1. CHAPTER 3
ASSESSMENT
People and Ideas on
the Move
2000 B.C.-250 B.C.

2. TERMS AND NAMES
• Indo-Europeans.
• They were a group of nomadic peoples
who migrated into Europe, India and
Southwest Asia and interacted with
peoples living there.

3. Caste
• 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-Aryans people or
craftsmen.

4. Reincarnation
• In Hinduism and Buddhism, the process
by which a soul is reborn continuously
until it achieves perfect understanding.

5. Siddharta Gautama
• The founder of Buddhism.
• Take a look at his life.
• SIDDHARTA GAUTAMA

6. Minoans
• A seafaring and trading people that lived
on the island of Crete from about 2000 to
1400 B.C.

7. Phoenicians
• A seafaring people of Southwest Asia,
who around 1100 B.C. began to trade and
established colonies throughout the
Mediterranean region.

8. Monotheism
• A belief in a single god.

9. Moses
• The man who led the Hebrews out of
slavery.

10. Main Ideas
• What are the three reasons that historians
give to explain why Indo-Europeans migrated?
– War
– Disease
– Climatic change

11. What are two technologies that helped the
Hittites build the empire?
• Chariot design
• Iron smelting

12. • How were the Aryans different from the non-
Aryans (classes) that they encountered when
they migrated to India?
– Aryans spoke a different language.
– Were physically different.
– No system of writing.
– Were a pastoral people.

13. • In Hinduism how are the ideas of
karma, reincarnation and moksha connected?
– In Hinduism, an individual soul passes from one
incarnation to another until it achieves
moksha, which is perfect understanding.
– A soul’s karma is the sum of its good and bad
deeds.
– Karma determines the reincarnation (rebirths) a
soul will experience.

14. What did the Minoans export?
• Goods such as
– Pottery
– Swords
– Figurines
– Architecture
– Burial customs
– Religious rituals