3.1 - The Indo-Europeans

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Indo-Europeans

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a group of nomadic peoples who may have come from the dry grasslands that stretched north of the Caucasus Mountains

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steppes

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dry grasslands

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migration

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movement of people from one region to another

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Hittites

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Indo-Europeans who occupied Anatolia

(Asia Minor)

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How did environmental features in Anatolia help the Hittites advance technologically?

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The raw materials they needed—iron ore and wood to make charcoal—were easily available to them in the mountains of Anatolia.

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Aryans

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Indo-European people who migrated into India

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Vedas

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sacred literature of the Aryans

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hierarchy

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a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.

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Brahmin

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highest level in the caste system

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caste

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social groups arranged in a hierarchy