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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 — religion from India teaching enlightenment through meditation and renouncing desire; suffering comes from attachment.
18. Sikhism — monotheistic religion from India stressing good deeds, service, and kindness to reach salvation.
19. Confucianism — Chinese philosophical/religious system teaching that education and moral behavior create a stable society.
20. Hinduism — polytheistic religion from India in which Brahma is one of the principal gods.
21. Confucius (Kong Fuzi).
22. Guru Nanak.
23. Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha).
24. Hinduism — no single founder; developed over centuries from Vedic and indigenous traditions.
25. In India (the Indus/Ganges region of South Asia).
26. The House of Wisdom — a major learning and translation center in medieval Baghdad that preserved and advanced science, medicine, and philosophy during the Islamic Golden Age.
27. Ancient India (the South Asian River Valley/Vedic society developed the caste system).
28. Gupta Empire culture — a “Golden Age” with advances in math (zero, decimal), astronomy, literature, art, and flourishing Hindu culture.
29. Buddhism.
30. Qin Shi Huang (the First Emperor of Qin).
31. Abraham.
32. Monotheism — belief in one God.
33. Babylon is in ancient Mesopotamia, in modern-day Iraq (near present-day Hillah, south of Baghdad).
34. Judaism — the Torah (part of the Hebrew Bible/Tanakh).
35. Hinduism — the Vedas (with important texts like the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita).
36. Sikhism — the Guru Granth Sahib.
37. Confucianism — the Analects (and the Four Books and Five Classics).
38. Islam — the Qur’an.
39. Nirvana (Buddhism); Moksha is the comparable term in Hinduism.
40. The Silk Road.
41. Rome (Italy, Europe), Greece (southeastern Europe), Persia (modern Iran), India (South Asia), China (East Asia).
42. Neolithic Revolution — the shift from hunting/gathering to farming and settled life; longer growing seasons allowed more reliable crops and food surpluses to support permanent villages.
43. Because the Nile’s annual floods deposited fertile silt, making agriculture and civilization possible in an otherwise desert region.
44. Pax Romana — a long period of relative peace and stability across the Roman Empire (roughly 27 BCE–180 CE).
45. Constantine — Roman emperor who legalized Christianity and transformed the empire (including founding Constantinople).
46. He issued the Edict of Milan (granting religious tolerance to Christians) and supported the Church politically and financially.
47. Roman contributions: written law, republican ideas, roads and engineering, architecture (arches/aqueducts), Latin-based legal and linguistic legacy.
48. Rome adopted and adapted Greek culture — art, literature, philosophy, religion, and architectural forms.
49. Rome.
50. Many Roman ideas are still used in the U.S. government: republicanism, a senate/representative institutions, written law/codified legal principles, and legal concepts like “innocent until proven guilty.”