Chapter 7

2. a language of southern India
7. the first empire in India founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 321 B.C.
10. A sect of Buddhism that offers salvation to all and allows popular worship
13. a recognition o peoples right to hold differing religious beliefs
14. a Hindu god considered the destroyer of the world
15. a system of ancient caravan routes across central Asia along with traders carried silk and other trade goods
16. mounded stone structures built over Buddhist holy relics
17. relating to a social system in which the mother is head of the family
18. a sect of Buddhism focusing on the strict spiritual discipline originally advocated by the Buddha
19. the administrative departments of a government especially those in which employees are hired on the basis of their scores on examinations
20. A group's exclusive control over the production and distribution of certain goods

1. Hindu god considered the preserver of the world
3. the adoption of conqueror's culture by a conquered people
4. a government in which power in concentrated in a central authority to which local governments are subject
5. the second empire in India
6. one of three most important Hindu gods
8. one of the greatest Indian writers
9. relating to a social system in which the father is head of the family
11. Chandragupta's grandson
12. a Chinese dynasty that ruled from 202 B.C. to A.D.9 and again from A.D. 23 to 200