Question

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

17. Buddhism (originated in India — teaches that suffering is caused by desire; enlightenment reached through meditation, ascetic practices).
18. Sikhism (monotheistic, from India — emphasizes good deeds, honest living, service).
19. Confucianism (Chinese philosophy stressing education and moral conduct for a stable society).
20. Hinduism (polytheistic religion from India; Brahma is one of the principal gods).
21. Confucius (Kong Fuzi).
22. Guru Nanak.
23. Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha).
24. Hinduism has no single founder — it developed over many centuries from Vedic and indigenous beliefs.
25. In the Indian subcontinent (ancient India).
26. The House of Wisdom (Bayt al‑Hikma) was a major learning and translation center in Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate. It preserved and advanced science, medicine, philosophy and helped spread knowledge throughout the Islamic world (key to the Islamic Golden Age).
27. The Indian River Valley (ancient India / Vedic society — later Indian social structure developed into the caste system).
28. The Gupta Empire was a “Golden Age”: relative peace and prosperity, advances in math (concept of zero), astronomy, literature (Kalidasa), art, architecture, and flourishing Hindu culture and learning.
29. Buddhism (Ashoka converted to and promoted Buddhism).
30. Qin Shi Huang (the first Emperor of China).
31. Abraham.
32. They are monotheistic and trace their roots to Abraham (belief in one God).
33. Babylon was in ancient Mesopotamia — in what is now central/southern Iraq (near the Euphrates River, south of modern Baghdad).
34. Judaism’s central scriptures are the Torah (and more broadly the Tanakh/Hebrew Bible).
35. Hinduism has many sacred texts; the Vedas are the oldest authorities, and important texts include the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita.
36. The Guru Granth Sahib.
37. The Analects (Confucius’s sayings); Confucian tradition also uses the Five Classics.
38. The Qur’an.
39. Nirvana (Buddhism). In Hinduism a similar concept is called moksha.
40. The Silk Road.
41. Rough locations: Rome — Italy (southern Europe); Greece — southeastern Europe (Balkan Peninsula); Persia — roughly modern Iran; India — South Asia (Indian subcontinent); China — East Asia.
42. The Neolithic Revolution = the transition from hunting‑gathering to agriculture and settled villages. Longer growing seasons made crop cultivation more reliable, produced surpluses, supported larger populations and permanent settlements, and allowed specialization.
43. Egypt is called the “Gift of the Nile” because the Nile’s annual floods deposited fertile silt, supplied water and transport, and made agriculture (and civilization) possible in an otherwise desert region.
44. Pax Romana = a long period (~27 BCE–180 CE) of relative peace, stability and prosperity across the Roman Empire.
45. Constantine the Great was a Roman emperor who played a major role in Rome’s history by legalizing Christianity and reshaping the empire (including founding Constantinople).
46. He issued the Edict of Milan (313 CE) legalizing Christianity, supported the Church, convened the Council of Nicaea, and promoted Christianity within the empire.
47. Major Roman contributions: Roman law and legal ideas, republican government concepts, engineering and architecture (roads, aqueducts, concrete, arches), Latin language (roots of Romance languages), and many administrative and military practices.
48. Rome borrowed heavily from Greek culture: art, literature, philosophy, religion/mythology, architectural styles (columns, temples) and adapted them for Roman use.
49. The idea “innocent until proven guilty” traces to Roman law.
50. Many Roman and Greek ideas are still used in the U.S. government — especially Roman law principles (like presumption of innocence), the republican/republic form of government, a senate (in name and concept), written laws, and ideas about civic duty; Greek ideas of citizenship and democratic participation also influence American government.