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