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What are the STEPPES?
Dry grasslands inhabited by herders that stretched north of the Caucasus.
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What is KARMA?
Good and bad fortune earned in another life.
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What is CRETE?
Trading turned this island into the "stepping stone" of cultural exchange throughout the mediterranean.
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What is a COVENANT?
Mutual promise between God and the founder of the Hebrew people.
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Who are TRADERS/MISSIONARIES?
The crucial role played by these people helped spread the word of Buddha's teachings.
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Who are the ARYANS?
People responsible for transforming India around 2000 BC.
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What is NIRVANA/MOKSHA
The release of selfishness and pain achieved by following the Eightfold Path.
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What is the PHONETIC/ALPHABET?
System that used symbols to represent sounds.
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Who is NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
Babylonian King who twice attacked Israel.
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What is ENLIGHTENMENT?
Siddhartha Gautama wandered through the forest for 6 years seeking this state of wisdom.
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What is ANATOLIA?
Home of the Hittites in modern-day Turkey that borders the Black and Mediterranean seas.
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What is JAINISM?
Mahavira founded this religion.
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What is LEBANON?
The Phoenician city-states Byblos, Tyre and Sidon were located in this modern day country.
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Who is SOLOMON?
Child of King David and Bathsheba.
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What are SNAILS?
The Phoenicians used 60,000 of these to produce a pound of deep red-purple dye.
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What is the MAHABHARATA?
Epic literary work that reflected the struggles of Aryan kings attempts to control Indian lands.
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Who are WOMEN?
The people Buddha reluctantly admitted to attend religious orders.
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What are GREEKS?
Invaders from this neighboring country may have been responsible for the Minoan's disappearance.
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What is Hammurabi's code?
Code of law similar to the Ten Commandments.
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What is PASSOVER?
Annual Jewish festival to remember Mose's exodus from Egypt.
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What are PRIESTS, WARRIORS, TRADERS, PEASANTS, LANDOWNERS, RULERS, LABORERS, BRAHMIN, KSHATRIYAS, VAISHYAS, SHUDRAS.
3 different groups/occupations within the caste system. (listed in the book)
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What is 49?
The number of days Siddhartha Gautama meditated under a fig tree on his path to enlightenment.
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What is L A B Y R I N T H?
Correct spelling of the word for the structure that held King Minos's Minotaur.
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What are ....?
5 of the Ten Commandments.
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What are ENGLISH, SANSKRIT, PERSIAN, SPANISH, GERMAN?
2 of the 5 listed language families Indo-Europeans have said to have influenced over the ages.
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