The Indo Europeans

Why the Indo-Europeans started to migrate?

• Natural disaster

• War

• Religious conflict

• No one knows

The Info-European peoples that migrated from the steppes were mainly?

• traders

• herders

• hunters

• farmers

The Hittites occupied Anatolia (Asia Minor), a huge peninsula in modern-day?

• Greece

• Turkey

• Phoenicia

• Assyria

This is the process by which people or groups of people move from their home area to a new area.

• Steppes
• Migration
• Diffusion

This is a huge peninsula also known as Asia Minor.

• Indo-Europeans
• Anatolia
• Aryania
• Hittites

What does pastoral mean?

• related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle

• related to the keeping of chickens

• related to the growing of crops

What other civilizations used the chariot? (mark all correct answers)

• China

• Egypt

• Indus

• Mesopotamia

What was the capital of the Hittite empire?

• Hattusas

• Babylon

• Akkad

• Thebes

From about 1700 to 1200 B.C., waves of Indo-European nomads migrated from their homelands in the ​ (a)   , the dry grasslands north of the ​ (b)   Mountains. One group, the Hittites, settled in ​ (c)   , a rugged peninsula in a region today called Turkey. They conquered ​ (d)   , the chief city in the Tigris-Euphrates valley, signed a peace treaty with ​ (e)   , and blended many of their traditions with the more advanced Mesopotamian culture.

• steppes
• Caucasus
• Anatolia
• Babylonia
• Egypt
• steps
• Indo European

With their superior two-wheeled ​ (a)   and their war weapons made of ​ (b)   , the Hittites created an empire that dominated Southwest Asia for over 450 years.

• chariots
• iron
• carts
• bronze