World History-Chapter 9 Review

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Across
  1. 2. seasonal winds that bring warm, wet weather necessary for crops to grow
  2. 3. a dome-shaped structure erected as a Buddhist shrine.
  3. 7. the belief that actions in this life, whether good or bad, will decide your place in the next life.
  4. 8. to move from one country or region to another and settle there
  5. 9. a religion based on the Four Noble Truths and the idea that spiritual truth led to inner peace
  6. 11. the principle of nonviolence toward all living things
  7. 13. a group of similar languages that share common origins
  8. 14. bands of nomad farmers from Europe and Asia who migrated to India
  9. 16. a religion native to India, featuring belief in many gods and reincarnation
  10. 18. lowest class of people in the caste system of India; performed the work that the other groups would not
  11. 19. a subgroup of one of the castes that usually consisted of people working in the same occupation.
  12. 20. the process by which a soul is reborn continuously until it achieves perfect understanding
Down
  1. 1. the four social classes of ancient India: Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra; also known as the Caste System
  2. 4. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
  3. 5. an important work of literature contained in the Mahabharata
  4. 6. an Indian faith that taught that the way to nirvana was through nonviolence and extreme poverty
  5. 10. in Hindu belief, a person's religious and moral duties
  6. 12. a large landmass that forms a distinct part of a continent
  7. 15. classical language of India, developed by the Aryans after they settled there
  8. 17. prince who led an Aryan tribe in India