religion and culture

Question 1

What is the significance of doves in christianity?

Answer 1

Represents the holy spirit that descended like a dove

Question 2

What is the significance of peacocks in christianity?

Answer 2

Peacocks were thought to not decay, so they represented eternal life in Christ.

Question 3

What is the significance of the Ithycus/fish in christian art?

Answer 3

represents Christianity/oppression

Question 4

What is the significance of ΧΡ/chi ro in christian art?

Answer 4

Like saying CR, first two Greek letters of christ.

Question 5

What is the annunciation?

Answer 5

An image of Mary finding out she will give birth to Christ?

Question 6

What is the visitation?

Answer 6

Mary and her sister, origin of dove symbolism

Question 7

What is the nativity?

Answer 7

A depiction of the birth of Christ

Question 8

What is the crucifixion?

Answer 8

A depiction of the death of christ

Question 9

What is the deposition?

Answer 9

Christ’s burial

Question 10

What is the lamentation?

Answer 10

people grieving jesus

Question 11

What is the pieta?

Answer 11

Mary holding her son’s body

Question 12

What is a Christ Pantocrator image?

Answer 12

Byzantine, Christ with an invisible cigarette

Question 13

What is depicted in the Sacrifice of Issac fresco in the Catacombs of Priscilla?

Answer 13

Abraham almost sacrificing issac, depiction of devotion and obedience.

Question 14

What is the significance of Abraham to christians?

Question 15

What is the significance of Issac to christians?

Answer 15

Issac was almost sacrificed by his father, Abraham

Question 16

What is the significance of Jacob to christians?

Question 17

What is the significance of Noah to christians?

Answer 17

Noah survived the flood

Question 18

What is the significance of Moses to christians?

Answer 18

Split the red sea and freed the Jewish people

Question 19

What is the significance of Mary to christians?

Answer 19

She is the mother of jesus

Question 20

What is the significance of Jesus to christians?

Answer 20

Final prophet/messiah figure

Question 21

What is the significance of Paul to christians?

Question 22

Why doesn’t Muslim art depict people?

Answer 22

It is viewed as idolatry

Question 23

How many surahs are there?

Question 24

When was Mohammed born?

Question 25

What happened to Mohammed's father?

Question 26

Who took care of Mohmammed after his mother's death?

Question 27

Who took care of Mohmammed after his grandfather's death?

Question 28

How many kids did Mohmammed have?

Question 29

Who did Mohammed marry?

Answer 29

a forty year old merchant

Question 30

What city was Mohammed born in?

Answer 30

Mecca

Question 31

What did Mohammed flee from?

Answer 31

persecution in mecca

Question 32

Where did Mohammed flee to?

Answer 32

medina

Question 33

What were the contents of Mohammed's vision?

Answer 33

that the trinity was false

Question 34

What is a caliphate?

Answer 34

A ruler

Question 35

What was the first caliphate?

Answer 35

rashidun (632-661)

Question 36

What was the second caliphate?

Answer 36

Umayyad (661-750)

Question 37

What was the third caliphate?

Answer 37

Abbasid (750-1517)

Question 38

What was the fourth caliphate?

Answer 38

Fatimid Caliphate (909-1174)

Question 39

What was the fifth caliphate?

Answer 39

Ottoman Caliphate/Empire (1517-1924)

Question 40

Who did the Abbassid caliphate overthrow?

Answer 40

The Umayyads

Question 41

Why did the Abbassid caliphate overthrow the Umayyads?

Answer 41

perceived corruption

Question 42

Who were the visigoths?

Question 43

What were pilgrimages?

Question 44

What were pilgrimages churches?

Question 45

Who was Theodora?

Question 46

Who was Justinian?