Belief System and Ethics
This is an organized set of ideas, values, and rules that helps people understand the world and how to behave.
What is a belief system?
Where did Buddhism develop?
Where is South Asia?
This South Asian country is where Hinduism mainly developed.
What is India?
This city on the Arabian Peninsula is where Islam began.
What is Mecca?
This sacred text contains stories, laws, and teachings important to Jewish tradition.
What is the Torah?
These are unwritten rules that help people decide what is right and wrong.
What are ethics?
This man questioned whether wealth and comfort could truly make people happy.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama aka Buddha?
Hinduism developed gradually over thousands of years and does not have this.
What is a founder?
Muslims believe in one God, who is called this in Arabic.
Who is Allah?
This person is the central figure of Christianity.
Who is Jesus Christ?
When a student returns a lost phone because they believe keeping it would be wrong, this concept is guiding their decision.
What are ethics?
This is what Siddhartha Gautama wanted to understand.
What is why people suffer?
This concept means that actions have consequences.
What is karma?
This prophet and messenger of Allah is an important figure in Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
This ancient region is where Judaism developed.
What is Canaan?
A student refuses to cheat because they believe honesty is important. This concept is guiding their decision.
What are personal values?
According to the Four Noble Truths, this is one cause of suffering.
What are craving and attachment?
This concept describes the soul being reborn into another life.
What is reincarnation?
This is the holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur’an?
Missionaries, trade routes, and this system helped Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire.
What is the Roman road system?
A student finds a lost phone. There is no law requiring the student to turn it in, but the student believes keeping something that belongs to someone else is wrong and decides to return it. Which concept is MOST directly guiding the student’s decision, and how is it different from a personal value?
What are Ethics? Ethics help a person decide what is right and wrong, while a personal value is something an individual believes is important, such as honesty.
The Four Noble Truths explain suffering, while this provides the path for reducing suffering and reaching Nirvana.
What is the Noble Eightfold Path?
A person wants to fulfill their responsibilities as a student, family member, and member of their community. This Hindu concept best connects to their actions.
What is dharma?
This city is important to Muslims because it is where Islam began and where Muslims face when praying.
What is Mecca?
Christianity spread beyond its original region into Europe, Africa, Asia, and eventually other parts of the world. What major empire played an important role in its early spread?
What is the Roman Empire?