Question

11. What is the Eight-Fold Path?: The Buddhist practical guide to end suffering:
12. What is Filial Piety?:Respect, obedience, and duty toward one’s parents and ancestors
13. What is Karma?:the moral law of cause and effect: actions have consequences that affect future lives/rebirths.

14. What are the Four Noble Truths?: (Buddhism) 1) Life involves suffering. 2) Suffering is caused by desire/craving. 3) There is an end to suffering. 4) The way to end suffering is the Eight‑Fold Path.

15. What are the 10 Commandments?: 1) No other gods; 2) No idols; 3) Do not misuse God’s name; 4) Keep the Sabbath holy; 5) Honor your father and mother; 6) Do not murder; 7) Do not commit adultery; 8) Do not steal; 9) Do not bear false witness; 10) Do not covet.
16. What are 5 Pillars of Faith?: Shahada (faith), Salah (prayer), Zakat (almsgiving), Sawm (fasting during Ramadan), Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca).

17. Monotheistic religion from India that believed to be enlightened you needed to meditate and fast and that suffering was due to your desires for material things?:18. Monotheistic religion from India that believed you could make your way to heaven through good deeds and being kind to others. [=
19. Monotheistic religion from China that was based on the idea that the people needed to be educated to have a moral society.
20. Polytheistic religion founded in India in which Brahma was the main God.
21. Who Invented Confucism?
22. Who invented Sikhism?
23. Who invented Buddhism?
24. Who invented Hinduism?
25. Where were Hinduism and Buddhism invented?
26. What is the House of Wisdom and why is it important to the Islamic religion?
27. Which RVC had a caste system?
28. What was Indian culture like during the Gupta Empire?
29. Ashoka was an Indian leader during the Mauryan Empire, which religion did he turn to?
30. This man was buried with a division of Terra Cotta warriors to protect him in the afterlife.
31. Who is the patriarch in the 3 religions from Babylon?
32. What belief do these 3 religions have in common?
33. Where is the holy city of Babylon?
34. What is the Holy Text of Judaism?
35. What is the Holy Text of Hinduism?
36. What is the Holy text of Sikhism?
37. What is the Holy Text of Confucisim?
38. What is the Holy Text of Islam?
39. What is the other term for the state of enlightenment?
40. What is the name of the road that let all of these civilizations share goods through trade?
41. Along this road, Rome, Greece, Persia, India, and China traded, please know where those places are on a map.
42. What is the Neolithic Revolution and how did longer growing seasons help them in this endeavor?
43. Why is Egypt called the “Gift of the Nile?
44. What is Pax Romana?
45. Who is Constantine and why is he so important in the history of Rome?
46. What did Constantine to greatly promote the growth of Christianity?
47. What did Rome contribute to the modern world?
48. What did Rome steal from the Greeks to build a better empire?
49. The Idea of innocent until proven guilty comes from Greece or Rome?
50. Which of these things is still used by our American government?

Answer 1

11. Eight-Fold Path: The practical Buddhist guide to end suffering — right view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration.

12. Filial Piety: Respect, obedience, and duty toward one’s parents and ancestors.

13. Karma: The moral law of cause and effect — actions have consequences that affect future lives/rebirths.

14. Four Noble Truths: 1) Life involves suffering. 2) Suffering is caused by desire/craving. 3) There is an end to suffering. 4) The way to end suffering is the Eight‑Fold Path.

15. Ten Commandments: 1) No other gods; 2) No idols; 3) Do not misuse God’s name; 4) Keep the Sabbath holy; 5) Honor your father and mother; 6) Do not murder; 7) Do not commit adultery; 8) Do not steal; 9) Do not bear false witness; 10) Do not covet.

16. Five Pillars of Islam: Shahada (faith), Salah (prayer), Zakat (almsgiving), Sawm (fasting during Ramadan), Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca).

17. Religion from India that taught meditation, fasting, and that suffering comes from desire: Buddhism (founded by Siddhartha Gautama).

