Religion Study Guide

  1. What prohibits Muslims from gabling and drinking alcohol?
  2. What do Muslims believe about Abraham, Moses,, Jesus, and Muhammad?
  3. What causes Muhammad to move from Mecca to the city of Medina?
  4. During what month do Muslims fast?
  5. When did Muhammad begin preaching his beliefs in Mecca?
  6. What is Sharia
  7. What were Arab Muslims aided in their conquest by?
  8. What is a common feature among Muslim mosque?
  9. What does the Sunnah record?
  10. Explain the attitude toward reading and writing in the Muslim culture.
  11. Describe the five pillars of Islam.
  12. Describe the land in Arabia.
  13. Describe the lives of the people living in Arabia’s desert before the spread of Islam.
  14. How would you describe the spread of Islam during the Arab conquest.
  15. Who are the Shia?
  16. What is Canaan?
  17. What led to the Diaspora?
  18. Where did the Israelites live before their return to their promised land?
  19. Where are the Psalms and proverbs located in the Hebrew bible?
  20. Why did God give Moses the 10 commandments?
  21. What is a legacy of Judaism?
  22. Where can the history of the Jewish people be found?
  23. Where was the birthplace of the Jewish patriarch Abraham?
  24. Why do Jews become involved in efforts to fight discrimination?
  25. Who led the Israelites out of slavery?
  26. Which Israelite captured Jerusalem and made it the capitol of the Kingdom of Israel?
  27. Why is it important to Follow Gods laws?
  28. Who are the Jewish patriarchs?
  29. Other than Abraham, who led the Israelites into the Promised Land?
  30. What is the Torah?
  31. Where do we get information about the life of Jesus?
  32. What is a major part of Jesus’s teachings?
  33. What was Jesus a member of?
  34. What did the Roman persecution of Christians do for the religion?
  35. What convinced Jesus’s followers that he was the Messiah?
  36. What are the central beliefs of Christianity?
  37. Where can you learn about the lives of early Christians?
  38. The Gospel teaches that Jesus descended from whom?
  39. What did the disciples do after Jesus’ death?

Religion study guide

  1. The legal code known as Sharia.
  2. That they were all prophets.
  3. He was free to preach Islam in Mecca and not Medina.
  4. During the month of Ramadan.
  5. When he received messages from God through the angel Gabriel.
  6. It influences law codes in some Muslim countries.
  7. A shared faith in Islam which united them.
  8. They all have a prayer hall that faces in the direction of Mecca.
  9. It records the words and actions of Muhamad.
  10. People valued literacy because they wanted to read the Quran.
  11. Know the five pillars.
  12. It has a hot dry desert landscape.
  13. It was a mixture of nomads, sedentary farmers, and merchants.
  14. Islam spread inside and outside the new Arab Islam empire.
  15. They are a minority group of Muslims today.
  16. Canaan is the Promised land of the Israelites.
  17. The Babylonian exile
  18. The Sinai desert.
  19. It is located in the writings.
  20. To provide the Israelites with ethical laws.
  21. The Judeo-Christian tradition.
  22. In the torah, the prophets and the writings.
  23. Mesopotamia
  24. Because of the Bibles commandment to Love one another.
  25. Moses
  26. David
  27. The Jews believe that it was a way to show their faithfulness to God.
  28. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  29. Joshua
  30. The traditional beginnings of Judaism are found in the Torah.
  31. In the Gospels.
  32. Forgiveness
  33. The Jewish people
  34. It strengthened their faith.
  35. Their belief in his resurrection.
  36. Jesus is the Son of God, Jesus died to atone for everyone’s sins, Jesus rose from the dead.
  37. In the Acts of the Apostles.
  38. King David
  39. They spread Christianity throughout the Roman world.