions | 91 | |
6953425266 | Holy Synod | Peter the Great's religious power composed of clergymen overseen by a secular office who answered to the czar | 92 | |
6953425267 | Ottoman Empire | Islamic empire in the Middle East from the 1300s to 1918 | 93 | |
6953425268 | Devshirme | Islamic tax of taking Christian boys, forcing them to convert to Islam and serving the empire | 94 | |
6953425269 | Jizya | Muslim tax for non-muslims in Islamic territory | 95 | |
6953425270 | Deism | belief that God created the world and then sat back to observe its movements according to natural laws that could be discovered by scientific inquiry | 96 | |
6953425271 | Zionism | the desire of Jews to reestablish an independent homeland where their ancestors lived in the Middle East | 97 | |
6953425272 | Janissaries | a highly organized elite military unit of the Ottoman empire | 98 | |
6953425273 | Shintoism | A religion native to Japan, characterized by veneration of nature spirits and ancestors and by a lack of formal dogma | 99 |
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