Chapter 3

They were a group of nomadic peoples who may have come from the steppes

• Brahmin

• Indo-Europeans

• Aryans

This is dry grasslands that stretched north of the Caucasus

• Vedas

• Karma

• Steppes

What group of Indo-European speakers, that occupied Anatolia

• Hittites

• Aryans

• Brahmin

Another Indo-European people, whose homeland was probably somewhere between the Caspian and Aral seas, crossed over the northwest mountain passes into the Indus River Valley of India.

• Minoans

• Hittites

• Aryans

They dominated trade in the eastern Mediterranean from about 2000 to 1400 B.C and lived on Crete.

• Minoans

• Knossos

• Canaan

After Crete’s decline, the most powerful traders along the Mediterranean are the.....

• Minoans

• Phoenicians

• Canaan

A region at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea where the Phoenicians lived

• Anatolia

• Knossos

• Palestine

They are four collections of prayers, magical spells, and instructions for performing rituals. The most important of the collections is the Rig Veda.

• Vedas

• Nirvana

• Enlightenment

The king who owned a half-human, half-bull monster called the Minotaur

• Siddhartha Gautama

• Abraham

• King Minos

Belief in a single god

• polytheism

• monotheism

• Covenant