Ancient India

1. Attractive because it was based on moral conduct of the individual and had no discrimination by class.
6. In Hinduism, actions during this lifetime that influence one's level at which a person is reborn into during the next life.
9. Implied fifth, bottom-most class known also as untouchables.
10. What Siddhartha Gautama sat under when he finally achieved enlightenment through meditation.
11. Believed to be the "Emperor with a conscience" who helped spread Buddhism and believed all men were children of the emperor.

2. In Hinduism, liberation from the cycle of reincarnation.
3. Social system introduced during the Hindu or Vedic Age, 1500 to 500 BCE.
4. Empire from 320 to 185 BCE that encompassed most of the Indian subcontinent.
5. Indus Valley civilization gets its name from the Indus ______.
7. Later Hindi empire from 240 to 579 CE that was tolerant of all religions, introduced self-supporting villages, and made significant scientific advances such as the suggestion that the world was round.
8. Wandering religious teacher named Siddhartha Gautama who lived in South Asia during the 5th or 6th century BCE.