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chap 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Buddhism | The oldest universalizing religion, which arose from a hearth in northeastern India sometime between the mid-sixth and mid-fourth centuries B.C.E. and is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha. |
| Christianity | A universalizing religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ that began in what is now the West Bank and Israel around the beginning of the common ear and has spread to all continents. |
| Ethnic Religion | A religion that is closely tied with a particular ethnic group often living in a particular place |
| Hinduism | An ethnic religion that arose a few thousand years ago in South Asia and is closely tied to India. |
| Islam | A universalizing religion based on the teachings of Muhammad that originated in the hearth of Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century. |
| Judaism | The worlds first monotheistic religion, which developed among the Hebrew people of Southwest Asia about 4,000 years ago. |
| Language Branch | A collection of languages within a language family that share a common origin and separated from other branches in the same family several thousand years ago. |
| Language Family | A group of languages that share a common ancestral language from a particular hearth, or region of origin. |
| Language Group | Languages within a language branch that share a common ancestor in the relatively recent past and have vocabularies with a high degree of overlap. |
| Isolate | A language that is unrelated to any other language. |
| Secularized | Focused on worldly rather than spiritual concerns. |
| Sikhism | The newest universalizing religion; founded by Nuru Ganak, who lived from 1469 to 1539, the Punjab region of northwestern India. |
| Universalizing Religion | A religion that tries to appeal to all humans and is open to membership by everyone. |