Unit 8 | South Asia | Vocab | Vol. II

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Across
  1. 3. cut off from others, separation or being set apart from others
  2. 5. a religion founded in Saudi Arabia in the early 500s CE.
  3. 7. the leader at the height of the Mauryan Empire, around 250 BCE
  4. 8. a famous building built as a tomb for Shah Jahan's wife in India in the 1600s.
  5. 10. a religion started in India in the late 1400s C.E.
  6. 16. the nonviolent disobeying of laws
  7. 18. refers to the division of South Asia into the independent countries of India and Pakistan
  8. 19. a social structure in India composed of four main levels, which started by the Aryans
Down
  1. 1. the practice of one country directly ruling and developing trade in a foreign territory for its own benefit
  2. 2. the birth of the soul into another physical life
  3. 4. a set of stories, traditions, and beliefs
  4. 6. a religion founded in 525 BCE in India by Siddhartha Gautama
  5. 9. religion practiced by ore than 60 percent of the population of South Asia
  6. 11. related to the first urban civilization in South Asia along the Indus River around 2600 BCE
  7. 12. the language of the Aryans, which became the basis for many languages in South Asia
  8. 13. a religion in northwest India started in the late 500s CE
  9. 14. nomads who migrated from Central Asia into the Indus Valley around 2000 BCE
  10. 15. a god or goddess
  11. 17. one of the holy books of Hinduism. It was written about 2,000 years ago
  12. 20. a group of peoples or states ruled by a strong single ruler