India & China

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6. Mauryan king, ruled from 269 BC-232 BC, possibly greatest ruler in Indian history
8. extends from Himalaya to Arabian Sea along which Harappa and Mohenjo Daro once stood
11. her husband died building the Great Wall of China-when she found out she “wept so loudly that miles of wall collapsed, exposing the bodies of laborers.”
14. one of the world’s largest religions, originated 2,500 years ago in India.
15. a series of events that recur regularly and usually lead back to the starting point
17. mountain range bordering Northwest India and leading into the Himalayas
19. the proper way
20. founder of the Qin dynasty (literally means “first Qin emperor”)
21. makes up almost all of the entire southern peninsula

1. large desert/brushland region of East Asia covering Northern and Northeastern China and Southern Mongola
2. belief that heaven kept order in the universe through the king
3. originated in the beliefs of the Aryans of India
4. a group who moved south across the Hindu Kush
7. known to the Chinese as the First Teacher
9. social groups
10. man who started buddhism
12. Isolated eastern kingdom
13. rigid social structure
16. system of Confucian ideas
18. a land of diverse languages, religions, people and geography