Ancient India
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- 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.
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- 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.