Daoism/Confusianism
Hinduism/Buddhism
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
100
I was the Chinese philosopher who believed that the goal of life should be to act in harmony with nature. I founded Daoism in approximately 500 BCE.
Who is Laozi?
100
This polytheistic religion, indigenous to India, is believed to have originated circa 1500 BCE.
What is Hinduism?
100
This is the name for the promise made between Abraham and God, stating that the Abraham's descendants would be God's chosen people.
What is a covenant?
100
This is the idea that God is composed of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
What is the Holy Trinity?
100
The word "Islam" translates to mean this.
What is submit or surrender to God?
200
In Confucianism the respect a son must show toward his father is known as this.
What is filial piety?
200
After achieving enlightenment, I became the Buddha (meaning the "Enlightened One") and founded the religion of Buddhism.
Who was Siddharta Gautama?
200
While traveling from Egypt to Canaan, the Promised Land, Moses received these laws from God.
What are the 10 Commandments?
200
This holiday, the most important one in the Christian calendar, celebrates Jesus's resurrection, symbolizing the victory of life over death.
What is Easter?
200
This is a term, used in many different religions, for when a division occurs, resulting in two branches within the religion.
What is a schism?
300
This concept, which represents the balance of opposing forces, is associated with both Daoism and Confucianism.
What is yin and yang?
300
This is the rigid Hindu system of hereditary social hierarchy.
What is the caste system?
300
The Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, during the reign of this king and queen.
Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?
300
This is a term, in many religions, for a person who dies for his/her faith.
What is a martyr?
300
This person calls the faithful to prayer five times daily.
What is the muezzin?
400
Many Chinese Dynasties, such as the Han, Sui, and Tang, used Confucian scholars to run the government. Officials needed to pass a civil service exam to qualify, creating a system called this.
What is a meritocracy?
400
In Hinduism, this is the idea that you must fulfill your individual duty by performing the role to which you have been assigned in life.
What is dharma?
400
This sacred text, the first five books of the Bible, tells Jews their history and how they should live their lives.
What is the Torah? (The entire Old Testament is also known as the Tanach.)
400
In response to a request for help from the Byzantine Emperor, this Pope called for the First Crusade in 1195.
Who was Pope Urban II?
400
This is the term for the destruction of idols, such as when Muhammad destroyed the pre-Islamic idols in the Ka'aba after he conquered Mecca.
What is iconoclasm?
500
The teachings of Confucius were recorded in this book.
What is The Analects?
500
In Buddhism, these "four noble truths" are the essence of the Buddha's teachings.
What are: 1) All life is suffering; 2) The cause of suffering is desire; 3) To end suffering, you must end desire; 4) To end desire, you must follow the Eightfold Path.
500
This first occurred after the Babylonian Exile, which forced the Jews to leave their homeland in Judea and relocate in smaller communities around the world.
What is the Jewish Diaspora?
500
During the Middle Ages, the Pope could use this to punish an entire country by refusing to perform sacraments, such as Holy Communion or Christian burial.
What was an interdict?
500
The body of Islamic law known as Shari'ah is based on these two foundational Islamic documents.
What are the Qur'an and the Sunnah?
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