World History Chapter 3 Test Review - Terms

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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


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