1. Zorastrianism began to flourish throughout Iran during the Persian Empire in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.
2. Zarathustra converted persia's king who led the dominant army.
3. An Angel Called Good Thought appeared to him and brought him, as a disembodied soul, before Ahura mazda. Zarathustra recognized Ahura Mazda as the one true God.
4. The sacred text of Zoroastrianism is the Avesta. The oldest material in this text is Gathas and was written by Zarathustra.
5. Ahura Mazda is eternal and universal goodness, controlling the cosmos and the destiny of human beings. Zarathustra celebrates Ahura Mazda's role as creator of all things through the holy spirit.
6. The belief in universal forces of good and evil.
7. The Lie is an evil cosmic force. It opposes Ahura Mazda, who is good.
8. In the Zoroastrianism cosmic scheme, humans must choose between good and evil.
9. After death individuals go to judgment by crossing a bridge of torment and pain. They walk across a bridge over an abyss and the good get into paradise while the bad fall to their death.
10. Its ethical demands include such principles as caring for livestock and fields.
11. Combine a wide variety of features from the Zoroastrian tradition. They maintain the monotheism of its founder and continue to revere the Avesta as their sacred text. They are located in India.
12 The Iliad and the Odyssey are commonly regarded as the Bibles of the ancient Greeks.
13. The gods have human attributes. No deity, not even Zeus, is all-powerful or all-knowing; rather, all the gods and goddesses have their own specific talents, functions, and limitations. Also there moral behavior is much more human-like than godlike.
14. Aeschylus’s main contribution to to the understanding of the Olympic gods was the idea of divine justice. He believed that the gods actions were in response to the humans’ actions.
15. An oracle is a sanctuary at which revelations of a god are received. The most famous oracle of ancient Greece is Delphi. It was consulted because Greeks sought the wisdom of Apollo through her.
16 Mithraism and the Cult of Isis were main rivals to Christianity in the later Roman empire.
17 The mystery religion that honored Demeter and Persephone was Eleusinian religion.
18. The god Dionysus associated with was the god of fertility. He is often depicted in Greek art by wine and grapes.
19. The goal of the ascetic practices of the Orphics is to lead a pure life.
20. Plato's theory of knowledge is that we know things in life mainly because we have experienced the same things in a previous life.
21. Platonic dualism is the truth of the world that is independent from any bodily or material ideas in reality.
22. Jesus seemed to have much in common with the ancient Asclepius because they were both revered as saviors who had a strong relationship with their followers.
23. Numina were supernatural beings that were in charge of specific functions like populating towns. The sorts of things they were thought to inhabit were streams, fields, and doorways.
24. The most powerful Roman deity was Jupiter.
25. The six planes of our solar system that are named after Roman deities are Neptune, Mercury, Jupiter, Satum, Venus, and Mars.
26. The Roman state considered it essential to maintain official worship practices so they would never anger the gods and remain at peace.
27. The mystery religions that were the main rivals of Christianity in the later Roman Empire were Mithraism and the Cult of Iris.
28. The Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris is about how a man, Osiris, was killed and hacked to pieces by his evil brother. His wife, Iris, found the pieces and mummified them, which caused him to come back to life.
29. The sort of emperor worship encouraged by Augustus was to worship the Roman state and his guardian spirit
30. Christians and Roman rulers clash over emperor worship because Romans believed the focus of worship should be the state, whereas Catholics believed that it should be God.
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