Indo-European Migrations
In Aryan society, a member of the social class made up of priests ...
Answer: Brahmin.
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-Aryan laborers or craftsmen ...
Answer: caste.
An arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Asia Minor. ab. 350 mi. wide ...
Answer: Aegean Sea.
The liberator of the Hebrews of Egypt, leader throughout the years of the desert sojourn, founder of Israel’s theocracy, and, according to tradition, its first lawgiver ...
Answer: Moses.
An Indo-European people who settled in Anatolia around 2000 B.C. ...
Answer: Hittites.
In Hinduism and Buddhism, the totality of the good and bad deeds performed by a person, which is believed to determine his or her fate after rebirth ...
Answer: karma.
A seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of Crete from about 2000 to 1400 B.C. ...
Answer: Minoans.
A kingdom of the united Hebrews in Palestine, lasting from about 1020 to 922 B.C.; later, the northernmost of the two Hebrew kingdoms; now the Jewish nation that was established in Palestine in 1948 ...
Answer: Israel.
A great Indian epic poem, reflecting the struggles of the Aryans as they moved south into India ...
Answer: Mahabharata.
“The Enlightened One,” a title applied esp. to the great religious teacher, variously known as Siddhartha and Gautama (or Gotama), or Sakyamuni, who flourished in India about the 6th century B.C., regarded by his followers as the latest of a series of teachers (Buddhas) possessing perfect enlightenment and wisdom ...
Answer: Buddha.
A seafaring people of Southwest Asia, who around 1100 B.C., began to trade and found colonies throughout the Mediterranean region ...
Answer: Phoenicians.
The first of the great patriarchs, father of Isaac, and traditional founder of the Hebrew people ...
Answer: Abraham.
A group of semi-nomadic peoples who, about 1700 B.C., began to migrate from what is now southern Russia to the Indian subcontinent, Europe, and Southwest Asia ...
Answer: Indo-Europeans.
In Buddhism, the release from pain and suffering achieved after enlightenment ...
Answer: nirvana.
A ruined city in Crete: capital of the ancient Minoan civilization ...
Answer: Knossos.
The ancient region, included in modern Palestine (now Israel and Jordan), lying between the Jordan, the Dead Sea, and the Mediterranean: the land promised to God by Abraham ...
Answer: Canaan.
Four collections of sacred writings produced by the Aryans during an early stage of their settlement in India ...
Answer: Vedas.
In Hinduism and Buddhism, the process by which a soul is reborn again until it achieves perfect understanding ...
Answer: reincarnation.
Gk. Myth. son of Zeus, and king and lawgiver of Crete: after death, a judge in the lower world ...
Answer: Minos.
An ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean. Also, Holy Land. Biblical name, Canaan ...
Answer: Palestine.