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People&Ideas on Move
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Indo-Europeans | A group of nomadic peoples who may have come from the steppes and settled in India |
| Brahmin | Aryan priests, top of the caste system |
| Vedas | Aryan sacred literature. 4 collections of prayer, magical spells and instructions for performing literature |
| Aryans | Indo-European people that crossed over the NW mountain passes into the Indus River Valley |
| Caste | The 4 major groups in the Aryan hierarchy, renamed from "Varnas," by the Portugese in the 1400s |
| Mahbarata | One of the great epics of India that reflects the struggles that took place in India |
| Reincarnation | Rebirth, the Indian/Buddhist/Hindu belief that an individual soul or spirit is born again until moksha (understanding) of the relationship between atman and Brahman |
| Karma | Good or bad deeds that follows from one reincarnation to another |
| Jainism | One of 2 religions that rose from speculation in the Upanishads, founded by Mahavira |
| Siddhartha Guatama | The founder of Buddhism (Buddha) |
| Nirvana | Buddha's word for release from selfishness and pain that could be reached by following the Eightfold path |
| Four noble truths | Buddha's four main ideas that he had come to understand in his enlightenment |
| Eightfold path | The path Buddhists would follows to overcome desire |
| Palestine | Where the Phoneicans and Hebrews lived |
| Canaan | The ancient home of the Hebrews |
| Torah | The first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible, the most sacred writings in Jewish tradition |
| Abraham | Who God chose to be the "father" of the Hebrew people |
| Monotheism | The belief in one god |
| Polytheism | The belief in multiple gods |
| Covenant | A mutual promise or agreement, especially one between God and Hebrew people like in the Bible |
| Moses | The man who led the Hebrews out of slavery |
| Tribute | A payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power to obtain an assurance of peace and security |
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