Chapter 3 Flashcards
Indo-European
A group of nomadic people who may have come from Steppes
Steppes
dry grassland that stretch north of the Caucasus
migration
Movements of a people from one region to anthor
Hittites
one Indo-European speakers in about 2000B.C
Anatolia
Asia Minor
Aryans
Another Indo-European people whose homeland was probably somewhere between the Caspian ans Aral saes
Vedas
the sacred literature which tells the life of Aryan.
Brahmins
The top level of people among Aryans
castes
The system which divided people into four groups
Mahabharata
An epic of India which reflects the struggles that took place in INdia as the Aryan Kings worked to control Indian lands
Reincarnation
An Individual Soul or spirit which is born again andg again until Moksha is achieved
Karma
Good or bad deeds
Jainism
A belief that think everything in the universe hasa a soul and so should not be harmed
Siddhartha Gautama
The founder of Buddhism who was born into a noble family that lived in Nepal
enlightenment
wisdom
Nirvana
The buddha’s word for release from selfishness and pain
Minoans
A powerful seafaring people who dominated trade in the eastern Mediterranean from about 2000 to 1400 B.C
Aegean Sea
A sea inside of Meditteranean.
Knossos
The minoan capital city.
King Minos
a king who owned a half-human half bull monster called Minotaur
Phoenicians
The most powerful traders along the Mediterranean in 1100B.C
Palestine
A region at the eastern end of the Mediterranean sea where the Phoenicians lived in
Canaan
the ancient home of Hebrews
Torah
the First five books of the old testament
