Chapter 3 Sections 1-4: Study Guide
Chapter 3- Sections 1-4
I. The Indo – Europeans
A. Indo-Europeans Migrate
1. The Indo-Europeans were a group of nomadic people who came from the steppes – dry grasslands that stretched north of the Caucasus
2. They herded sheep, cattle and goats and tamed horses
3. The modern languages of Europe, Southwest Asia, South Asia; English Spanish, Persian and Hindi all trace their origins back to different forms of the original Indo-European language
4. The Indo-Europeans began to migrate outward in all directions between 1700 and 1200 B.C
5. Migrations – movement of people from one region to another
B. The Hittite Empire
1. Anatolia is a huge peninsula in modern-day Turkey that just out into the Black and Mediterranean seas
2. Separate Hittite city-states came together to form an empire there in about 1650 B.C.
3. The Hittite empire went to dominate Southwest Asia for 450 years but signed a peace treaty, pledging to each other that they would together fight off future invaders
4. The Hittites borrowed idea about literature, art, politics and law from the Mesopotamians
5. Around 1500 B.C, the Hittites were the first in Southwest Asia to work with iron and harden it into weapons of war
6. The Hittite empire fell around the year 1190 B.C.
C. Aryans Transform India
1. The Aryans differed from the dasas (“dark”) in many different ways such as their appearance and the language they spoke.
2. They counted their wealth in cows
3. They were divided into three social classes, Brahmins (priests), warriors, peasants or traders
4. People were born into their caste for life, it determined there:
a. Role they played in society
b. What work they did
c. The man or women they could marry
d. And the people whom they could eat with
5. During the time when the Aryans were expanding east along the Ganges and Yamuna river valleys chiefs were elected by the entire tribe but around 1000 B.C, minor kings wanted to set up territorial kingdoms arose among the Aryans.
I. The Indo – Europeans
A. Indo-Europeans Migrate
1. The Indo-Europeans were a group of nomadic people who came from the steppes – dry grasslands that stretched north of the Caucasus
2. They herded sheep, cattle and goats and tamed horses
3. The modern languages of Europe, Southwest Asia, South Asia; English Spanish, Persian and Hindi all trace their origins back to different forms of the original Indo-European language
4. The Indo-Europeans began to migrate outward in all directions between 1700 and 1200 B.C
5. Migrations – movement of people from one region to another
B. The Hittite Empire
1. Anatolia is a huge peninsula in modern-day Turkey that just out into the Black and Mediterranean seas
2. Separate Hittite city-states came together to form an empire there in about 1650 B.C.
3. The Hittite empire went to dominate Southwest Asia for 450 years but signed a peace treaty, pledging to each other that they would together fight off future invaders
4. The Hittites borrowed idea about literature, art, politics and law from the Mesopotamians
5. Around 1500 B.C, the Hittites were the first in Southwest Asia to work with iron and harden it into weapons of war
6. The Hittite empire fell around the year 1190 B.C.
C. Aryans Transform India
1. The Aryans differed from the dasas (“dark”) in many different ways such as their appearance and the language they spoke.
2. They counted their wealth in cows
3. They were divided into three social classes, Brahmins (priests), warriors, peasants or traders
4. People were born into their caste for life, it determined there:
a. Role they played in society
b. What work they did
c. The man or women they could marry
d. And the people whom they could eat with
5. During the time when the Aryans were expanding east along the Ganges and Yamuna river valleys chiefs were elected by the entire tribe but around 1000 B.C, minor kings wanted to set up territorial kingdoms arose among the Aryans.