History 7.2 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Allah | the Moslem name for God |
atheism | the belief that there is no God |
Buddhism | an eastern religion |
caliph | a Moslem ruler |
capitalism | an economic system in which private individuals or groups of individuals own land, factories, and other means of production |
caste | a Hindu social level |
communism | an economic and political system in which most or all property is owned by the state and is theoretically shared by all |
evolution | the belief that all present forms of life developed from a few simple forms billions of years ago |
Fertile Crescent | a fertile area in the Near East extending from the Tigris-Euphrates valley to the Jordan valley |
fetish | an object or thing which is believed to have magical powers to help or harm depending on what is wanted |
fundamentalist | one who believes in the absule truth of a religio |
Hinduism | an eastern religion from India |
humanism | the concept that man is the only important reality |
imam | a Mslem scholar, a leader among certain groups in Islam |
isthmus | a narrow strip of land, with water on both sides of it, connecting two larger bodies of land |
Judaism | the religion of the Jews based in the teachings found in the Old Testament |
jungle | a very wet tropical region |
karma | a Hindu teaching or belief that says one is reborn into a higher or lower existence based on how one lived in the previous existance |
Koran | the holy book of the Moslems |
melanin | a dark pigment found in the skin and hair |
Moslem | a follower of Islam |
Nirvana | the Buddhist idea of a heavenly peace or condition |
Panama Canal | a man-made waterway that separates North America and South America |
pantheism | the belief that God is in everything; that all things hold a piece of God who is the total of all of the things |
pantheon | all the gods of a people or ethnic group |
permafrost | area of soil beneath the surface that is permanently frozen in polar and near polar areas |
plains | a flat grassland of the humid middle latitude |
plague | a very dangerous disease that spreads rapidly and often causes death |
polygamy | the practice of having more than one wife at one time |
polytheism | the worship of more than one god, usually many |
proletariat | the class of industrial workers who must earn their living by their labor because they do not have the means to go into business for themselves |
rain forest | a very wet tropical region |
reincarnation | the rebirth into another life on this earth after death |
savanna | a flat grassland of the tropics |
Shintoism | the national religion of Japan |
steppe | a flat grassland of the humid middle latitudes |
tundra | a treeless plain of the polar regions |
utopia | a place of social or political perfection |
voodoo | a religion that includes the use of magic and sorcery |
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