Chapter 3 Vocabulary

rebirth

Buddha's word for release from selfishness and pain

social classes in India

"father" of the Hebrew people

means wisdom

a soul's good and/or bad deeds

a group of Indo-European speakers who occupied Anatolia (Turkey)

belief in one god

the founder of Buddhism

the first five books of the Hebrew Bible

named by the Romans for or after the Philistines

the group of nomadic peoples who came from the steppes

a mutual promise of agreement

the sacred literature of the Aryans

movements of people from one region to another, happening in waves over long periods of time

a group of people whose homeland was probably somewhere between the Caspian and Aral seas

ancient home of the Hebrews

one of the three Aryan/Hindu social classes(priests)

a great epic of India; shows the struggles that took place in India 

dry grasslands that stretched north of the Caucasus Mountains