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chp, 5 religion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what are the religions in china | confucanism and Daoism |
| what are the religions in India | Hinduism and Buddhism |
| what are the religions in middle east | zorastriamnism and juadism |
| what is the religion in Greece | based off of thw writings of Socrates, plato , aristrotle, etc |
| What did the chinease and greek thinkers focused on | the affaris of the world and credited human rationality with the power to understand that reality |
| what did the indian and jewish intellectuals focused on | exploring the realm of the divine and its relationship to human life , were much more religious |
| what is legalism and where did it take place | trying to resolve empire probs by enforcing stict laws and punishments in china |
| who started confucnaism | Confucius 551-479 BCE |
| What is confucanism | knowing your role in society fillal piety, care about others, emphasized edu. as the key to moral betterment,equal for women, wasn't religious didn't not deny the gods but did encourage it |
| who started Daoism but countined it | laoiz but zhuangzi continued it |
| what is Daoism | engouraging withdrawl from the world of nature and encouraged behavior that focused on the individual,wanted to live small self sufficient communities, limited gov., no edu., |
| How was Hinduism brought to be | by no founder but by growing up in many centuries along with indian civilizations |
| what were the vedas in india ? and who made them | collection ofpoems, rituals, hymns, prayers and rituals made by the Brahmins (priest) |
| what were the Upanishads and who was it made by | highly philosophical works that sought to proe the inner meaning of the sacrifices prescribed in the Vedas |
| what is Brahmin | highest priest |
| what is Brahman | Life force |
| What was the fundamental assertian of Hinduism | the human soul or atman, to connect with the union with Brahamn an end to perception of a seprate existence , moksha ( liberation) |
| What did Hinduism believe what would happen to the soul | recarnation dealing with karma pure actions resulted in rebirth of a higher caste, achive moska by study, devotion to diety, action in the world, meditation |
| who founded Buddhism | Siddartha ( 566 BCE- 486 CE ) |
| how was buddhidm founded | the prince went on a 6 year spiritual quest called the middle path or enlighment and was know as Buddha |
| what did Buddhism focus on | to achive engligment or nirvana, in which the individual identity will be extinguished with all the greed , hatred, dellision. Teching that oridnarty life is anillusion, karma, rebirth, rejected the power of the preist or gods, gave freedom to women |
| What new religions came out of Buddhism | Mayahana, Thervada |
| why did Buddhism die out | because the mounting wealth of the monasteries and the economic interests of their leading figures sepreated from ordinary people and completion of islam but mostly completion with Hinduism |
| what is the Mahabharata and Ramayana | epic poems that explained the caste stystem and provide duties to liberation |
| what was bhakti | the movement involved the intense adoration of and identification with a particular diety |
| what religions where monotheistic | Christianity, islam, zorastrianism |
| what is zorastriam | based off of Zarathustra, believed in Ahura Mazada source of light, Angra Manu is the evil god eygpt, mesoptamia, Anatolia |
| what is Judaism | called Hebrews, tradtions written in the old testament, went from mesoptamia to Palestine under Abraham, dominated assyrians,babylonia, Persia, god called Yahweh, devine god |
| what was the greek way | abandoned mythological framewok affirmed the world was a physical reality governed by natural laws, for a moral and ethical life |
| who was Socrates | a Athenian phiospher who taught by questioning his students thinking |
| who helped spread Christianity | saint paul |