India Crossword Puzzle

3. - an explorer from Portugal encountered this social system and called the groups.
6. - the teachers' comments were later written down.
12. - movements of a people from one region to another.
14. - mutual promise between God and the founder of the Jewish people.
15. - the Minoan capital city.
16. - a dry grasslands that stretched north of the Caucasus.
19. - it is part of the Aryan groups based in occupation and priests are here.
21. - the four major group is also known as.
25. - also called as Asia Minor.
26. - also known as wisdom.
28. - a belief in a single god.
29. - the founder of Jainism.
30. - a great mother goddess.

1. - another Indo-European people whose homeland was probably somewhere between the Caspian and Aral seas.
2. - the most powerful traders along the Mediterranean.
4. - the creator.
5. - powerful seafaring people who dominated trade in the eastern Mediterranean from about 200 to 1400.
7. - the destroyer.
8. - A wall of the highest mountains in the world --- the Hindu, Kush, Karakorum, and Himalayan ranges--- seperates this region from the rest of the Asian Continent.
9. - group of nomadic people's who may have come from the steppe.
10. - group of speakers.
11. - one of the greatest epics of India.
13. - a seasonal winds that dominate India's climate.
17. - also known as the protector.
18. - the Buddha's word for release from selfishness and pain.
20. - also known as rebirth whereas an individual soul or spirit is born again and again until moksha is achieved.
22. - good or bad deeds that influences specific life circumstances.
23. - is when the person achieves the perfect understanding.
24. - they have a sacred literature that left a picture of Aryan Life.
27. - is a collection of religious beliefs that developed slowly over a long period of time.