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WH1 Vocab #3
Peoples & Ideas on the Move
Term | Definition |
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Indo-Europeans | Group of Asian peoples who migrated to many different places |
Steppes | Dry grasslands |
Migration | Movement of people from one place to another |
Hittites | Group of Indo-European peoples who occupied Anatolia, made iron weapons |
Anatolia | Large peninsula in modern-day Turkey |
Aryans | Group of Indo-Europeans that invaded Indian sub-continent |
Vedas | Sacred literature of the Aryans |
Reincarnation | Belief that the soul is reborn |
Karma | Good or bad deeds that determine how you reincarnate |
Siddhartha Gautama | Founder of Buddhism |
Nirvana | Buddha’s word for release from selfishness and pain |
Aegean Sea | Sea between modern-day Greece & Turkey |
Phoenicians | Most powerful traders along the Mediterranean |
Canaan | Ancient home of the Israelites |
Torah | Holy book of the Hebrews (Jewish people) |
Abraham | “Father” or first of the Jewish people |
Monotheism | Belief in a single god |
Covenant | Mutual promise between god & the Jewish people |
Moses | According to the Torah, the man that led the Jews out of slavery |
Tribute | Payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power |