Ancient India Empires

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  1. 2. Mauryan capital city
  2. 3. a person who travels to holy sites
  3. 6. Buddhist shrine shaped like a dome
  4. 8. Ashoka was the first ruler to promote this
  5. 10. an epic poem about King Rama and wife Sita with about 25,000 verses
  6. 11. first ruler of the Mauryan dynasty
  7. 13. Ashoka built these with rest houses and shade trees for travelers
  8. 14. In A.D. 320, this dynasty came to power in the Ganges River valley
  9. 15. longest ancient religious epic with 90,000 verses about heroism
  10. 18. India’s first empire
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  1. 1. Ashoka create these for people and animals
  2. 4. something without an end
  3. 5. the best-known section of the Mahabharata
  4. 7. the government of the Mauryan dynasty was this
  5. 9. what the Gupta empire did with salt, cloth, and iron
  6. 11. first ruler of the Gupta dynasty
  7. 12. proposed that the earth was round and revolved around the sun
  8. 16. Mauryan Empire reached the height of its glory under his rule
  9. 17. symbol that means nothing