Ancient India

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Across
  1. 1. property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage
  2. 3. developed by the Aryans allowing them to conquer the Indus Valley civilizations
  3. 5. seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, bringing rain
  4. 7. founded around 500 BCE, this religion is based on the ralization of Siddhartha that "all suffering is caused by selfish human desire."
  5. 8. great respect; reverence
  6. 12. relating to or characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men and women have little to no status
  7. 13. religion founded around 900 BCE based on the oral traditions of the Aryans
  8. 14. a large, distinguishable part of a continent
Down
  1. 2. the rebirth of a soul in a new body
  2. 4. assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one
  3. 6. the system of dividing society into hereditary classes
  4. 9. transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth
  5. 10. a group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs from those of a larger group to which they belong
  6. 11. the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence