Classical India
Across
- 4. similar to the Bronze Age River Valley civs, ______ helped to bring about the end of the Classical world
- 7. as compared to China, India more highly valued this class of people, crucial for trade in any civilization
- 9. India is most known in the WEST as the supplier of this commodity
- 10. this was the most important cultural "export" from India to Central, East and S.E. Asia
- 12. these folks are the reason that India did not develop a massive slave society as other Classical civs
- 13. this group of nomadic peoples helped to bring about the decline of the Han, Romans, and Gupta Dynasties and the end of the Classical Age
- 14. the learning of the _____ contributed to Gupta scientific advancements...brought to India by a "great" Classical conqueror
- 15. considered the Indian "Golden Age"...trade contemporaries with Rome
Down
- 1. this concept of the journey of the soul is shared in Hinduism and Buddhism
- 2. the Aryans began this religion that would dominate India to the present day
- 3. the "foreign" dynasty ruling over India from modern Afghanistan, Buddhist dynasty
- 5. ancient "university town" of the Gupta Dynasty
- 6. the ___ ___ provided the cultural glue that held Indian society together, therefore its the LEAST centralized of the Classical civs
- 8. this was the first unified Indian Dynasty of history
- 11. Buddhism begins to thrive under official government sanction under this ruler of the Mauryans