Ancient India Accomplishments

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Across
  1. 7. people who write
  2. 9. ____ was thrown into stepwells in some areas after they fell into disuse
  3. 11. ancient collection of sacred text
  4. 13. an important writer from the Gupta period
  5. 15. essential part in the religious and social lives of people in India
  6. 16. a lot of religious art was carved from/in ____
  7. 17. founder of Buddhism
  8. 21. another word for a number or symbol
  9. 24. the country that occupied India and found stepwells unsanitary
  10. 26. another word for scientist who specializes in metal
  11. 28. consists of many battles
  12. 29. to get to the bottom of a stepwell you must descend a ____
  13. 30. a flap of skin was cut from here to preform an Indian nose job
Down
  1. 1. the steel from ancient India was exported in the form of these
  2. 2. what happened to some Hindu religious inscriptions
  3. 3. zero enabled the Indians to study higher ____
  4. 4. the type of metal used for weapons like the Damascus sword
  5. 5. name of the emperor who got an Indian nose job after his was cut off
  6. 6. aka gods or goddesses
  7. 8. noses were a ____ symbol of pride and common targets in battle
  8. 10. also called a nose job
  9. 12. ancient surgeon and author of a Sanskrit text detailing surgical procedures
  10. 14. Indians called negative numbers ____
  11. 18. what Indians called positive numbers
  12. 19. the first or these were only placeholders
  13. 20. people went to dance, sing, and socialize (often celebrating something)
  14. 22. he asks Krishna questions and prepares for battle in the Bhagavad Gita
  15. 23. the steel was being produced at almost what scale
  16. 25. earliest known ____ reference to steel in ancient India
  17. 27. some stepwells were used as ____