Hinduism
This rigid social hierarchy determined by your birth dictated your profession and social status.
What is the caste system?
The 4 central beliefs and Buddhist teachings that address the nature of life and the path to liberation from universal suffering.
What are the 4 Noble Truths?
The 5 main duties that every Muslim must fulfill, which consist of the declaration of faith, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage.
What are the 5 Pillars?
The specific group of people in Confucian societies that were looked down upon and located at the bottom of the social hierarchy due to their lack of honesty and hard labor in money-making.
Who are merchants?
The Abrahamic religion that was established first over 3,500 years ago in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
What is Judaism?
The Hindu belief in the concept of birth, death, and rebirth.
The framework for personal and spiritual development in Buddhism which eventually leads to the end and liberation from this suffering and individual enlightenment.
What is the Eight-fold Path?
A tax regulated in many Muslim empires of the past that all non-Muslims living in their borders must pay as an alternative to not serving in the military.
What is the jizya tax?
The key and important concept of having extreme respect and being extremely obedient to one's ancestors and parents in Confucian societies.
What is filial piety?
The event that refers to the event when the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church officially split into the two main branches of Christianity.
What is the Great Schism?
The group of people historically subjected to extreme social discrimination and considered ritually impure and unclean.
Who are the untouchables?
Another religion that shares similarities with Buddhism within the concepts of karma and reincarnation and each religion's understanding of the world and meaning of existence.
What is Hinduism?
This person was a merchant by trade and is credited to being the first person to spread the religion of Islam in the Arabian peninsula.
Who is Muhammad?
The historical practice in Confucian societies where women would keep their feet small and tight as a result of patriarchal beliefs.
What is foot-binding?
A group of religious texts that are all revered in the three Abrahamic faiths, but extremely central to Christianity.
What is the Bible?
The historical Hindu practice where a widow would voluntarily burn herself after the death of her husband.
What is sati?
The number of main branches that Buddhism is divided into where each branch represents a different path to enlightenment.
What is 3?
The central and sacred religious book of Islam, believed by all Muslims to be direct revelation from God.
What is the Quran?
The Confucian belief about relationships where fathers were above their sons, husbands were above their wives, rulers were above their subjects, etc.
What are unequal relationships?
Daoism believes in having a deep spiritual connection and reverence for this as it is the underlying principle of the universe and is also what humans should strive to live in harmony with.
What is nature?
The consequences of one's actions, both good and bad, that determine one's future status and profession in society.
What is karma?
One of the oldest and most conservative of the branches of Buddhism, mainly existing in Southeast Asia with an emphasis on individual enlightenment through strict discipline.
What is Theravada Buddhism?
A specific sect and group of Muslims that related well with other religions like Hinduism and through these similarities were able to convert many people from other religions.
What are Sufis/Sufism?
The merit-based exam system used in Chinese dynasties to grade students based on their knowledge of Confucian beliefs and values and their position in the bureaucracy would be reflected using this metric.
What is the Civil Service Exam?
The Daoist action of living in harmony with the rest of the universe and "going with the flow" or natural order of things.
What is the principle of "Wu Wei" or doing less/inaction?