World Religions Review

What is the major difference in the belief of karma between Buddhism and Hinduism?

• They both believe in karma and reincarnation.

• Buddhism believes that all men are created equal and rejects the caste system.

• Hindus do not believe in karma at all. Hinduism is a monotheistic religion.

• Buddhism is a polytheistic religion that includes 33 gods.

What was Siddhartha Gautama before he became considered the Buddha?

• He was a farmer.

• He was a doctor.

• He was the Buddha.

• He was a prince.

Which monotheistic religion worships a god named Ahura Mazda and its followers believe that the world is a battleground between good and evil. Their beliefs are recorded in a sacred text called the Avesta.

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Zoroastrianism

• Buddhism

Which monotheistic religion was followers are called Hebrews, its founder was a man named Abraham, and beliefs are recorded in a sacred text called the Torah.

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Zoroastrianism

• Buddhism

Mesopotamia is a river valley civilization that was the birthplace of the Persia empire and the Zoroastrian faith. What are the name of the two rivers that are located within its territory?

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Tigris and Nile

• Huang He and Euphrates

• Indus and Huang He

Unlike Confucianism that believes in the central ideas of duty and humanity, what do followers of Daoism believe is the way to achieve harmony?

• To put the interests of the community before their own.

• That people are basically good.

• To put the interests of themselves before the community.

• Doing nothing is the will of Heaven.

Which of the following best explains the importance of written languages in the river valley

civilizations?

• As populations began to grow in cities, record-keeping was needed to record amounts of

  agricultural.

• Farmers used written languages to pass down their knowledge about agriculture from one

  generation to the next.

• Religious leaders developed written languages for recording religious teachings.

• Poets developed written languages for recording their poems.

The transition from hunting to farming created the necessity for−

• religion

• government

• nomadic communities

• a money economy

Ten Commandments became the basis for civil and religious laws and are examples of which type of influence?

• Social

• Political

• Religious

• Cultural

Using the map above and your knowledge of World History, which statement demonstrates the most accurate analysis about river valley civilizations?

• Agriculture developed independently as a result of human factors such as the building of systems of government.

• Physical geographic factors such as rivers influenced the development of the First Civilizations.

• The river valley civilizations developed in close proximity to one another as they relied on the labor force to hunt.

• Human factors such as the development of religion shaped the culture of each river valley civilization as they emerged.