India and Southeast Asia; 1500 BCE- 600 CE

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Across
  1. 2. An indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama who renounced his wealth and social position.
  2. 6. 4 major social divisions in India; Brahmin priest class, Kshatriya warrior class, Vaishya merchant class, Shudra laborer class.
  3. 7. Hindu concept of a spirit's "liberation" from the endless cycle of rebirths.
  4. 8. Vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in India.
  5. 9. "Great Vehicle" focused on reverence for Buddha and bodhisattvas (enlightened people who have postponed nirvana)
  6. 10. Early Indian sacred knowledge; religious texts.
  7. 11. Wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity.
  8. 12. Acquires prestige and power by developing attractive cultural froms and staging elaborate public ceremonies.
  9. 14. Powerful Indian state based, on a capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley.
  10. 15. Seasonal winds in the Indian Oceans caused by different temps between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Africa and Asia and the slowly changing ocean waters.
  11. 16. Regional groups of people who have a common occupational sphere who marry, eat, and interact with eachother.
Down
  1. 1. "Way of Elders" downplays the importants of gods and emphasizes austerity and enlightment.
  2. 3. Indian tradition where residue of deeds adhere to a spirit who determines what form it will assume in the next life cycle.
  3. 4. Early complex society in Southeast Asia between 1st and 6th century CE.
  4. 5. Dialogue between great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.
  5. 7. Founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 BCE; first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent.
  6. 12. Kingdoms in southern India that are inhabited primarily by Dravidian speakers.
  7. 13. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India.