Era 1 + 2 Belief Systems

Question 1

Confucianism features (2)

Answer 1

• Five relationships

- Mandate of Heaven

Question 2

Confucianism role of women (1+ example)

Answer 2

• Women’s roles: wife + mother’s labor useful for agricultural work and domestic industries
  ✅ SAME AS Hinduism
• Rare cases of women rulers (Tang Dynasty- Empress Wu)

Question 3

Confucianism social impact (3)

Answer 3

• Family: Rulers hereditary unless overthrown and challenger gains “mandate of heaven”
• Civil servants by exams (Han)
• Farmers, craftsppl

Question 4

Daoism features (3)

Answer 4

• Yin/ Yang
• Animism: everything has a soul
• Balance in nature (incl. ppl)

Question 5

Where is Confucianism and Daoism found?

Answer 5

East Asia

Question 6

Hinduism (3)

Answer 6

• Caste system
• Monotheistic: multiple expressions of 1 deity
• No central figure

Question 7

Hinduism emphasized

Answer 7

Hinduism emphasized ritual prayer/ sacred texts

Question 8

Hinduism role of women

Answer 8

• Women’s role: wife and mother but their labor needed for agricultural work and domestic industries
  ✅ SAME AS Confucianism

Question 9

Hinduism major areas

Answer 9

South + Southeast Asia

Question 10

Buddhism

Answer 10

• 4 Noble Truths: Buddha’s teachings to stop suffering, through ending desire
• 8 fold path: ANYONE can renounce desire, be free from suffering, and achieve nirvana

Question 11

Buddhism role of women

Answer 11

Women could be religious figures

Question 12

Buddhism and Hinduism relationship

Answer 12

Buddhism rejected the caste system

Question 13

Judaism (5)

Answer 13

• First monotheistic religion
• Didn’t encourage forced conversion
• Emphasis on daily prayer
• Sacred text Torah
• God = Ethics, more abstract

Question 14

Judaism major area

Answer 14

Mediterranean

Question 15

Christianity (3)

Answer 15

• Monotheistic
• Jesus Christ as savior
• Gospels: the teachings of Christ emphasize saints

Question 16

Christianity major areas

Answer 16

Mediterranean, Europe, Byzantine territory, Ethiopia

Question 17

Christianity social impact

Answer 17

Christianity appealed to all classes and both genders

Question 18

Egypt had a strong belief in…

Answer 18

Egypt had a strong belief in the afterlife: Book of Dead

Question 19

Egypt vs. Mesopotamia

Answer 19

Egypt: smaller nobility, less merchants, more politically stable, less advanced in math and astronomy
Mesopotamia: women have higher status

Question 20

Indus Valley

Answer 20

Loved women lol

• Polytheistic bc fertility goddesses
• Statues reflect reverence of female reproductive systems

Question 21

Shang China and Mesopotamia similarities

Answer 21

Bronze weapons and tools, chariots