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The Indo-EuropeansSection Assessment7F Social Studies
TERMS AND NAMES
• Indo-Europeans– A group of nomadic peoples who
may have come from the steppes.
steppes
• Dry grasslands that stretched north of the Caucasus mountains.
migrations
• Movements of a people from one region to another.
Hittites
• An Indo-European people who settled in Anatolia round 2000 BC
Anatolia
• A huge peninsula in modern-day Turkey, it is also called Asia Minor.
Aryans
• An Indo-European people who, about 1500 BC, began to migrate into the Indian subcontinent.
Vedas
• Four collections of sacred writings produced by the Aryans during an early stage of their settlement in India.
Brahmin
• A member of the social class made up of priests in the Aryan society.
caste
• One of four classes of people in the social syste of the Aryans who settled in India – priests, wariors, peasants or traders, and non-Aryan laborers or craftsmen.
Caste
Mahabharata
• A great Indian epic poem, reflecting the struggles of the Aryans as they moved south to India.
2. Why did so many languages originate from Indo-European roots?– Indo-Europeans migrated into Europe
and Asia.
English Spanish Indo-Europeans
Persian Greek
• What were some of the technological achievements of the Hittites?– Better chariots, iron weapons.
• What were some of the borrowings of the Hittites?– Akkadian language, Mesopotamian
literature, art, politics and law.
• Where do some historians think the Aryans lived before they arrived to India?– Northwest of India.
• What important contributions did the Aryans make to the culture and way of life in India in terms of religion, literature, and roles in society?– Cast system, the Vedas,
Mahabharata.
• What made the Hittite chariot an excellent fighting machine?– They were light, fast, easy to
maneuver, pulled by two or four horses, space for driver and archer.
• What were some of the differences between the Aryans and de dasas in India?– Aryians were taller, lighter, Indo-
Europeans language, no writing, pastoral, higher social class; dasas the opposite.