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Indo-Europeans

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-group of nomadic people who came across the steppes

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steppes

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-dry grasslands that stretched North of Caucasus

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migrations

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  • movements of people from one region to another

- happens over a long period of time

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Hittites

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  • a group of IndoEuropean speakers
  • occupied Anatolia
  • known for iron technology
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Anatolia

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  • peninsula in modern day Turkey
  • just out in black and Mediterranean seas
  • also known as Asia Minor
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Aryans

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  • homeland was somewhere between Caspian and Aral Seas

- group of Info-European speakers

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Vedas

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  • four collections of prayers, magical spells and instructions
  • sacred literature
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Brahmins

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-priests

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castes

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  • Portugal encountered this social system
  • 4 major groups
  • each group called a “caste”
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Mahabarata

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  • reflects the struggles that took place in India

- one of the great epics of India

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reincarnation

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-rebirth of an individual soul or spirit

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karma

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-good or bad deeds

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Jainism

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  • Believes every living object has a soul

- adopted from Hinduism

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Siddhartha Guatama

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  • founder of Buddhism
  • born into a nobel family that lived in Kapikavastu
  • left his lifestyle to achieve enlightenment
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enlightenment

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-“wisdom”

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nirvana

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-buddha word for release from selfishness and pain

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Minoans

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  • dominated trade in eastern Mediterranean

- powerful, seafaring people

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Aegean Sea

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-large island on the southern edge of the Aegean sea

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Knossos

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-Minoan capital city

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King Minos

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  • King of Minoa aka Crete
  • King who had a Minotaur into the labyrinth
  • archaeologists named a civilization they found in Crete Minoa after King Minos
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Phoenicians

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-powerful traders along the Mediterranean after Crete declined

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Palestine

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  • at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea

- Phoenicians live there

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Canaan

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-ancient home of the Hebrews, later called Jews, in this area

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Torah

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  • first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible

- most sacred writings in Jewish traditions

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Abraham

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-God chose him to be the father of the Hebrew people

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Monotheism

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  • belief in a single God
  • mono=one
  • Hebrews monotheists: pray to one God
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Covenant

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-the mutual promise between God and Abraham

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Moses

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-man who led Hebrews out of Egypt

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Israel

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-kingdom that the 12 tribes united to make

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Judah

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-Israel split into 2 kingdoms:
•Israel-northern kingdom
•Judah-southern kingdom

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