Chapter 4 Vocabulary
Across
- 2. the Buddha (2)
- 5. the language Jesus spoke
- 6. "the World Soul"
- 9. means "study"; standard collection of Jewish traditions
- 11. non-Jewish people
- 15. Jewish God of the Old Testament
- 16. believed that mathematics lay beneath the chaos and complexity of world
- 20. distinct and ranked social order in India; became a register of spiritual progress (2)
- 24. honoring of ancestors (2)
- 25. Hindu sacred text consisting of poems, hymns, prayers, and rituals
- 28. historical founder of Daoism
- 30. Hindu protector and preserver of creation associated with mercy and goodness
- 32. individual human soul
- 35. focus on physical and martial achievements
- 40. philosophy concerned with human relationships, effective government, social harmony
- 42. prophet or messiah in Christianity
- 43. language, literature, history, philosophy, and ethics (2)
- 45. founding father of Judaism
- 46. the Way; an elusive notion that refers to the way of nature and its governing principle
- 47. philosophy that sought a non-religious explanation of the material world (2)
- 48. divine Jewish teachings; "law"; "teachings"; "instruction"; first 5 books of OT
Down
- 1. cycle of rebirth and reincarnation
- 3. book entitled The Way and Its Power by Laozi
- 4. dynasty dropped Legalism for Confucianism
- 7. collected writings and teachings of Confucius
- 8. concerned with ethics and government; wrote The Republic
- 10. the first place where Christianity was adopted as the state religion
- 12. enlightenment achieved by those who followed the Buddha's path
- 13. where the earliest Christian building is located
- 14. prophet that recast traditional Persian polytheism into a vision of a sinlge unique god
- 16. an early convert and proponent of Christianity
- 17. Greek historian that wrote about Greco-Persian Wars
- 18. Hindu priest
- 19. a belief in the unity of opposites (2)
- 21. Roman emperor who enforced a ban on all polytheistic rituals and practices
- 22. universal day of prayer, study, and rest every seventh day
- 23. refined qualtities of rationality, scholarship, with literary and artistic abilities
- 26. postulated that the body was composed of four fluids/humors
- 27. god of Zoroastrianism (2)
- 29. Hindu god representing the Divine and its destructive aspect
- 31. text that sought to understand the inner meaning of sacrifices in the Vedas
- 33. formulated the idea of "atoms" which colided to form visible matter
- 34. spiritually developed people who postponed their own entry into nirvana to assist others
- 36. the union with Brahman; the final goal of humankind
- 37. suffering of which the Buddha mentioned
- 38. dispersal of Jews to other parts of the world
- 39. belief that human souls migrated from body to body over many lifetimes
- 41. son of Isaac who moved Hebrews to Egypt to escape famine; Israel
- 44. adopted by Qin dynasty to unify China; consited of clear laws and harsh punishments