Cultural and Religious Systems Quiz

This was a system of ethical and philosophical teachings founded in ancient China; the philosophy became popular after it was adopted by the Han Dynasty shortly after the Warring States Period (475 BCE - 221 BCE).

• Confucianism

• Islam

• feudalism

• Common Land

This was the period during which Hebrew Bible canon, monotheism, and messianic & apocalyptic expectations were adopted into the Jewish faith from 515 BCE - 70 CE.

• Paleolithic

• Second-Temple Judaism

• hunter-gatherer

• Christianity

This is a religious or spiritual practice in which humans worship and/or attribute souls to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.

• shamanism

• Islam

• Buddhism

• animism

This is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.

• shamanism

• state system

• pastoral

• Divine Right of Kings

This is the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah during the 7th century CE.

• Christianity

• Islam

• Buddhism

• Hinduism

This is a society which historically utilizes a form of animal husbandry; such societies are often composed of nomadic people who moved with their herds.

• Islam

• pastoral

• Neolithic

• corvée labor

Also called Old Stone Age, this ancient cultural stage, or level, of human development was characterized by the use of rudimentary chipped stone tools and hunter-gatherer societies.

• feudalism

• shamanism

• Paleolithic

• Islam

This is a form of unpaid, unfree labour, that often acts as rent or labour tax paid to the state.

• absolutism

• corvée labor

• feudalism

• fealty

This was a feudal tenant's or vassal's sworn loyalty to a lord.

• feudalism

• fealty

• vassals

• hunter-gatherer

Also called the New Stone Age, this ancient cultural stage is most-frequently used in connection with agriculture, which is the time when cereal cultivation and animal domestication was introduced.

• vassals

• fealty

• Neolithic

• feudalism