India

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Across
  1. 5. The study of stars and planets.
  2. 8. A traditional guide to medicine, diet, exercise, and disease, developed and remains an alternative form of healing.
  3. 9. The greatest poet in Chandra Gupta II’s court and one of India’s greatest writers.
  4. 13. First ruler of the Maurya Empire - unified India after Alex. the Great left.
  5. 14. The science of working with metals.
  6. 16. Abstaining from eating meat based on the principle of ahimsa.
  7. 17. "Fragrance" or "perfume".
Down
  1. 1. The numbers we use today.
  2. 2. "Napoleon of India". He expanded the Gupta Empire across much of the Indian subcontinent, unified various regions.
  3. 3. Injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help build up defenses to a disease.
  4. 4. Founder of the Gupta Empire.
  5. 6. Darma.
  6. 7. (321-185 BCE) This was the first centralized empire of India whose founder was Chandragupta Maurya.
  7. 10. Grandson of Chandragupta; most honored emperor for his commitment to spreading peace and prosperity to all; was buddhist but accepted other religions; decline came after his death.
  8. 11. Emptiness.
  9. 12. Golden Age of India; ruled through central government but allowed village power; restored Hinduism.
  10. 15. Period of cultural achievement.