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The Indo-Europeans
Indo-European Languages
The Hittites
The Aryans
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The Indo-European tribes probably originated in this area.
What is the steppes north of the Caucasus Mountains.
100
This language is the ancestor of languages spoken today by half the world's population.
What is (Proto)-Indo-European?
100
Indo-European speakers who settled in Anatolia.
Who are the Hittites?
100
The Aryans left their homeland to the west and conquered the northern plains of this country.
What is India?
200
The Indo-Europeans lived this kind of lifestyle.
What is nomadic?
200
English belongs to this branch of the Indo-European Language family.
What is Germanic?
200
This secret weapon allowed the Hittites to perfect the technology of war.
What is iron (or chariots)?
200
Though they established kingdoms in India, originally they lived this lifestyle.
What are pastoral nomads?
300
These were animals herded by the Indo-Europeans.
What are cattle, sheep, and goats. They also tamed horses and used them to pull chariots.
300
Romance languages such as French, Spanish, and Italian are directly descended from this Italic language.
What is Latin?
300
Though their native labguage was Indo-European, the Hittites used this language for international trade.
What is Akkadian?
300
The Aryans originally created the caste system to regulate contact between themselves and non-Aryans, including these.
What are the Dasas?
400
The Indo-European tribes that migrated into India.
What are Aryans?
400
They deduced the existence of the Indo-European people and their languages from comparing modern labguages.
What are philologists (or linguists, or linguistic scholars)
400
The capital of the Hittite empire.
What is Hattusas?
400
The sacred literature of the Aryans was later collected and preserved in this collection of spells, prayers, and poems.
What are the Vedas?
500
1700-1200 BC
When were the main Indo-European migrations?
500
The Manx, Tocharian, and Hittite languages have this in common.
What are extinct Indo-Ruropean languages?
500
They signed a peace treaty with the Hittites when neither could defeat the other in a war over northern Syria.
Who are the Egyptians.
500
This epic poem recalls the internal struggles f the Aryans, which began around 1000 BC.
What is the "Mahabharata"?