World History Chapter 3 Test Review - Terms
Hittites
A group of Indo-Europeans speakers who occupied Asia Minor around 2000 B.C.
Indo-European
A group of nomadic-peoples who may have come from the steppes that stretched out north of the Caucasus and migrated into Europe, India, and Southwest Asia
Brahmin
Aryan priests
Anatolia
Asia Minor
Nirvana
Buddha's word for release from selfish and pains
Hattusas
Capital city of Hittite Empire
Steppe
Dry grasslands that stretches north of the Caucasus
Aryans
Indo-European people whose homeland was between the Caspian and Aral sea around 2000 B.C. and then migrated to the Indus River Valley.
Mahabharata
One of the great epics of India that reflected the struggles that took place in India.
Vedas
Sacred literature of the Aryan culture that provides a picture of Aryan life.
Tyre
The Phoenician city known for their production of red-purple dye
The Four Noble Truths
The four main ideas that the Buddha came to understand during his Enlightenment which revolve around that idea that suffering can end when selfish desires are ended.
Brahma
The god personality of the Hindu world soul known as the Creator
Shiva
The god personality of the Hindu world soul known as the Destroyer
Vishnu
The god personality of the Hindu world soul known as the Protector
Carthage
The greatest Phoenician colony founded in 814 B.C.
Akkadian
The language of the Babylonians
Magadha
The major kingdom that emerged out of the struggle for power among the Aryan territorial kingdoms. Expanded between the 6th and 2nd centuries B.C.
Caucasus
The mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas
Upanishads
The written down Hindi teacher interpretations of the hidden meaning of the Vedic hymns.
Untouchables
Those in the Aryan community who lived outside the caste system because of their impure jobs such as gravedigger.
The Eightfold Path
a guide to behavior in the Buddhist religion that forms much like a staircase towards nirvana
Moksha
a state of perfect understanding of all things
Reincarnation
rebirth by which a soul is reborn again and again
Varna
skin color that was a distinguishing feature in the Aryan caste system
Castes
social class system of the Aryans
Devi
the Hindu great Mother Goddess
Siddhartha Gautama
the founder of Buddhism
Mahavira
the founder of Jainism
Atman
the individual soul of a living being
Brahman
the world soul that contains and unites all atmans.
Enlightenment
wisdom
Karma
.good or bad deeds
Phonetic
one sign used to represent one sound
Babylonian Exile
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Murex
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Talmud
central text of Judaism also known as Shas
Dasas
enemies of the Aryans
Torah
first 5 books of Hebrew bible
Shudras
laborers, lowest caste in the Aryan System
