Chapter 7

3. creator of the world
5. A land of various cultures and a rich heritage. It is the seventh-largest country by area and the second-most populous country globally.
8. routes where traders used to bring silk from China to western Asia and then to Rome
11. Reincarnation in Hinduism
12. destroyer of the world
13. state of peace
14. The action of buying and selling goods and services.
15. An astronomer
17. India's second empire
20. THis city became a site of writing academies

1. Chandgragupta's grandson, brought the Mauryan to its greatest heights.
2. mounded stone structures built over holy relics
4. acceptance of people who held different religious beliefs.
6. a Dravidian language spoken by Tamils in southern India, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere. The language is more than 2,000 years old.
7. a widespread Asian religion or philosophy, founded by Siddartha Gautama in northeastern India in the 5th century BC.
9. One of India's greatest writers.
10. one of the two major traditions of Buddhism
16. was the first pan-Indian empire, an empire that covered most of the Indian region.
18. the more conservative of the two major traditions of Buddhism (the other being Mahayana), and a school of Hinayana Buddhism. It is practiced mainly in Sri Lanka, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos.
19. preserver of the world