Women in Traditional Asia!!!

Question 1

Babylonian goddess whom they believed everything started with her.

Answer 1

Tiamat

Question 2

Goddess of water

Answer 2

Nammu

Question 3

Goddes of love and war

Answer 3

Inanna

Question 4

Weather goddess

Answer 4

Indra

Question 5

Sun-goddess of the Japanese

Answer 5

Ametarasu-o-mi-kami

Question 6

Codified traditional laws in West Asia

Answer 6

Code of Hammurhabi

Question 7

Codified traditional laws in South Asia

Answer 7

Code of Manu

Question 8

Practice of Hindu society wherein the wife must jump into the funeral pyre of her husband as a sign of wifely devotion

Answer 8

Sati or suttee

Question 9

Practice of Muslim societies wherein a married woman must cover her whole body with a loose robe and a veil

Answer 9

Purdah

Question 10

Practice of the Chinese wherein they intentionally break the arch of the feet of women to keep it from growing

Answer 10

Foot-binding

Question 11

Practice of the Chinese wherein the husband takes another woman to live with his legitimate wife in their house

Answer 11

Concubinage

Question 12

Five weaknesses of women

Answer 12

disobedience, being prone to anger, being talkative, jealousy, and stupidity