Chapter 3

Question 1

Indo-European

Answer 1

A group of nomadic people who may have come from Steppes

Question 2

Steppes

Answer 2

dry grassland that stretch north of the Caucasus

Question 3

migration

Answer 3

Movements of a people from one region to anthor

Question 4

Hittites

Answer 4

one Indo-European speakers in about 2000B.C

Question 5

Anatolia

Answer 5

Asia Minor

Question 6

Aryans

Answer 6

Another Indo-European people whose homeland was probably somewhere between the Caspian ans Aral saes

Question 7

Vedas

Answer 7

the sacred literature which tells the life of Aryan.

Question 8

Brahmins

Answer 8

The top level of people among Aryans

Question 9

castes

Answer 9

The system which divided people into four groups

Question 10

Mahabharata

Answer 10

An epic of India which reflects the struggles that took place in INdia as the Aryan Kings worked to control Indian lands

Question 11

Reincarnation

Answer 11

An Individual Soul or spirit which is born again andg again until Moksha is achieved

Question 12

Karma

Answer 12

Good or bad deeds

Question 13

Jainism

Answer 13

A belief that think everything in the universe hasa a soul and so should not be harmed

Question 14

Siddhartha Gautama

Answer 14

The founder of Buddhism who was born into a noble family that lived in Nepal

Question 15

enlightenment

Answer 15

wisdom

Question 16

Nirvana

Answer 16

The buddha’s word for release from selfishness and pain

Question 17

Minoans

Answer 17

A powerful seafaring people who dominated trade in the eastern Mediterranean from about 2000 to 1400 B.C

Question 18

Aegean Sea

Answer 18

A sea inside of Meditteranean.

Question 19

Knossos

Answer 19

The minoan capital city.

Question 20

King Minos

Answer 20

a king who owned a half-human half bull monster called Minotaur

Question 21

Phoenicians

Answer 21

The most powerful traders along the Mediterranean in 1100B.C

Question 22

Palestine

Answer 22

A region at the eastern end of the Mediterranean sea where the Phoenicians lived in

Question 23

Canaan

Answer 23

the ancient home of Hebrews

Question 24

Torah

Answer 24

the First five books of the old testament

Question 25

Abraham

Answer 25

the one god chose to be the father of Hebrews

Question 26

monotheism

Answer 26

a belief in a single god

Question 27

covenant

Answer 27

the promise between god and the founder of the Hebrew people

Question 28

Moses

Answer 28

a maan who led the Hebrews out of slavery

Question 29

Israel

Answer 29

the kingdom made by the three kings of Hebrews

Question 30

Judah

Answer 30

A kingdom came out of Israel

Question 31

Tribute

Answer 31

Peace money paid by a weaker power to a stronger