Global- Chap 3

Question 0

Hitties

Answer 0

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

Question 1

Indo- Europeans

Answer 1

Group of nomadic people who came from the stepped

Question 2

Aryan

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Vedas

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Upanishads

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Reincarnation

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Moksha

Answer 6

• State of perfect understanding of all things

- HINDUISM

Question 7

Karma

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Dharma

Answer 8

Duty

Question 9

Caste System

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Siddhartha Gautama

Answer 10

Founder of Buddhism

Question 11

Nirvana

Answer 11

Buddha’s word for release from selfishness and pain

Question 12

Minoans

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Knossos

Answer 13

Minoan capital

Question 14

King Minos

Answer 14

• 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

Question 15

Phoenicians

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Monotheism

Answer 16

Belief in one god

Question 17

Abraham

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Hebrews

Answer 18

• homeland was Canaan

- later called the Jews

Question 19

Torah

Answer 19

First five books of Herbrew Bible

Question 20

Covenant

Answer 20

Mutual promise between God and the founder of Hebrew people

Question 21

Moses

Answer 21

The man who led the Hebrews out of slavery

Question 22

Ten Commandments

Answer 22

• stone tablet given to Moses on mount Sinai

- basis for civil Jewish law

Question 23

Judaism

Answer 23

Religion of he Hebrew people

Question 24

Israel

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Babylonian Captivity

Answer 25

- 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