Category 1: World Regions and Geography
This is the largest continent and the birthplace of several religions studied in this unit.
What is Asia?
An organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, practices, and rules.
What is religion?
This religion’s sacred text is the Torah, which includes the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
What is Judaism?
This religion developed over many centuries in the Indian subcontinent and has no single founder.
What is Hinduism?
This Chinese teacher and philosopher emphasized education, responsibility, respect, and social harmony.
Who is Confucius?
This imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
The belief in only one god is monotheism. What is the belief in multiple gods?
What is polytheism?
This central figure of Christianity is believed by Christians to be the Messiah and Son of God.
Who is Jesus?
These are the ancient sacred texts that form the foundation of Hindu thought.
What are the Vedas?
This Confucian value means respect and care for one’s parents and elders.
What is filial piety?
This imaginary line passes through Greenwich, England, and divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A tradition that can be practiced beyond the place where it originally began.
What is a universal/portable religion or tradition?
This prophet is considered by Muslims to be the final and greatest prophet.
Who is Muhammad?
This founder of Buddhism was originally named Siddhartha Gautama.
Who is the Buddah?
This collection of Confucius’s teachings was compiled by his students and disciples.
What are the Analects?
This peninsula connects the Middle East to Asia and includes modern-day Saudi Arabia and nearby countries.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
What do you call a religion that a government makes the main or only legal religion of an entire country?
What is a state religion?
The Five Pillars—including prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage—belong to this religion.
What is Islam?
The Four Noble Truths explain suffering, while this teaching provides a path for overcoming it.
What is the Eightfold Path?
Religious institutions could provide this kind of assistance to people in need, such as food, shelter, or education.
What is charity and social support?
This region includes Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.
What is Latin America?
This term refers to “correct practice,” while orthodoxy refers to “correct belief.”
What is orthopraxy?
These three Middle Eastern religions share a belief in one God and influenced one another historically.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
In Hinduism, this cycle of birth, death, and rebirth is connected to karma and can ultimately be escaped through moksha.
What is reincarnation?
What are some areas of world history that have been impacted by religions?
What are:
Politics - government, laws, wars, countries' borders/geography
Society & Culture