Vocabulary
Hittities
Aryans
Minoans
Phoenicians
100
Steppes
What is dry grassland?
100
Technology of war
What did the Hitties excell in?
100
The Vedas left a fairly valuable picture of Aryan life.
What was the Aryans sacred literature?
100
Crete
What was the large island the Minoans lived on?
100
Shipbuilders and seafarers.
What were the Phoenicians remarkable at?
200
Migration
What is the movement of people from one place to another?
200
Chariot
What did the Hittities use that was light and easy to maneuver, even at high speeds.
200
They were taller, lighter skinned and spoke a different language than the Indian people.
What did the Aryans look like?
200
Pottery, swords, figurines, and vessels of precious metals.
What did the Minoans trade?
200
Along the northern coast ao Africa and the coasts of Sicily, Sardinia and Spain.
Where did the Phoenicians build colonies?
300
Indo-European
Who are a group of seminomadic people who came from the steppes north of Caucasus?
300
Iron ore and wood
What did the Hittities use to make charcoal?
300
Brahmins (priests), warriors, and peasants and traders.
What was the Aryans caste system?
300
Showed the Minoans as graceful, athletic people who loved nature and beutiful objects.
What did the wall paintings depict?
300
Carthage in North Africa.
What was the greatest Phoenician colony?
400
Mahabharata
What is a great epic of India that reflects the struggles that took place in India as the Aryans moved relentlessly south?
400
Ideas about literature, art, politics, and law.
What did the Hittities borrow from the Mesopotamian people?
400
The untouchables (butchers, grave diggers, collectors of trash)
Who were the most impure?
400
The great mother Earth goddess.
Who seemed to have ruled over the other gods of Crete?
400
Murex, a kind of snail that lived in the waters off Sidon and Tyre.
What was the famous purple dye made from?
500
Minoans
Who are the powerful seafaring people who dominated trade in the eastern Mediterranean?
500
Similar to Hammurabi's code, but more forgiving.
What were the Hittities laws like?
500
Magadha
What was the major kingdom called?
500
Turned it into a kind of "stepping stone" for cultural exchange throughout the Mediterranean world.
What did trading do for Crete?
500
The first two sounds of the Phoenicians alphabet; aleph and beth.
Where does the word alphabet come from?
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