This is the term in Judaism for the idea that people can live good, moral lives.
What is ethical monotheism?
100
This man was the MOST successful missionary in spreading the teachings of Jesus to the people of Palestine, Asia Minor, Greece and Rome.
What is Paul?
100
This huge mountain range separates China from India.
What are the Himilayas?
100
This religion became the strongest rival of Christianity in the Mediterranean area during the time of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Islam?
100
This is the year of the Hejira.
What is 622 AD or AH1?
200
This caste was the highest in the ancient Indian caste system.
What are priests/Brahmins
200
This body of water provided a pathway between ancient Greece and Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
This was the name the early Chinese used to refer to their country.
What is Middle Kingdom or Chung guo?
200
Name three modern countries that were once a part of the Byzantine Empire.
What are Greece, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Egypt?
200
Please list all of the five pillars.
What are the declaration of faith, almsgiving, prayer, fasting during Ramadan and hajj?
300
This is the ultimate goal for Buddhists.
What is to achieve nirvana?
300
In ancient Greece, this was the title given to a city and the agricultural lands surrounding it
What is "polis"
300
Name three ancient Chinese inventions.
What are block printing, gunpowder, paper?
300
This language became the most important language of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Greek?
300
This is a city in the Middle East that is sacred to Muslims, Jews and Christians.
What is Jerusalem?
400
This is the major text for Confucianism.
What are the Analects?
400
"Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands of the whole people... An Athenian citizen does not put his private affairs before affairs of the state...We alone believe that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is more than harmless. . .hi is useless." This is a quote by this famous Greek orator.
Who is Pericles?
400
During tradtional times, China was ruled by an emperor who inherited his position, usually from a male relative. This is what we call a family of such power in early China.
What is a dynasty?
400
The Byzantine Empire had this kind of government- where there is no separation between church and state.
What is theocracy?
400
The major difference between the Sunis and Shi'ites.
What is the question of succession?
500
These are books written by Brahmins to preserve Aryan traditions.
What are the Vedas?
500
During the last two centuries of the Roman Empire, frquent civil wars broke out, primarily for this reason.
What is controversy over who should be the next emperor?
500
This is the Chinese belief system that says that the smallest infraction should be publisched harshly.
What is legalism?
500
This man tried to reunite the eastern half of the Mediterranean world with the western half.
Who is Justinian?
500
Muhammad's religious conversion, missionary work and death took place in this century.