Across
- 1. property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage
- 3. developed by the Aryans allowing them to conquer the Indus Valley civilizations
- 5. seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, bringing rain
- 7. founded around 500 BCE, this religion is based on the ralization of Siddhartha that "all suffering is caused by selfish human desire."
- 8. great respect; reverence
- 12. relating to or characteristic of a system of society or government controlled by men and women have little to no status
- 13. religion founded around 900 BCE based on the oral traditions of the Aryans
- 14. a large, distinguishable part of a continent
Down
- 2. the rebirth of a soul in a new body
- 4. assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one
- 6. the system of dividing society into hereditary classes
- 9. transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth
- 10. a group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs from those of a larger group to which they belong
- 11. the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence