Across
- 2. Collections of hymns, songs, prayers, and rituals honoring the various gods of the Aryans.
- 4. is the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
- 9. A large landmass that is smaller than a continent
- 10. Empire this empire possessed 600,000 soldiers and used elephants in battle
- 11. Hindu belief, a person's soul
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- 1. He rejected the caste system
- 3. Major winds in the Indian Ocean that blew into India for half the year, and blew away from India for the other half. Helped facilitate trade in the Indian Ocean.
- 5. grandson of Chandragupta; most honored emperor for his commitment to spreading peace and prosperity to all; was Buddhist but accepted other religions; sent Buddhist missionaries all over China.`
- 6. the science of working with metals
- 7. Injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help him or her build up defenses to a disease
- 8. Hinduism and Buddhism, the process by which a soul is reborn continuously until it achieves perfect understanding. Both Hinduism and Buddhism believed this was necessary for enlightenment.