The Indo-European

Indo-European is a term important to this section because it is a term referring to the pastoral people who would later form India’s population and is relevant to us personally because the Indo-European language would help build English, Spanish, Hindi, Persian, Sanskrit, German and more languages.

The steppes are the grasslands north or the Caucasus that the Indo-Europeans migrated from and are important as they are geographically relevant to this section and the section before; also these are the origins of many civilizations.

Migration is a term important to this section and world history in general because we did not come from the country we currently live in, our ancestors had to come from other lands and we can trace back all of humanity through migration.

Hittites were Indo-European speakers who occupied modern day Turkey and were important due to their advanced iron weapons and chariots which were technologies perfected by their people and latter spread.

Anatolia was the Hittite occupied area of what is now Asia Minor and modern day turkey, this is important in order to better understand how these ancient cultures would relate to the modern named for this region.

Aryans were important as they spread through India, left early written records, and built the views and culture of India such as the cast system.

The Vedas were early religious scripts that lead to later Hindu beliefs but most importantly historically these scripts gave us a view of what early Aryan life was like.

Brahmin is a term for the top of the cast system which is priests and is important because it conveys the values and what was important to the ancient Aryan people.

The caste system was the social structure build by the Aryans that was in India dividing the class levels or people and this was important is it was the structure of Aryan society and was also their religious belief.

Mahabharata was a great epic written about the Aryan migration and the cultural mixture or Aryan and non-Aryan people in this time and is an important historical document as it shows the events that happened and the views of the ancient people.