Geography
The story of Abraham’s Calling begins in the ______ East
Middle
What was Abram’s name changed to?
Abraham
True or False? The people of the Indus River Valley had a highly modernized civilization.
TRUE! Like the Suerians and Egyptians, the people of the Indus River Valley had a highly modernized civilization! They had wide, straight streets, houses were well built, and they even had indoor plumbing!
Who uses the most unusual people to fulfill His will and plan? (The very young, the very old, the weak….)
God! He loves to use people that no one would ever expect greatness. They just had to be willing to believe and tust God!
What is a class of people called?
caste
What city did Abram leave when God called him?
Ur (in the land of Sumer)
What was Sarai’s name changed to?
Sarah
What were the different classes of people called in India?
castes -
There were four distinct castes of people in India.
Who was a prince that did not like the caste system and protested it by spending his life trying to ease the suffering of theose less fortunate than he was?
(Gautama) Buddha
Did people in castes interact with people in different castes?
No.
The Indus River Valley Civilization was situated near a major river, the River _______
Indus
Abraham was a descendent of Noah’s son, _____ .
Shem
Buddhism was a religion started by an Indian prince named Gautama ________ .
Buddha
Buddha taught people to _________ .
be kind to each other
What does “barren” mean?
Unable to have children
God told Abraham that the land he saw around him would be his inheritance and that of his descendents…. What was this land called?
Canaan
The Indus River Valley civilization was located in modern-day _________ and Pakistan.
India
What kind of jobs did the top castes of people in India hold?
top = priests and highly educated people
next down = rulers and warriors
3rd down = farmers and merchants
Lowest = workers who did the menial jobs and hard labor
People thought that Buddha was so good they started to _______________ .
Worship him as a god.
Why did people in ancient times look down upon people that were barren?
They incorrectly thought that you must have done something wrong to deserve that consequence. (Many women who could not have children were mocked and scorned by other women.)
Why was it important that the Indus River Valley civilization was on a merchant superhighway?
This location gave them access to other civilizations and let people from the Indus River Valley civilization travel far from home.
Today, the country of _____ is only one-third the size of the USA, but it has more than three times the number of inhabitants.
INDIA
Abraham and Sarah didn’t have any children when they first left their homeland. Why was this a big deal?
- Barren people were looked down upon in ancient times, people thought you must have done something wrong
- God told Abraham that He would make Abraham a great nation - even though they didn’t have any children at the time and they were both very old
How is Buddhism different from what the Bible teaches us?
Buddhists worship the man Buddha as a god.
The Bible teaches us that there is only one true God and He instructed us to worship no other god.
Abraham and his family are often called the Patriarchs. What does “Patriarch” mean?
Male head of a family or tribe, founding father of Jewish people