Chapter 3 Vocabulary

Question 1

Groups of Asian people who migrated to different places

Answer 1

Indo-Europeans

Question 2

Dry grasslands

Answer 2

Steppes

Question 3

Movement of people from one place to another

Answer 3

Migration

Question 4

Groups of Indo-Europeans that occupied Anatolia

Answer 4

Hittites

Question 5

Groups of Indo-Europeans

Answer 5

Aryans

Question 6

Sacred literature of the Aryans

Answer 6

Vendas

Question 7

Priest

Answer 7

Brahmin

Question 8

Class

Answer 8

Caste

Question 9

Poem that tells the story of a Great War

Answer 9

Mahabharata

Question 10

Belief that the soul is reborn

Answer 10

Reincarnation

Question 11

Good or bad deeds

Answer 11

Karma

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Jainism

Question 13

Founder of Buddhism

Answer 13

Siddhartha Gautama

Question 14

Wisdom

Answer 14

Enlightenment

Question 15

Buddha’s word for release from selfishness and pain

Answer 15

Nirvana

Question 16

Group of powerful sea-faring people

Answer 16

Minoans

Question 17

Sea between modern-day Greece and Turkey

Answer 17

Aegean Sea

Question 18

Minoan capital city

Answer 18

Knossos

Question 19

King of Knossos

Answer 19

King Minos

Question 20

Most powerful traders along the Mediterranean

Answer 20

Phoenicians

Question 21

Ancient home of the Israelites

Answer 21

Canaan

Question 22

First 5 books of the Hebrew Bible

Answer 22

Torah

Question 23

“Father” of the Jewish People

Answer 23

Abraham

Question 24

Belief in a single god

Answer 24

Monotheism

Question 25

Mutual promise between god and the Jewish People

Answer 25

Covenant

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Moses

Question 27

Kingdom on the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea

Answer 27

Israel

Question 28

Israelite kingdom in Canaan

Answer 28

Judah

Question 29

Payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power

Answer 29

Tribute