Indo-Europeans Question 1

1. Indo-Europeans- The languages of Indo-Europeans were the ancestors of many of the modern languages of Europe
2. Steppes- they needed cattle, sheep, and goats and the Caucasus
3. Migration- they had a problem so they had to migrate or in other words
   movements of a people from one region to another, happened in waves over a long period of time.
4. Hittites- they occupied Babylon, the chief city in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, and struggled with Egypt for control of northern Syria.
5. Anatolia- Has Nearby mountains that holds important mineral deposits.The city of Hattusas was its capital.
6. Aryans- settled in India, they developed closer contacts with non-Aryans. To regulate those contacts, the Aryans made class restrictions more rigid. also it had the caste system, and that was extremly inportant to the Aryans.
7. Vedas- Whats significant about vedas is that The most important of the collections is the Rig Veda.The Rig Veda contains 1,028 hymns to Aryan gods. For many years, no written
   form of the Vedas existed. Instead, elders of one generation passed on this tradition
   orally to the next generation.
8. Brahmin-the important things about Brahmin is that it had priests, warriors, and peasants or traders.
9. Caste- The caste membership determined the work they did, the man or woman they could marry, and the people with whom they could eat. Cleanliness and purity became all-important becuase Those considered the most impure because of their work (butchers, gravediggers,
   collectors of trash). they lived outside the caste structure. They were known as “untouchables,”
   since even their touch endangered the ritual purity of others.
10. Mahabharata- reflects the struggles that took place in India as the Aryans moved south. Elements of the indicate that a blending of cultures was taking place between Aryan and non-Aryan peoples.