Ancient India Terms & Facts

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Across
  1. 3. system Social categories that determined a person's position
  2. 5. When you practice ______ you achieve wisdom, ultimate reality, and reunite with the Great Soul
  3. 8. Less than 1% of this religion is still practiced in modern-day India
  4. 10. The idea that a person's actions will determine their next life is called ______
  5. 11. Warrior and military elite. Second highest social class
  6. 13. The river that the earliest Indian civilization depended on
  7. 14. A large landmass that is like a small cotinent
  8. 17. A mountain range that extends through Northern India
  9. 20. Farmers and merchants. Second lowest social class
  10. 21. Seasonal winds in ancient India's climate
  11. 22. Top position in the caste system
  12. 23. Indo-european people that migrated to India
  13. 24. Aryan leaders or princes
Down
  1. 1. A leader who protested the British through ahisma
  2. 2. Divine law that requires people to do their duty is called ______
  3. 4. kush A mountain range along the NW border of India
  4. 6. The belief that when a person dies, their soul goes onto a new life
  5. 7. The four major social classes in Ancient India were called ______
  6. 9. Lowest level. Did the jobs no one else wanted to do
  7. 12. A major religious system that consists of multiple gods
  8. 15. Means "nonviolence"
  9. 16. A written language developed around 1000 BC
  10. 18. Mostly peasants. Most populated class. Lower than vaisyas
  11. 19. ______ is one of the most beloved and worshipped gods