Japanese
the people who believed in Shintoism can best be classified as—
nomadic, polytheistic, monotheistic, democratic
polythestic
Buddhism spread along both land and sea routes. T or F
True
Monotheistic means
Belief in one God
because Jerusalem is a holy site for Christians, Jews, and Muslims—
all three religious groups have engaged in ____________ over control of the city
Conflicts/fighting
The religious beliefs of people living in Ancient Japan—
were influenced by the ______________environment
natural
Where did Buddhism originate?
India
According to this....Muhammad eventually persuaded most of the people of Arabia (including Mecca) to practice Islam. But after his death in 632, Muslims disagreed as to who should lead them. Muhammad’s son-in-law Ali became the Muslim leader, or caliph, in 656. But he was murdered in 661. Some Muslims maintained that Muslim leadership belonged to Ali’s descendants alone. They formed the Shi’ite branch of Islam. The Muslims who disputed this claim became the Sunnis.
True or false: Many major religions often break into different sects as a result of conflicts.
True
Christianity and Islam originate in the ______________ East
Middle East
"Buddhism first developed in India and then slowly spread throughout__________
Europe
Jewish people worship in holy places known as ____?____. The six-pointed Star of David is the symbol of Judaism.
Synagogues
Read this: In the 11th century, the Turks began their rise as an Islamic power. The Seljuk Turks conquered vast territories in the Middle East. In 1071, they captured Jerusalem. The Seljuks refused to allow Christians to visit holy sites in the land they controlled. Over the next two centuries, Muslim powers fought off Christian attempts to win back the Holy Land in a series of wars known as the Crusades. In the 1200s, another group of Muslim Turks, the Ottomans, began an empire. The Ottomans eventually ruled over North Africa, the Middle East, and southeastern Europe for hundreds of years.
What area does it tell you most Muslims live?
North Africa
Followers believe that Jesus is the son of God. Name the religion
Christianity
Japanese people adopted different elements of both Buddhism and ___________________as part of their beliefs.
Shintoism
What area did Judaism start?
modern-day Israel.
Comparing Christianty and Islam, are they both montheisitic or polytheistic?
Monotheistic
What is the most practiced religion in the world?
Christianity
Buddhism had produced many more texts than Shinto and followed a strict moral code. Unlike Shinto, it provided detailed answers to questions about death, reincarnation and punishment for wrongdoing.
This statement talks about how Buddhism influenced _____________thought
Japanese
Judaism is an __________________ religion of the Jews. That means it is a religion that is closely tied to a specific ethnicity, culture, and/or geographic location.
ethnic