Chapter 3 Keywords

Question 1

Steppes

Answer 1

Dry grass covered plains

Question 2

Migration

Answer 2

The act of moving from one place to settle in another

Question 3

Hitties

Answer 3

An Undo-European people settled in Anatolia around 2000 BC

Question 4

Anatolia

Answer 4

The Southwest Asian peninsula now occupied by the Asian part of Turkey- also called Asia Minor

Question 5

Aryans

Answer 5

An Indo-European people who, about 1500 BC, began to migrate into the Indian subcontinent

Question 6

Vedas

Answer 6

For collections of sacred writings produced by the areas during the early stage of their settlement in India

Question 7

Brahmin

Answer 7

In Aryan society, a member of the social class made up of priests

Question 8

Caste

Answer 8

One of the four classes of people in the social systems of the Aryans who settled in India- freeze, warriors, presence or traders, and non-Aryan laborers or craftsman

Question 9

Mahabharata

Answer 9

Great Indian epic problem, reflecting the struggles of the Aryans as they moved south into India

Question 10

Reincarnation

Answer 10

In Hinduism and Buddhism, the process by which a soul is reborn continuously until it achieves perfect understanding

Question 11

Karma

Answer 11

In Hinduism and Buddhism, totality of the good and the bad deeds performed by a person, which is believed to determine his or her fate after rebirth

Question 12

Jainism

Answer 12

a religion founded in and get the sinks and treat me see, whose members believe everything in the universe has a soul and therefore should not be harmed

Question 13

Siddhartha Guatama

Answer 13

The founder of Buddhism was born into a noble family that lived in Kapliavastu, in the foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal

Question 14

Enlightenment

Answer 14

In Buddhism, the release from pain and suffering achieved after enlightenment

Question 15

Nirvana

Answer 15

In Buddhism, the release from pain and suffering achieved after enlightenment

Question 16

Minoans

Answer 16

A seafaring and trading people that lived in the island of Crete from about 2000 to 1400 BC

Question 17

Knossos

Answer 17

The Minoan capital city

Question 18

King Minos

Answer 18

According to legend, was a king who owned a half-human, half-bull monster called the Minotaur

Question 19

Indo-Europeans

Answer 19

Group of seminomadic people who, about 1700 B.C.E., began to migrate from what it is now seven rushing to the Indians a continent, Europe, and Southwest Asia

Question 20

Phoenicians

Answer 20

A seafaring people of Southwest Asia, who around 1100 BC, began to trade and established colonies throughout the Mediterranean region

Question 21

Palestine

Answer 21

A region at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea

Question 22

Canaan

Answer 22

The ancient home of the Hebrews

Question 23

Torah

Answer 23

The first five books of the Hebrew Bible- the most sacred writings in Jewish traditions

Question 24

Abraham

Answer 24

Father of Jewish people

Question 25

Monotheism

Answer 25

A belief in a single God

Question 26

Covenant

Answer 26

A mutual promise or agreement- especially an agreement between God and the Hebrew people as recorded in the Bible

Question 27

Moses

Answer 27

The man who led the Hebrews out of slavery

Question 28

Israel

Answer 28

A kingdom of the United Hebrew in Palestine, lasting from about 1020 to 922 BC, later, the northernmost of the two Hebrew kingdoms; now, the Jewish nation that was established in Palestine in 1948

Question 29

Judah

Answer 29

A Hebrew kingdom in Palestine, established around 922 BC

Question 30

Tribute

Answer 30

A payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power to obtain an assurance of peace and security