Name: ______________________________
Mrs. Nessler
Date
Quarter 2 – Homework 4
QUESTIONS FOR READING
Directions: Read chapter one in your textbook to help you answer the following questions. Go to my website and
look at “HW Helpful Hints.” Make sure you answer in full sentences that COMPLETELY answers question and explains
all of the important information.
1. How would you define the appeal of the religious/cultural traditions discussed in this chapter? To what
groups were they attractive and why?
 Be sure to mention: How Legalism and Confucianism, Buddhism and Christianity and Judaism
2. Fundamentally, religions are basically alike. Explain how the material of this chapter supports and challenges
this idea?
 Be sure to mention: Influences Zoroastrianism had on Christianity, Judaism and Islam; The influences
Judaism had on Christianity or Islam; Similarities between Christianity and Buddhism, The differences
between Buddhism and Hinduism, The differences in the concept of God in Judaism and Christianity,
Brahman in Hinduism and Dao in the Chinese tradition.
3. What different answers to the problem of disorder arose in classical China?
 Be sure to mention: Legalism, Confucianism and Daoism.
4. What is the difference between the Theravada and Mahayana expressions of Buddhism?
5. What aspects of Zoroastrianism and Judaism subsequently (later) found a place in Christianity and Islam?
6. How would you compare the lives and teachings of Jesus and the Buddha? In what different ways did the
two religions evolve after the deaths of their founders?
7. In what ways was Christianity transformed in the five centuries following the death of Jesus?
IDENTIFY (VOCABULARY WORDS)
Directions: Read chapter one and use the information to identify the following words. Please make sure you put
these definitions in your own words.
1. Bhagavad Gita
2. Confucianism
3. Daoism
4..Jesus of Nazareth
5. Judaism
6. Legalism
7. Mahayana
8. Moksha
9. Nirvana
10. Saint Paul
11. Siddhartha Gautama
12. Theravada
13. Upanishads
14. Vedas
15. Zoroastrianism
16. Karma
17. Darma
18. Yahweh ( yes… againt)
19. Samsara
20. Animism and Shintoism