Chapter 5: India's First Empires

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Across
  1. 2. Something that aids or promotes well-being
  2. 5. The Indian word for caste
  3. 7. The founder of Buddhism
  4. 10. The earliest known Indian literature, which contains religious chants and stories that were originally passed down from generation to generation and then eventually recorded in Sanskrit
  5. 11. Ultimate reality, the end of the self and a reunion with the Great World Soul
  6. 13. The teachings of Siddhartha Gautama into four statements about life
  7. 17. A religious doctrine introduced in northern India in the 6th century
  8. 19. The divine law that rules karma
  9. 20. A method of training developed by the Hindus that is supposed to lead to oneness with Brahman
  10. 21. The change from one belief or form to another
  11. 22. A person who travels to a shrine or holy place
  12. 23. Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer were the three chief ___ of Hinduism
  13. 25. The rebirth of an individual's soul in a different form after death
Down
  1. 1. A set of ridged categories in ancient India that determined a person's occupation and economic potential, as well as his or her position in society
  2. 3. The force generated by a person's actions that determines how the person will be reborn in the next life
  3. 4. Inflexibility set in opinion
  4. 6. The name given by Aryans in ancient India to a group of people in what was believed to be an ideal social structure of four groups
  5. 8. To commit by a solemn act
  6. 9. The major Indian religious system which had its origins in the religious beliefs of the Aryans
  7. 12. The Indian word for wisdom
  8. 14. A route between the Roman Empire and China
  9. 15. The eight steps that guide a correct view of life
  10. 16. The priestly class of ancient India
  11. 18. Release from the cycle of rebirth impelled by the law of karma
  12. 24. People who were viewed as so impure that they were outside the caste system completely