18. Monotheistic religion from India that teaches good deeds and kindness lead to salvation/heaven: Sikhism (founded by Guru Nanak).

19. Chinese tradition that stressed education for a moral society: Confucianism (founded by Confucius).

20. Polytheistic religion from India with Brahma as a principal god: Hinduism.

21. Who founded Confucianism? Confucius (Kong Fuzi).

22. Who founded Sikhism? Guru Nanak.

23. Who founded Buddhism? Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha).

24. Who founded Hinduism? Hinduism has no single founder — it developed over many centuries from diverse beliefs and traditions in India.

25. Where were Hinduism and Buddhism founded? In the Indian subcontinent (South Asia).

26. House of Wisdom: A major intellectual center in Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate where scholars translated, preserved, and advanced knowledge (Greek, Persian, Indian works) — a key institution of the Islamic Golden Age.

27. Which River Valley Civilization had a caste system? Ancient India (the Indo-Gangetic/Indian civilization; caste system associated with Indian society).

28. Indian culture during the Gupta Empire: A “Golden Age” — political stability, economic prosperity, major advances in mathematics (concept of zero, decimal system), astronomy, medicine, literature, art, and Hindu culture flourishing.

29. Ashoka (Mauryan emperor) converted to Buddhism.

30. The man buried with the Terracotta Army: Qin Shi Huang (the First Emperor of Qin).

31. Who is the patriarch in the three Abrahamic religions? Abraham is the patriarch for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

32. What belief do these three religions share? Monotheism — belief in one God.

33. Where is ancient Babylon? In Mesopotamia on the Euphrates River — in the region of modern-day Iraq (near Baghdad/Hillah).

34. Holy text of Judaism: The Torah (part of the Tanakh).

35. Holy texts of Hinduism: The Vedas (primary scriptures); also important texts include the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita.

36. Holy text of Sikhism: Guru Granth Sahib.

37. Key text of Confucianism: The Analects (Lunyu) of Confucius (plus other classical texts).

38. Holy text of Islam: The Qur’an (Koran).

39. Other term for the state of enlightenment: Nirvana (Buddhism); a similar concept in Hinduism is Moksha.

40. Name of the road that allowed long-distance trade among these civilizations: The Silk Road.

41. Locations on a map (general): Rome — Italian peninsula, western Mediterranean; Greece — southeastern Europe (Balkan peninsula); Persia — roughly modern Iran; India — South Asia (Indian subcontinent); China — East Asia.

42. Neolithic Revolution: The transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture and settled villages. Longer growing seasons made crops more reliable, allowed surpluses, population growth, permanent settlements, and labor specialization.

43. Why is Egypt called the “Gift of the Nile”? Because the Nile’s annual floods deposited fertile silt, provided water and transport, and made agriculture (and thus Egyptian civilization) possible in an otherwise desert region.

44. Pax Romana: “Roman Peace” — about 200 years (beginning with Augustus, ~27 BCE–180 CE) of relative peace, stability, and prosperity across the Roman Empire.

45. Who is Constantine and why important? Constantine the Great was a Roman emperor who legalized Christianity (and favored it), moved the capital to Constantinople, and helped shape the Christian Roman Empire.

46. What did Constantine do to promote Christianity? Issued the Edict of Milan (313 CE) legalizing Christianity, supported the Church financially and politically, and convened the Council of Nicaea.

47. Roman contributions to the modern world: Roman law and legal concepts, republican institutions (senate, citizenship), engineering (roads, aqueducts), architecture (arches, domes), Latin language roots (in Romance languages and legal/medical/scientific terms), urban planning.

48. What Rome borrowed from Greece: Greek art, literature, philosophy, religion (gods and myths adapted), architectural styles, and many cultural and intellectual ideas that Rome adapted and expanded.

49. “Innocent until proven guilty” — comes from Roman legal tradition.

50. Which of these things is still used by our American government? Many: ideas from Greece and Rome are used — representative democracy, a senate, written laws and constitutions, checks and balances/separation of powers, citizenship concepts, and the legal principle of “innocent until proven guilty.”