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Religion and Belief Systems
Geographical Features
Early Civilizations
Buddhism and Hinduism
Islam, Judaism and Christianity
100
What is the belief in a god or gods
What is religion
100
What is a crescent-shaped area of fertile land in the Middle East that extends from the eastern Mediterranean coast through the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the Persian Gulf
What is the Fertile Crescent
100
What is a form of writing that Ancient Egyptians used
What is hyrogyliphics
100
What is Indian religious leader: founder of Buddhism.
What is Siddhartha Gautama
100
What is the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures
What is the Torah
200
What is a set of beliefs, especially religious or political beliefs, that form a unified system
What is a belief system
200
What is an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°
What is the equator
200
What is a ruler in ancient Egypt
What is a pharoah
200
What is a series of teachers in Buddhism, of whom Gautama was the last, who bring enlightenment and wisdom
What is Buddha
200
What is the Christian scriptures, consisting of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments
What is the Bible
300
What is a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century bc
What is Zoroastrianism
300
What is the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator
What is latitude
300
What is an ancient region in southwestern Asia, in present-day Iraq, comprising the southern part of Mesopotamia
What is Sumer
300
What is a system of social stratification in India, deriving from the Aryan hereditary division of the population into priests (Brahmins), warriors and rulers (Kshatriya), farmers and merchants (Vaisya), and laborers, artisans, and domestic servants (Sudra).
What is the caste system
300
What is the sacred text of Islam, considered by Muslims to contain the revelations of God to Muhammad
What is the Qur'an
400
What is the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
What is Monotheism
400
What is the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object
What is longitude
400
What is the cultural period of the Stone Age beginning with the earliest chipped stone tools, about 2.4 million years ago, until the beginning of the Mesolithic Period, about 15,000 to 11,500 years ago in western Asia and southern Europe
What is the Paleolithic Era
400
What is one's own or its own needs without external assistance
What is self-sufficiency
400
What is the building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction
What is a synagauge
500
What is the belief in or worship of more than one god
What is Polytheism
500
What is a planet's meridian adopted as the zero of longitude
What is the Prime Meridian
500
What is a river in E Africa, the longest in the world, flowing north from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean
What is the Nile River
500
What is the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences
What is karma
500
What is a building used for public Christian worship
What is a Church