Chapter 3 Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Groups of Asian people who migrated to different places

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Indo-Europeans

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2
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Dry grasslands

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Steppes

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3
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Movement of people from one place to another

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Migration

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4
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Groups of Indo-Europeans that occupied Anatolia

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Hittites

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5
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Groups of Indo-Europeans

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Aryans

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6
Q

Sacred literature of the Aryans

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Vendas

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7
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Priest

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Brahmin

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8
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Class

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Caste

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9
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Poem that tells the story of a Great War

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Mahabharata

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10
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Belief that the soul is reborn

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Reincarnation

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11
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Good or bad deeds

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Karma

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12
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Religion that teaches that every living thing has a soul and no living creature can be harmed

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Jainism

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13
Q

Founder of Buddhism

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Siddhartha Gautama

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14
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Wisdom

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Enlightenment

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15
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Buddha’s word for release from selfishness and pain

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Nirvana

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16
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Group of powerful sea-faring people

A

Minoans

17
Q

Sea between modern-day Greece and Turkey

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Aegean Sea

18
Q

Minoan capital city

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Knossos

19
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King of Knossos

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King Minos

20
Q

Most powerful traders along the Mediterranean

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Phoenicians

21
Q

Ancient home of the Israelites

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Canaan

22
Q

First 5 books of the Hebrew Bible

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Torah

23
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“Father” of the Jewish People

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Abraham

24
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Belief in a single god

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Monotheism

25
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Mutual promise between god and the Jewish People

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Covenant

26
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According to the Torah, the man who lead the Jews out of slavery

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Moses

27
Q

Kingdom on the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea

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Israel

28
Q

Israelite kingdom in Canaan

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Judah

29
Q

Payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power

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