China and India Definitions

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Across
  1. 3. major trade route from europe to china
  2. 5. In Buddhism the ultimate reality, the end of the self and a reunion with the great world soul
  3. 6. a system of ideas based on the teachings of Laozi; teaches the will of heaven is best followed through inaction so that nature is allowed to take its course
  4. 7. founded by Chandragupta Maurya, ruled almost the entire indian subcontinent
  5. 8. the most ancient Hindu scriptures written in early sanskrit and containing hymns, philosophy, and guidance
  6. 9. founder of Confucianism
  7. 10. the truth of suffering, the truth of the origin of suffering, the truth of cessation of suffering, the truth of the path to the cessation of suffering
  8. 16. the rules of how to live in Hinduism
  9. 17. Indian emperor of the Maurya dynasty who ruled almost all of the India subcontinent
  10. 18. the first writing system of the arians
  11. 20. a seasonal wind pattern in southern asia that brings heavy rains
Down
  1. 1. class system used in Hinduism
  2. 2. also known as the Yellow River
  3. 4. claim by the Chinese kings of the Zhou dynasty that they had direct authority to rule and to keep order in the universe
  4. 11. the enlightened one, Siddhartha Gautama
  5. 12. the rebirth of an individual’s soul in a different form after death
  6. 13. an imperial dynasty that ruled China, it was a bureaucracy
  7. 14. the highest rank of the caste system
  8. 15. lowest of the 4 Hindu castes
  9. 19. is used to describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world; and, how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.