Buddism
Buddism spread quickly and was liked by the people because of this.
What is It did not spread people into castes?
Prophets of the this new religion were called Jains, which means this.
What is conquerors?
Christina faith not come to India for over 500 years after the death of this person.
Who is Buddha?
The Aryan people’s religion was based on the worship of this
What is Nature Gods?
A new teaching was found in a series of poems called Upanishads means this.
What is meditation?
This means "enlightened one".
What is Buddah?
This Jainism leader renounced his life of power and wealth due to the sorrows of human life, and was called the Mahavira, which means Great Hero.
Who is Vardhamana?
The message of forgiveness of sins and redemption through Christs death showed people were not doomed by this.
What is reincarnation?
The chief god of the Aryan's was this war god.
Who is Indra?
Upanishads said people should trust religious insight over education, counsel those that want to escape to the wilderness, and we should practice self-denial over this.
What is earthly pleasures?
This person created Buddhism as a new spiritual enlightenment, and later became known as Buddha.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
Mahavira taught that all things have souls including plants, animals, insects, and believed these things have been reincarnated many times.
The only way to escape reincarnation and suffering is to refuse to do this.
What is destroy any living thing?
People liked that they were promised this in the vision of God.
What is eternal life?
Aryan religion contained a pantheon of gods and heroic stories emulating the Greek Pantheon. Three of these European gods were brothers, Brahman, Indra, and Varuna.
Which three Greek gods were these brothers were supposed to be like?
Who are Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus
Parvati, Kali, or Durga was the most important god of the Hindu religion. She was the wife of this god.
Who is Shiva?
Buddha did not abandon the gods of Hinduism but said these had no purpose.
What are rituals?
These people were only to walk in the daytime, carry a broom to sweep bugs from your path, wear veils to avoid inhaling bugs, refuse to eat meat, an walked around naked because clothes were made from animal skin.
Who are the first followers of Mahavira?
This apostle was the first to bring the Gospel to India.
Who is Thomas?
Brahmin priests worshiped this god of enlightenment.
Who is Brahman?
The Upanishads introduced the gods of Dravidian into the Aryan Pantheon. Brahmin was the creator of the universe. These two gods were with him.
Shiva- the destroyer of creation
Vishnu- preserver of the universe
Buddhism was the major rival to this religion.
What is Hinduism?
Jainists became an important part of this class
What is the Merchant class?
A group of Indian Christians, bishops, and the sacraments were first noticed in a church called this.
What is Mar Thoma Church?
This is how Brahmin priests become the highest caste in India.
What is Citizens began to honor the priests because they knew the complex rituals for controlling the gods?
The Upanishad believed the following: Souls do not go to heaven or hell forever, They are reborn as another creature, How one lives their life now determines what creature they will be in the future.
This is called what?
What is Reincarnation?
This group of people were the main ones following Jainism, and most refused to be warriors in any war and turned to trade.
Who are monks?
In the 1600s these people, including St. Xavier, established the first Catholic Church in the colonial India.
Who are Portuguese traders and missionaries?
The religion of the Brahmins is called this.
What is Hinduism?
Upanishad developed the idea that Gods are just different faces of this.
What is the universal spirit?
In the 1800s, the English brought this religion to India.
What is Protestantism?
To escape the control of the Brahmins, these men went to the wilderness where they practiced fasts and acts of self-denial, meditated and put themselves in trances, and blessed those that were kind to them.
Who are Hermits?