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CHAPTER 3ASSESSMENT

People and Ideas on the Move

2000 B.C.-250 B.C.

TERMS AND NAMES

• Indo-Europeans.• They were a group of nomadic peoples

who migrated into Europe, India and Southwest Asia and interacted with peoples living there.

Caste

• One of the four classes of people in the social system of the Aryans who settled in India—priests, warriors, peasants or traders, and non-Aryans people or craftsmen.

Reincarnation

• In Hinduism and Buddhism, the process by which a soul is reborn continuously until it achieves perfect understanding.

Siddharta Gautama

• The founder of Buddhism.• Take a look at his life.• SIDDHARTA GAUTAMA

Minoans

• A seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of Crete from about 2000 to 1400 B.C.

Phoenicians

• A seafaring people of Southwest Asia, who around 1100 B.C. began to trade and established colonies throughout the Mediterranean region.

Monotheism

• A belief in a single god.

Moses

• The man who led the Hebrews out of slavery.

Main Ideas

• What are the three reasons that historians give to explain why Indo-Europeans migrated?– War– Disease– Climatic change

What are two technologies that helped the Hittites build the empire?

• Chariot design• Iron smelting

• How were the Aryans different from the non-Aryans (classes) that they encountered when they migrated to India?– Aryans spoke a different language.– Were physically different.– No system of writing.– Were a pastoral people.

• In Hinduism how are the ideas of karma, reincarnation and moksha connected?– In Hinduism, an individual soul passes from one

incarnation to another until it achieves moksha, which is perfect understanding.

– A soul’s karma is the sum of its good and bad deeds.

– Karma determines the reincarnation (rebirths) a soul will experience.

What did the Minoans export?

• Goods such as– Pottery– Swords– Figurines – Architecture– Burial customs– Religious rituals