World History Chap. 3
Terms
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- Steppes
- Dry grass cover plains
- Migration
- Movement of people from one region to another
- Hittites
- An Indo European people who settled in Anatolis around 2000 BC
- Anatolia
- The southwest Asian peninsula now occupied by the Asian part of Turkey
- Aryans
- An Indo-European people who, about 1500 BC began to migrate into the Indian subcontinent
- Brahmin
- In Aryan society meant Priest. Top of social class order.
- Caste
- One of four classes of people in the social system of the Aryans.
- Minoans
- Seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of Crete from about 2000 to 1400 BC
- Aegean Sea
- The seal that lies between Greece and Anatolia
- Knossos
- The Minoan capital city where remains of advance culture were found.
- King Minos
- He sacrificed children and legend says he kept a half human half bull monster called the minotaur
- Phoenicians
- Powerful seafaring traders tht lived in the area of present day Lebanon.
- Vedas
- Oldest texts that make up Hindu scriptures today.
- Dasas
- Town dwellers who lived in communities protected by walls. Dark skinned.
- Untouchables
- Know as outcasts; slaves and prisoners of war. Lowest of caste sytem.
- Mahabharata
- Great Indian epic that reflects the struggles that took place in India as the aryans moved relentlessle south.
- Minotaur
- Half human half bull monster
- Labyrinth
- Maze made by stone or hedges where in the center has a monster.
- murex
- A small snail that Phoenicians obtained purple dye from.
- alphabet
- Writing system that uses symbols to represent sounds.
- Cyrus I
- King of Persian empire that conquered the Phoenicians.
- Monsoon
- A powerful wind that affects climate by changing direction in certain seasons.
- Indo-Europeans
- A group of seminomadic peoples who about 100 BC begain to migrate to the Indian subcontinent, Europe and SW Asia*