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