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| Siddhartha Guatama | The founder of Buddhism |
| Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva | The primary Gods of Hinduism |
| Muhammad | The founder of Islam |
| Filial Piety | Respect shown by children for parents and elders |
| Polytheism | Belief in many gods |
| Abraham | The founder of Judaism |
| Hinduism | The oldest organized religion, whose followers believe the Ganges River is sacred |
| Islam | The religion whose basic teachings include the five pillars |
| Confucianism | The belief system that believes in social order, harmony, and good governmnet through five basic relationships |
| Judaism | The religion whose holy book is the Torah and who believe in one god |
| Moksha | In Hinduism, this is the final stage where a spirit is liberated form desires, and suffering |
| Nirvana | In Buddhism, this is the final stage when a spirit is released from selfishness and pain achieved by following the eight-fold path |
| Muslim | A follower of Islam |
| Analects | The earliest and most authentic record of Confucius' words |
| Monotheism | belief in the one and only god |
| Karma | The lasting effects of good and bad deeds that effect rfuture reincarnation states |
| Torah | The most sacred writings of the Jewish religion they make up the first five books of the Hebrew Bible |
| Dharma | In Buddhism, the term refers to the laws and doctorines followers must adhere to |
| Constantine | The first Roman emperor to embrace Christianity |
| Diocletion | The Roman Emperor who persecuted Christians |
| Mecca | The holiest city of Islam, towards which Muslims must face five times a day to pray |
| 670 AD | 7th century |
| caste system | The social class system to which a person is born for life. It determines their job and whom they may marry and may associate |
| Five Pillars | pilgrimage to Mecca, faith in Allah, charity, prayer five times a day,fasting during Ramadan |
| Gospels | The first four books of the new testamnet |
| Kosher | dietary laws that Jewish people follow that do not allow shellfish and pig |
| Gurus | Spiritual teachers of Hinduism |
| Rabbis | Spiritual teachers of Judaism |
| Vedas and Upanishads | The most sacred of the Hindu texts |
| Apostles | discilpes of Jesus |
| heresy | any belief that contradicts the basic teachings of the church |
| Koran or Quran | the holy book of Islam |
| Allah | The arabic word for God used by Muslims |
| yarmulke | the skullcap worn by Jewish men out of respect for God |
| Edict of Milan | This document passed by Constantine stated that Christianity was approved by the emperor |
| Religion | An organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, practices and worship that center around one or more Gods and/or Goddesses |
| Hajj | pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a Muslim's life |
| Mosque | Islamic house of worship |
| salat | prayer five times a day by Muslims |
| sacrament | Christian ceremonies in which God's grace is transmitted to the people |
| Pope | The head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| covenant | A mutual agreement especiallybetween the Hebrew people and God |
| Hebrew | The language of the Jewish people and sometimes used to describe Jewish people |
| enlightenment | a state of perfect understanding and wisdom |
| sangha | a community of Buddhist monks and nuns |
| pilgrimage | a religious journey |
| bureaucracy | a system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of the governement |
| Daoism | a philosophy based on the ideas of Chinesse thinker Laozi, who taught people should be guided by the universal force Dao |
| yin-yang | the two powers that govern the natural rythms of life in Chinese thought |
| Genocide | the systematic, planned elimination of a racial, political or cultural group |
| stereotyping | an oversimplified generalization about a person or group with out regard to individual differences |
| scapegoating | the action of blaming an individual or group for a problem when in reality there is no one person or group responsible |
| propaganda | ideas or information publicized to win people over to a given idea |
