Belief Systems (Exam Version)

Question 1

Confucianism

Answer 1

• People are naturally good and should concentrate on improving their behavior and what they know is Right
• Five relationships: ruler and subject, husband and wife, older sibling and younger sibling, parent and child, friend and friend
• Developed in China

Question 2

Legalism

Answer 2

• The belief that people are bad by nature and need to be controlled
• Clear laws with punishments and rewards
• china

Question 3

Daoism

Answer 3

• People can gain peace and happiness by becoming one with nature (dao)
• True harmony comes from balancing the opposite forces of nature (yin and yang)
• Opposed to organized government
• Encouraged meditation and self reflection
  China

Question 4

Buddhism

Answer 4

Anyone can gain salvation and wisdom by letting go of desire’

• All life is suffering
• Suffering comes from desire
• One must limit desire to limit suffering
• To limit suffering one must follow the eight fold path
• No gods
• Meditation
• India

Question 5

Islam

Answer 5

• Allah (God) is all powerful and all knowing, Muhammad (Allah’s prophet) preached his word and carried his message
• Submit to Gods rule, spread God’s rule, lead a virtuous life
• Prayer
• Admission of obedience to god
• Quran
• Arabia

Question 6

Hinduism

Answer 6

• (Samsara) endless repeating cycle in which souls are reincarnated through a continual process of rebirth
• (Karma) actions in ones life
  (Moksha) State of liberation, bliss, and awareness in which one achieved union with brahman
• Many Gods
• Caste system
• Prayer
• The Veda
• Started in Northern India

Question 7

Judaism

Answer 7

• one god
• covenant
• Ten commandments
• Torah
• Spread through diasporas

Question 8

Christianity

Answer 8

• Jesus
• god
• Ten commandments
• look forward to jesus’s imminent return
• bible
  Church leaders used romans roads to spread faith
• diff interpretations of bible led to different sects