global studies chapter three
The social class system that came to be known as the caste system was established in India by...
Aryans
Which Indo-European groups travele the farthest south?
Germans and Balts
Which civilizaation lasted approximately 1,000 years?
Harappan
Essay: Compare the attutide toward the caste system for a Buddhist and Hindu. How are they different? Support your answer with details
Hindus and their beliefs supported the caste system. They believed that only male brahmin and warriors could achieve moksha. Buddhists, on the other hand, rejected the caste system. their belief that anyone could achieve Nirvana went totally against the system.
Which Indo-European group traveled the farthest east?
Indo-Aryans
Which group migrated around the Aral Sea?
Indo-Aryans
The language that English, Sanskrit, Persian, and Spanish are all derived from is...
Indo-European
What bodies of water surrounded the Greeks?
Meditertanean Sea and Aegean Sea
Minoan artwork from the Knossos suggests that
Minoan women held a higher rank than most neighboring cultures allowed
Essay: Expain, in detail, two examples of cultural diffusion from this chapter. Give specific examples with supporting details
One example of cultural diffusion could be Pheonician and Minoan ideas, such ass the phonetic alphabet and respecting women, spreading around the world through traders and word of mouth. Anpther exampe could be Buddhism becoming the most widespread religion in the world due to trades telling people following the caste system that they could acheive happiness without being in a high class.
Of the civilizations listed on the chart, which was the last to develop?
Pheonician
The most able seafarers of the early Mediterranean were the...
Phoenicians
Which civilization is shown as beginning about 1550 BC?
Shang/Zhou
The most sacred writings od the Jewish religion are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, known as...
Torah
the Hittites were able to excel at war because if their knwledge of...
`ironworking
The Hittites took the following from the Babylonian civilization the conquered:
a language for international use
In the Hebrew tradition, a covenant is...
a mutual promise between God and humanity
The Phoenicians contributed greatly to written communication by introducing the first use of...
phonetic symbols
Hinduism and Buddism have a common belief in...
reincarnation
The Pheonicians were known for...
seafaring, trade, and the invention of the phonetic alphabet
Hinduism and Buddhism differ slightly in their beliefs about
the caste system
The Ten Commandments became the basis for...
the ten civil and religious laws of Judaism
Buddism spread across Asia mostly as a result of...
trade
Israel's King Solomon was known for all of the following except...
unifying the 12 tribes
The Indo-European peoples that migrated from the steppes were mainly...
herders
What geographical features might have kept Indo-European groups separated from each other?
mountains seas rivers
In Buddism, the release from slefishness and pain is known as...
nirvana