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Hitties

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  • group of indo- European people
  • occupied Anatolia
  • Hattusas was the capital
  • southwest Asia and Babylon
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Indo- Europeans

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Group of nomadic people who came from the stepped

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Aryan

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  • a group of indo- European
  • homeland is between the Caspian and Aral seas
  • migrated to Indus River Valley
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Vedas

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  • Aryans sacred literature which left a picture of Aryan life
  • Rig Veda is the most important
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Upanishads

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Collection of comments from Hindu teachers trying to interpret and explain the hidden meaning of Verdic hymns

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Reincarnation

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Process by which an individual soul is born again and again until it achieve me moksha

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Moksha

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  • State of perfect understanding of all things

- HINDUISM

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Karma

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  • a soul’s good and bad deeds that follow from one reincarnation to another
  • influences ones certain life circumstances
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Dharma

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Duty

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Caste System

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  1. Brahmin (priests)
  2. Kshatriya (Warriors)
  3. Vaishyas (Landowners/ traders)
  4. Sudra (Peasants)
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Siddhartha Gautama

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Founder of Buddhism

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Nirvana

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Buddha’s word for release from selfishness and pain

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Minoans

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  • powerful seafaring people
  • dominated trade on the Mediterranean
  • lived on Crete
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Knossos

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Minoan capital

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King Minos

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  • the Minoan king the city was named after

- had a half bull half human monster called the MINOTAUR that he kept locked up in a labyrinth

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Phoenicians

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  • became the most powerful Mediterranean traders after Crete’s decline
  • developed first alphabet
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Monotheism

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Belief in one god

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Abraham

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The person god chose to the “the father” of the Hebrew people

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Hebrews

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  • homeland was Canaan

- later called the Jews

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Torah

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First five books of Herbrew Bible

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Covenant

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Mutual promise between God and the founder of Hebrew people

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Moses

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The man who led the Hebrews out of slavery

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Ten Commandments

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  • stone tablet given to Moses on mount Sinai

- basis for civil Jewish law

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Judaism

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Religion of he Hebrew people

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Israel

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Name of the kingdom in which the Jews united under 3 kings: Saul, David, and Solomon

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Babylonian Captivity

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  • Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar conquered the Assyrians
  • Babylonians destroyed the temple of Soloman
  • Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylonians and allowed 40,000 exiles to rebuild temple

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