Ancient India
Across
- 3. The religion spread by Ashoka through travelling teachers and stone pillars by roadsides
- 4. The concept and digit needed in order for modern technology to exist
- 6. The movement of one's Self from one body or life into another
- 8. What the Aryans did after migrating to the Indus Valley and mixing with the Indus Valley peoples
- 9. Buddhism's Eightfold Path says not to tell stories about others or to spread lies about them. AKA "Do not..."
- 11. The bottom of the caste system, usually manual laborers
- 12. The practice of nonviolence toward all living things taught in Jainism
- 13. The top of the caste system, usually priests or teachers
- 14. The Indian leader who built roads and trade routes and provided for his people
Down
- 1. The reason people settled in the Indus Valley instead of elsewhere in India
- 2. An Indian teacher, usually a spiritual guide
- 5. The ancient Indian text that details the search for the universal spirit Brahman
- 7. The religion that teaches the idea that doing one's dharma and earning good karma will allow you to be reincarnated into a better caste in your next life
- 10. The empire whose advancements in math and creation of the concept of zero allowed for improved trade and the ability to quantify scientific understanding
- 12. The group who adopted the Gupta Empire's number system and, eventually, taught it to Europeans.