Ancient India

3. These Aryan writings are the basis for Hinduism.
5. The Indus River begins in these mountains.
9. system The Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas and Sudras were at different levels of this social hierarchy.
11. The husband was placed on a funeral pyre and set on fire after he died.
12. This is the oldest of religions in India.
14. These religious travelers to India drove much of the wealth during the Gupta Empire.
15. A farmer in ancient India farms and refuses to teach the Vedas or fight in battle, so he is following this.

1. Indian mathematicians created the concept of this.
2. This Indian empire ended not long after the ruler Asoka died because of a military coup.
4. The most sacred of rivers in India, which is believed to have purifying powers.
6. These helped traders sailing by sea to India during the summer.
7. The Aryans could not record their religious hymns and rituals until they invented this.
8. The goal of this belief system is to achieve nirvana.
10. Road Wheat or barley from India made its way to China and Europe along this trade route, the ____ Road.
13. The name for the raised ground in the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro along the Indus River.