Islam
The Quran (Koran)
What is the sacred scripture of Islam?
The name for the Stone Age
What is the Paleolithic period?
All civilizations developed this cultural norm as far as leadership is concerned
What is patriarchy?
A collection of sacred texts composed by anonymous thinkers
What is the Upanishads?
The "real" name of the Buddha
What is Siddhartha Gautama?
The Arabic word for God
What is Allah?
The age that was more egalitarian ("equal") for women
What is the Paleolithic period?
Ziggaruts were features of this civilization
What is Mesopotamia?
the "World Soul"
Who (what?) is Brahman?
The thing the prince who founded Buddhism could not explain
What is human suffering?
According to Muhammed, Jesus was this.
What is a prophet?
What is pastoral?
The inevitable outcome to the earth as civilizations spread across Eurasia
What is degrading the environment?
To a Hindu, the merging of the soul with the the World Soul
What is moksha?
Although Buddhism believed in reincarnation, the Buddha did NOT accept which part of Hinduism?
What is the caste system?
the Islamic community of all believers
What is the umma?
Conflict between herders and farmers often led to this
What is a peaceful sharing of resources?
The earliest civilizations had this geographical feature in common
What is a river?
The universe's reward (or punishment) based on a past life that determined a person's new life
What is karma?
What is the eight-fold path?
The two main branches of Islam
What are Sunni and Shia?
the most important impact of agriculture
What was the development of civilizations?
Civilization run by an elite bureaucracy that got their positions through testing
What is Ancient China?
The reason Hinduism did not spread outside of India
What is Hinduism is not a universalizing religion?
The less strict form of Buddhism that offered greater accessibility to common people
What is Mahayana Buddhism?